Sentences with phrase «carbon negative talk»

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There are enormous assumptions in most calculations, including the assumption that «carbon negative» technologies, like capturing CO2 from power plants burning biomass, can be done at a scale remotely relevant to the climate problem (to be relevant one needs to be talking in gigatons of avoided CO2 emissions per year — each a billion tons).

When we say «positive» and «negative» feedbacks in the sense of radiation (so I'm not talking about carbon - cycle responses such as methane release from the oceans or such) we're referring to temperature - sensitive variables which themselves affect the radiation budget of the planet.

Christophe Jospe, Chief Strategist at the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions at Arizona State University, talks about reducing carbon dioxide emmissions.