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Climate Control

Friday, May 04, 2007

Andrew Revkin, New York Times environment reporter and author, The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World (Kingfisher, 2006) and Richard Richels, economist at the Electric Power Research Institute and one of the lead authors of the third IPCC report on how to mitigate climate change, discuss what technology would be needed to reverse the effects of climate change and its possible cost.

Read the summary of the IPCC report (PDF)


Comments

  • [1] david from New York City May 04, 2007 - 11:29AM

    Your guest/caller who mentioned CO2 suppression and Nulcear energy have a fairly short-term perspective. What happens to the carbon that gets placed underground. Wouldn't it build up and eventually find its way to the surface? Also, what kind of embodied energy is involved in pumping it underground?


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