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By dobermanmacleod (anonymous) | Posted May 29, 2008 at 05:22:53

Do I need to point out that the CO2(e) [i.e. all the greenhouse gas in the air expressed in terms of CO2 equivilent] is already above 450ppm? Furthermore, most reasonable people know that it is doubtful that it is possible to keep the CO2 level below 450ppm, and quite possibly 550ppm.

know of no realistic person who thinks carbon dioxide emissions are going to do anything but grow. Most European countries are not meeting their emissions goals, and of the ones that have, it's because their economies are collapsing. In the United States, this notion that we're going to reduce our emissions by 80 percent is pure fantasy. --Pete Geddes, Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, 2 April 2008

"I'm going to tell you something I probably shouldn't: we may not be able to stop global warming. We need to begin curbing global greenhouse emissions right now, but more than a decade after the signing of the Kyoto Protocol, the world has utterly failed to do so. Unless the geopolitics of global warming change soon, the Hail Mary pass of geoengineering might become our best shot." --Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine, 17 March 2008

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