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Carbon Capture Won’t Save Us Anytime Soon

newrepublic.com · 5dShare

A new report from the UN Environment Program concludes that global average temperatures will soon be 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than they were in preindustrial times. The need to keep warming at or below that threshold has animated climate activists worldwide for nearly two decades, and that ambition was inscribed into the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015. Within just a few years we’ll blow right past it, or, in more technical language, “overshoot.” Without significant changes, warming looks poised to continue on toward 2.6 degrees above preindustrial times. The upshot in the UNEP report is the same as virtually every UN climate report in recent memory: Things are bad and getting worse; we aren’t going fast enough to meet our targets ; there’s still hope. This mixed-bag sentiment is basically true. There is no point at which it makes sense to give up on trying to mitigate climate change. The more greenhouse gasses are deposited into the air, the warmer and the worse it will get. The cas

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