Tim BrayCarney: “What makes those emissions go down will be carbon capture and storage.”
That is a declaration of war on Canada's environmentalists, who know (as does Carney) that scalable and viable capture/storage technologies are science fiction.
Evan Prodromou@timbray we have scalable and viable capture and storage technology; it's called "trees". We need to be preserving the ones we have and planting a lot more. #afforestation #reforestation
Nelson@evan @timbray I generally agree, trees are great, but with caveats:
- simply planting tree monocultures, without establishing complete ecosystems including other lifeforms, reduces resiliency in the face of extreme weather and fails to support biodiversity
- sadly carbon offset schemes can mean tree planting/preservation indirectly increases emissions, if people rely on forests to offset their emissions and then the forests burn down in climate-related fires, releasing the carbon
Hdsheena