trillionth tonne
hrynyshyn | May 20, 2010The first three of the "America's Climate Choices" reports from a U.S. National Academy of Sciences committee restate the case that there is "strong, credible body of evidence, based on multiple lines of research, documenting that Earth is warming" and calls for the adoption of "an economy-wide carbon pricing system." Not really Earth-shattering news, just climate-disrupting. What is worth drawing your attention to is the embrace of something akin to the "trillionth tonne" idea.
Until now, most government-associated documents dwell on end-point targets. A given a certain chance of keeping…