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Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

Game over for preventing climate change?

The International Energy Association (IEA) has said it will be almost impossible to prevent dangerous climate change above 2 degrees without extracting greenhouse gases from the air.
Two further numbers from their annual report featured on Reuters:
$3.6 trillion - the cost of decarbonising all the world’s energy production between 2010 and 2030.
$4.0 trillion - the price paid to shore up [...]

Sustainability swingometer - Obama and optimism

The latest in my haphazard series of random musings on the future state of the globe.
So just how excited can we get at the prospect of the man who likes to say change entering the White House? Let’s hope he gets there in the first place.
I’m somewhat reminded of the heady days of 1997 when [...]