Sentences with phrase «stabilization wedges»

If that proves out, and that rate were sustained, we'd hit our first stabilization wedge from solar in 2030.

That puts the two categories together at something like a quarter of one stabilization wedge today.

For the first time, one stabilization wedge worth of wind power has been projected as a realistic possibility.

If BCDR could be implemented on the scale of 1 Pg of carbon (C) per year — the magnitude of stabilization wedges used in Pacala and Socolow (2004)-- it could contribute substantially to climate change mitigation.

This is the heart of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative's (CMI) Stabilization Wedges concept, a simple framework for understanding both the carbon emissions cuts needed to avoid dramatic climate change and the tools already available to do so.

Is there really any daylight between that view and the world with N stabilization wedges (then seven, now nine) Steve [Pacala, Socolow's co-author] and I have been describing?

[In 2001, scientists at Princeton's Carbon Mitigation Initiative became famous for proposing a set of «climate stabilization wedges» — efficiency, wind, solar, etc. — to bring emissions down beneath global targets.]

Socolow's concept of stabilization wedges is the most useful way of framing the matter.

Other similar billion - ton savings in emissions (what Princeton University professors Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow have dubbed «stabilization wedges») are desperately needed and can come only from reduction in fossil - fuel consumption through energy efficiency, low - carbon technologies and changes in way of life.

Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies

In Advanced Placement environmental science, she uses an activity developed at Princeton University called the Stabilization Wedge Game, in which students evaluate strategies to hold emissions to their current levels over the next fifty years.

But all to a man, agree on the need for reforestation, which I note is a stabilization wedge.

But as I note in the overall summary Hub for «Six Degrees,» renewables need to keep expanding exponentially in order to possibly «get there» — if the present rate of expansion continues, wind would get us one Socalow - Pacala «stabilization wedge» — savings of a billion tonnes of carbon — in 38 years, solar, in 49.

The e-mail discussion that follows proceeds along two tracks, one examining the validity of the conclusions in the influential «stabilization wedges» paper that Socolow co-authored with Stephen Pacala in 2004, the other offering reactions to Socolow's ideas on how to advance sustainable energy choices in an era of deep polarization and economic malaise.

Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies (pdf)

In 2004 Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow published a paper in Science in which they argued that a pragmatic, but still difficult, way of stabilizing atmospheric CO2 levels over the long term was via the implementation of seven «stabilization wedges» over the next 50 years.

The piece examines lessons he's learned since he and a colleague, Stephen Pacala, co-authored «Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies» in 2004.

Robert Socolow of Princeton University has written and essay «Wedges Reaffirme,» that examines the impact of his 2004 paper with Stephen Pacala, entitled «Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies».

Pacala, S. and S. Socolow, Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies.

I think you are right that solutions are going to come from multiple «contributions» — that idea is central to the «stabilization wedges» concept, too, which I wrote about in connection with Mark Lynas» «Six Degrees.»

Pacala, S. and R. Socolow, 2004: Stabilization wedges: Solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies.

S. W. Pacala, R.H. Socolow, Stabilization wedges: solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies.

Pacala and Socolow are the authors of «Stabilization wedges: Solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies» (Science, August 13, 2004).

S. Pacala and R. Socolow, «Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies,» Science, vol.

The bottom line is that while achieving the necessary GHG emissions reductions and stabilization wedges will be difficult, it is possible.

The study used the concept of a «stabilization wedge», in which «a wedge represents an activity that reduces emissions to the atmosphere by a certain amount.

It would require some 12 — 14 of Princeton's «stabilization wedges» — strategies and / or technologies that over a period of a few decades each ultimately reduce projected global carbon emissions by one billion metric tons per year (see technical paper here, less technical one here).

I explain where he is wrong in Part 2.5: The fuzzy math of the stabilization wedges [warning: only for hard - core wonks].

After a brief digression on the subject of «peak oil,» which «will not save us,» an important and extended discussion of the concept of «stabilization wedges» concludes the book.

The 2 TW mark is just one stabilization wedge; we needed 7, as of the writing of Six Degrees.

These strategies are usually referred to as «stabilization wedges,» because each takes a wedge - shaped piece out of the projected graph of future emissions.

The «Stabilization wedge» strategy involves using multiple available solutions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

The huge growth in nuclear power examined in the Keystone report amounts to only one of the so - called «stabilization wedges» needed to fight global warming.

One of S&P's strategies to achieve a stabilization wedge is to add double the current global nuclear capacity to replace coal - based electricity.