23 June 2005

Make your own forecasts of future energy, carbon emissions, and climate

There's nothing like being able to play around with something for helping us to get to know it. So here's our chance to get better acquainted with climate change.

It will still show though, "The bottom line is that the change in the world's energy infrastructure that would be required, to limit the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, is not small. A few Toyota Priuses are not going to do it, nor is the Kyoto Protocol by itself even close to solving the problem. Conservation helps, but the historical rate of improvement in energy efficiency is already built into the forecast. There is some scope for trade-offs over time, cuts in emissions now versus cuts later. Ultimately, however, tens of terawatts is a lot of carbon-free energy."
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"Spend and tax" not "tax and spend"

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