[SustainableTompkins] Avoiding the GHG tipping point

[bosak at ibiblio.org]

> Terry Moore and Dave Panofsky of TCLocal have pointed me to the
> "mitigation wedge" analysis of S. Pacala and R. Socolow, described
> a couple of years ago in Science (Vol. 305, pp. 968-972; 13 August
> 2004) and reprised more recently (and I suspect more accessibly)
> in the September 2006 issue of Scientific American, which I wish
> I'd been quick enough to pick up at the newsstand but is probably
> gone now.  Looks to be worth grabbing if you run across a copy.

Anyone interested in stabilization wedges (properly so called) in
connection with greenhouse gas reduction should check out this nifty
Shockwave Flash animation:

http://www.princeton.edu/~cmi/resources/CMI_Resources_new_files/CMI_Stab_Wedges_Movie.swf

Some of the wedges seem a bit naive from a peak oil perspective
(e.g., using natural gas instead of coal to generate electricity
when we're already past the peak of North American natural gas
production), but the methodology provides a useful framework for
starting to think about solutions.

Jon