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The scale of the cutbacxks required look "daunting"

From the linked article:

To stabilize atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide — the primary contributor to global warming — CO2 emissions would have to drop 70% to 80% , said Richard Somerville, a theoretical meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.

And:

"All truck, all trains, all airplanes, cars, motorcycles and boats in the United States — that's 7.3% of global emissions," said Gregg Marland, a fossil fuel pollution expert at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

And:

If hybrid cars replaced all 245 million cars in the United States — more than a third of the cars in the world — the carbon savings would be less than 3% of the needed reduction.

Reading too much of this stuff can make a fellow downright gloomy.



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