ONLY ZERO CARBON ONLY ZERO CARBON ONLY ZERO CARBON ON LY ZERO CARBON ONLY ZERO CARBON ONLY ZERO
CORRECT THE
PERVERSE ECONOMICS
All that is needed is to correct the environmentally perverse, fatally flawed, economics that is being generally accepted and can only lead us to climatic annihilation. Without correcting the economics nothing can work.
According to a 2012 Price Waterhouse Cooper analysis- The only way to avoid the pessimistic scenarios will be radical transformations in the ways the global economy currently functions with rapid uptake of renewable energy
This has been perhaps best explained by the 2006 UK government Stern Commission's the Economics of Climate Change which in fact was a good assessment of global climate change in general.
This is arguably still the only report that identified the real root cause of continuing atmospheric greenhouse gas pollution causing global warming, climate change, and ocean acidification. The Stern Commission stated that global climate change is 'the greatest and most far-reaching market failure ever', meaning the cause is our socio environmentally perverse economics. The commission explained that the market failure was the result of an economics that did not apply the polluter pays principle allowing the greenhouse gas polluters not pay for the costs of pollution. The solution was simply to put a price on carbon pollution and impose the price on the polluter by government regulation, by taxing carbon in addition to capping carbon emissions and carbon trading.
Stern Commission also said that fossil fuel subsidies would have two be stopped. However since the Stern commission report fossil fuel subsidies have increased.
So today the very first thing that must happen is the governments to stop these suicidal fossil fuel subsidies totally and in short order. It is obviously totally impossible to decarbonise national and world economies all the time the fossil fuel industry is being subsidized to any extent.
STOP AND SWITCH
According to a 2012 Price Waterhouse Cooper analysis- The only way to avoid the pessimistic scenarios will be radical transformations in the ways the global economy currently functions with rapid uptake of renewable energy
This has been perhaps best explained by the 2006 UK government Stern Commission's the Economics of Climate Change which in fact was a good assessment of global climate change in general.
This is arguably still the only report that identified the real root cause of continuing atmospheric greenhouse gas pollution causing global warming, climate change, and ocean acidification. The Stern Commission stated that global climate change is 'the greatest and most far-reaching market failure ever', meaning the cause is our socio environmentally perverse economics. The commission explained that the market failure was the result of an economics that did not apply the polluter pays principle allowing the greenhouse gas polluters not pay for the costs of pollution. The solution was simply to put a price on carbon pollution and impose the price on the polluter by government regulation, by taxing carbon in addition to capping carbon emissions and carbon trading.
Stern Commission also said that fossil fuel subsidies would have two be stopped. However since the Stern commission report fossil fuel subsidies have increased.
So today the very first thing that must happen is the governments to stop these suicidal fossil fuel subsidies totally and in short order. It is obviously totally impossible to decarbonise national and world economies all the time the fossil fuel industry is being subsidized to any extent.
STOP AND SWITCH
FIRST STOP ALL FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDIES AND SWITCH DIRECT FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDIES TO CLEAN ZERO CARBON EVERLASTING ENERGY DEVELOPMENT.
This will price the full cost of carbon by charging the fossil fuel corporations,the huge externalized social and environmental costs, that are recognized indirect subsidies, by means of taxing carbon at source.
To stop indirect fossil fuel subsidies the polluting corporations must be charged the full cost by a carbon charge (it's not actually a tax).
Stop wasting time & public money on ideas that can't get near zero carbon.
- Stop subsidizing and supporting biofuels (more life cycle CO2 emissions than fossil fuels).
- Stop public funding of fossil fuel carbon capture R&D (coal industry boondoggle.)
- Give up on carbon trading
- Capping carbon emissions from fossil fuel emitters is fine, but does not lead to zero carbon energy and technology that has to be converted rather then capped.
Develop industrial scale capacity to extract CO2 direct from the air.
This is actually the bottom line for the survival of humanity. We can do everything else, but if we are unable to get some CO2 out of the atmosphere we fail and the future is over for humanity.
Stop all human source carbon dioxide emissions
Convert all fossil fuel energy sources and services to clean zero carbon.
Stop deforestation.
Convert to notill agriculture.
Convert off the internal combustion engine for transportation.
The above on vehicle engines will also control the toxic GHG ground level ozone
and zero fosssil fuels will give a very large reduction in black carbon and ground level ozone
as well as reducing methane to some extent.
and zero fosssil fuels will give a very large reduction in black carbon and ground level ozone
as well as reducing methane to some extent.
Stop emitting black carbon soot.
Black carbon is estimated to be a top global warming emissions source
(Black carbon scientific assessment 2013).
