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Título: On the value of temporary carbon: A comment on Kirschbaum
Autor: Fearnside, Philip Martin
Palavras-chave: Carbon Sequestration
Climate Change
Combustion
Emission Control
Fossil Fuel
Global Warming
Data do documento: 2008
Revista: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
É parte de: Volume 13, Número 3, Pags. 207-210
Abstract: A recent paper by Miko Kirschbaum (Mitigat Adapt Strategies Glob Change 11(5-6):1151-1164, 2006) argues that temporary carbon (C) storage has "virtually no climate-change mitigation value." However, temporary carbon has value in delaying global warming that needs to be recognized in carbon accounting methodologies. The conclusions reached are very sensitive to any value that is attached to time. Basing analysis exclusively on the maximum temperature reached within a 100-year time frame ignores other important impacts of global warming that also need to be included when mitigation strategies are assessed. The relative weightings for long-term versus short-term impacts represent policy choices that result in a greater or a lesser value being attributed to temporary carbon, but that value should not be zero. Global warming is too formidable an enemy to allow us the luxury of discarding part of our arsenal in fighting against it. Both reducing fossil-fuel combustion and increasing biosphere carbon stocks are needed. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, B.V.
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-007-9112-7
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