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 Climate Colab Oct 13, 2010 05:41  |
What are the advantages and disadvantages of this proposal?
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 Yang Ruan Oct 24, 2010 11:52 |
Hi,
Thanks for your proposal. I have some comments that I hope would be helpful.
CO2 concentration continues to rise, though, even though emissions becomes constant. If you put in your actions in http://forio.com/simulation/climate-development/index.htm , which is the C-LEARN site, you see that concentrations is only reduced a little bit compared to BAU. This is because the emissions rate still outpaces the rate of absorption.
http://forio.com/simulation/climate-development/htm/removals-comp.htm
C-LEARN models the carbon cycle in the MIT Composite model used by the Climate CoLab.
What's your perspective on these models?
Yang (moderator)
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Yang Ruan Oct 24, 2010 11:18 |
Sorry, the first link should be
http://forio.com/simulation/climate-development/index.htm
and the second link is
http://forio.com/simulation/climate-development/htm/removals-comp.htm
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Yang Ruan Oct 25, 2010 01:17 |
The first link should be
http://forio.com/simulation/climate-development/index.htm
and the second link is
http://forio.com/simulation/climate-development/htm/removals-comp.htm
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Yang Ruan Oct 27, 2010 11:33 |
If developed countries stabilize at a lower emissions rate/year, then the CO2 concentration will not go up as high. Plus, it is more fair because the emissions per capita in the developed countries is very high in 2005 compared to other countries.
CO2 concentration can also be lower if rapidly developing countries were more aggressive, but maybe that is not as fair in terms of emissions/capita. In order for it to be able to reach -10% of 2005 levels, I had to extend the stop time to 2080, though.
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