Convert off the internal combustion engine (starting with diesel) for transportation.
Provide zero carbon cooking capacity to populations relying on burning biomass
to cook.
to cook.
Stop emitting methane (CH4)
Methane is the meat GHG emitted by ruminant livestock especially cows.
It lasts in the atmosphere 12 years and has a global warming capacity over 10 years of 100X CO2.
It goes on heating after 12 years, because in the atmosphere it is converted to other GHGs notably CO2.
Convert to no till, zero chemical, zero industrial livestock, organic agro-forestry food production.
The meat heavy diet is responsible for 18% to 50% of methane emissions (according to studies). Stop subsidizing livestock and meat.
Stop warmongering and militarism
The meat heavy diet is responsible for 18% to 50% of methane emissions (according to studies). Stop subsidizing livestock and meat.
Stop warmongering and militarism
This should perhaps top the list. There is no chance of decarbonisation to any great extent all the time nations are warmongering and competing against each other. Decarbonisation is impossible so long as nations are manufacturing massive weapons of mass destruction that consumer massive amounts of fossil fuels to smelt and engineer massive amounts of metals and require massive amounts of oil to operate. International demilitarization and disarmament is an essential prerequisite for avoiding global climate suicide. The international economy of competitiveness is in fact a continuation of the World War economies.
Biochar
The only known way today to buy time by removing CO2 out of the carbon cycle (for over 100 years) is by making biochar from wood.
The process is pyrolysis. There is no such thing as any other long term sinking of carbon.
Other non carbon GHGs
Stop emitting nitrous oxide
Like CO2 N20 is highly persistent and cumulative in the atmosphere so emissions must stop.
It is 290 X the warming of CO2 and last 100 years.
It is emitted by the use of chemical nitrogen fertilizers and livestock manure waste.
Convert to no till, zero chemical, zero industrial livestock, organic agro-forestry food production.
Stop emitting halocarbons.
These human made chemical include the most potent and long lasting of all the GHGs.
They are used in manufacturing processes for which there are good alternatives. They must be banned.
Zero Carbon Emergency Response Plan
True zero carbon by conversion - not by CCS and not the carbon intensity approach
The only feasible option for zero carbon emissions is rather obviously the conversion of all fossil fuel energy to non polluting renewable energy sources. This is definitely feasible.
These are two other options frequently referred to for mitigation, that are in the IPCC AR5,but are not options at all.
Carbon capture & storage (CCS)
The carbon capture & storage (CCS) concept has been around for many years, the IPCC published a special report on CCS in 2005. There is still evidence it is feasible on any scale, and it cannot get to zero carbon.
Carbon intensity
Improving carbon intensity of fossil fuel combustion can never get close to zero carbon and is an excuse for more fossil fuels for energy. The IPCC AR5 WG1 technical summary actually had a graph showing that the best that carbon intensity could do is useless.
1. Stop all fossil fuel subsidies $7 Trillion/year (IMF)
2. Price carbon- fossil fuel pollution charge.
1. STOP ALL ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE GAS POLLUTION PROMITING GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES
In 2013 the IMF published
A 2013 report by TRUCOST found GHG promoting externalities are over $3Trillion, putting total GHG pollution encouraging subsidies to $3.5 Trillion.
The only feasible option for zero carbon emissions is rather obviously the conversion of all fossil fuel energy to non polluting renewable energy sources. This is definitely feasible.
These are two other options frequently referred to for mitigation, that are in the IPCC AR5,but are not options at all.
Carbon capture & storage (CCS)
The carbon capture & storage (CCS) concept has been around for many years, the IPCC published a special report on CCS in 2005. There is still evidence it is feasible on any scale, and it cannot get to zero carbon.
Carbon intensity
Improving carbon intensity of fossil fuel combustion can never get close to zero carbon and is an excuse for more fossil fuels for energy. The IPCC AR5 WG1 technical summary actually had a graph showing that the best that carbon intensity could do is useless.
1. Stop all fossil fuel subsidies $7 Trillion/year (IMF)
2. Price carbon- fossil fuel pollution charge.
1. STOP ALL ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE GAS POLLUTION PROMITING GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES
In 2013 the IMF published
A 2013 report by TRUCOST found GHG promoting externalities are over $3Trillion, putting total GHG pollution encouraging subsidies to $3.5 Trillion.
The
choice is clear for humanity-
emergency de-carbonization
or the literal end of our world
emergency de-carbonization
or the literal end of our world
Stern Commission's 2006 Economics of Climate Change. Pricing carbon by Internalizing the full costs of carbon.
Paris 2015 Call by economists.
No progress without correcting the economic market failure
No progress without correcting the economic market failure