Skeptical Science New Research for Week #39 2023
Open access notables 'Net zero is only a distraction— we just have to end fossil fuel emissions.' The latter is true but the former isn't, or not in the real world as it's likely to be in the immediate future. And 'just' just doesn't enter into it; we don't have a simple problem on our hands. Net zero is afflicted by various carpetbaggers and the fossil fuel industry itself— plus plain old human nature in the form of wishful thinking. But fully eliminating hydrocarbon fuels and non-fuel CO2 emissions from key industrial processes spanning from agriculture through production o...