PieFedSafe underground carbon storage would only reduce warming by 0.7°C, analysis finds
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Wouldn't 6°C be a massive overcorrection?
Isn't that about ⅓ pr ¼ of the problem solved then
macnielWell 0.7°c isn't something to be snobbish about....... They estimated 6°c like it's some sort of Wonderweapon O.o?!
0.7°C alone isn't enough, but it would still probably save several hundred million human lives, possibly a billion or two.
The difference between 4.1 °C an 3.4 °C is not meaningless.
But yeah, if some people have been complacent because "we don't need to save energy, we can just hide all the carbon underground", this of course invalidates their justification.
Yeah. 0.7°C is huge. The headline is weird. The article explains it a little better, that that's the global total if every single potential area were used to its full currently known potential. Basically it's a significantly less promising solution than was previously believed. But yeah they should have phrased it differently.