Reality: We are losing the fight against climate change
It’s time to stop kidding ourselves. Global carbon emissions are going up, not down. No surprise there. Even if they stayed flat, we’d be in a world of hurt. Even if they were halted immediately, with CO2 at 405 parts per million, planetary greenhouse warming will continue for many decades, perhaps hundreds of years.
Well, you already know that.
Of course if fossil fuel burning were stopped immediately, we’d have a world-wide depression that would make the recent Great Recession look like a garden party.
The climate change conference in early December in Katowice, Poland, accomplished the usual: not much. Politico carried a succinct summary of a largely disappointing affair, written by Kalna Oroschakoff and Paola Tamma: Climate disappointments in Katowice
The leading solution is geoengineering. Like it or not.
Is geoengineering inevitable? Just do a web search on “geoengineering inevitable” and you’ll find all sorts of smart people, realistic smart people, coming to the conclusion that without geoengineering, we’re sunk (as many coastal cities will literally become).