Cheaper Ways to Capture Carbon Dioxide

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6. OK, let’s look at this logically

• If we implement a CCS program, there is a chance we might kill ourselves.
• If we don’t implement a CCS program, we will certainly kill ourselves. (We have, for all intents and purposes already done it. According to Hansen et al the warming, “in the pipeline,” is already too much, )

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Warming “in the pipeline”. The expanded time scale for the industrial era (Fig. 2) reveals a growing gap between actual global temperature (purple curve) and equilibrium (long-term) temperature response based on the net estimated forcing (black curve). Ocean and ice sheet response times together account for this gap, which is now 2.0°C.

The remaining gap between equilibrium temperature for current atmospheric composition and actual global temperature is ~1.4°C. This further 1.4°C warming to come is due to the slow surface albedo feedback, specifically ice sheet disintegration and vegetation change.

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Please recall that at the time this was written, atmospheric CO[font size="1"]₂[/font] stood at 385 ppm.