Renewable Energy may be too Little too Late to Prevent Carbon Catastrophe

Renewable Energy may be too Little too Late to Prevent Carbon Catastrophe

by juancole@oilprice.com (Juan Cole)

The world probably needs to get back to 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere if truly radical climate change is to be avoided. But we are going in the wrong direction fast. In April, the Mauna Loy observatory measured CO2 in the atmosphere at about 396 parts per million, the highest recorded since records began being kept. The level was up nearly 3 ppm in a single year, itself an unusual statistic. Before the Industrial Revolution, at the time of the American Revolution, the level was 280 ppm. The Founding Fathers would already…Read more...