Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®

“Changed diets resulted in GHG emission savings of 34–64% compared to the ‘business-as-usual’ scenario.

Climate Change” was published in 2009 by the International Institute for Environment and Development. It found that the mean “net present value of climate change impacts” in an emissions scenario similar to the one we are now on was $1240 trillion with no adaptation, but the value was only $890 trillion with adaptation. On the other hand, the autho

meat, fish, and egg consumption is no more than 90 grams per capita a day, the

A carbon tax is a tax on the carbon content of hydrocarbon fuels or on the carbon dioxide emitted by those fuels when they are converted into energy. Hydrocarbons fuels—such as coal, oil, and natural gas—contain carbon, which turns into carbon dioxide after combustion. In economics, the total economic harm caused by a pollutant such as carbon dioxi

you are not removing net carbon dioxide from the air with carbon capture and storage at a coal plant; you are just not adding new carbon dioxide into the air).

would burn all of our known fossil fuel reserves, since that would mean warming beyond 6°C (11°F) and an irreversibly ruined climate that would have trouble sustaining 1 billion people. It would also mean that (1) the Earth ends up with very large areas that are uninhabitable or unfarmable and (2) the ocean would suffer a mass extinction, with larg

reductions—40%—comes from energy efficiency.” The report itself provides data “confirming energy efficiency’s place as the ‘first fuel.

impacts means global economic growth of some 2.24% a year rather than 2.30%.

first category focuses on economic policies aimed at raising the price of carbon dioxide (and other GHG) emissions or subsidizing the cost of carbon-free energy sources. The goal of a carbon price is to have the economic cost of burning hydrocarbons (coal, oil, and natural gas) reflect the actual harm their emissions cause to humans and society.

Perhaps the hardest thing to adapt to besides rapid sea-level rise is Dust-Bowlification.