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- The Story of the Second Greenhouse Gas – CH4
- Thoughts from “Is it useful to think of climate change as a “world war”? Updated by David Roberts @drvox david@vox.com Aug 18, 2016, “
- To stay under 2 degrees, developed nations, including the US, must immediately begin reducing their emissions at roughly 10 percent a year, every year, until they hit zero. Developing countries must do the same, though they have until 2020 or so to peak and begin reducing. (These scenarios are based on the work of climate scientists Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows.)
- There is no precedent for an industrial shift that size. Ever. Anywhere.
- Arguably America’s mobilization in the run up to WWII is the only historical antecedent that conveys anything like the scale involved — the rapid reallocation of industrial resources, the new factories and output, the unity of purpose.