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RE: Climate Change - 2021 (IPCC New Report)

in Steemit Türkiye • 5 years ago (edited)

I agree we "we [must] put pressure on companies and governments not to ignore climate change." Canada has decided to put Carbon Taxes across the board on commodities. Here is the tax for Gasoline

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These additional taxes range from 10% to 15%. What does this buy us? The traditional news media (newspapers, TV and radio) receive payments from the government to bail them out. These payments are conditional on not contradicting or embarrassing the existing government.

We have also seen CO2 drop in Canada because people drive less (they cannot afford to) and buy more fuel-efficient cars. We have also lost a large part of our manufacturing capability. That is because most manufacturing is in countries like China with no intention of reducing their CO2 levels. China's production is much higher than any other country:

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On the plus side, the plume of CO2 from China drifts over Canada, so our crop production should continue to be high.

I registered my concerns about the interpretations made by the IPCC paper here.

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     5 years ago 

    Hi @dwarrilow2002, thank you for sharing the up-to-date information. Carbon Taxes is a very important step against climate change. Unfortunately, many countries which have large industries do not care about these limitations. As you said, it doesn't matter where the emissions are produced, the pollution affects negatively all over the world.

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    The more I study the topic, the less satisfied I am with people's interpretations. As an example, some use the term "pollution" to describe Co2. Others use the term beneficial byproduct of production.

    A May 2018 report by The Heartland Institute, “The Social Benefits of Fossil Fuels,” states the “increase in atmospheric [carbon dioxide] concentration … caused by the historical burning of fossil fuels has likely increased agricultural production per unit [of] land area by 70 percent for C3 cereals [which include rice, wheat, oats, cotton, and evergreen trees], 28 percent for C4 cereals [which include sorghum, maize, and various grasses], 33 percent for fruits and melons, 62 percent for legumes, 67 percent for root and tuber crops, and 51 percent for vegetables.”
    The moral of the story is this: you can have more crops, lower food prices, and fewer hungry people and deaths due to starvation, or you can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and produce little or no reduction in future temperatures, but with current and reasonably expected future technologies, you can’t have both.

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