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Posted Sun Apr 6 2008: from Nature, via NSF:
Emission Reduction Assumptions for Carbon Dioxide Overly Optimistic, Study Says http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1207441199
 Reducing global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) over the coming century will be more challenging than society has been led to believe, according to a research commentary appearing this week in the journal Nature.... Recent changes in "carbon intensity"--CO2 emissions per unit of energy consumed--already are higher than those predicted by the IPCC because of rapid economic development, says lead author Pielke. In Asia, for instance, the demands of more energy-intensive economies are being met with conventional fossil-fuel technologies, a process expected to continue there for decades and eventually move into Africa.
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So we can't just have a technological fix? You mean this will be hard?

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