Human Net Zero and Climate Net Zero

This is another follow-up to my posts this week about the influence of carbon sinks on emission reduction goals. Let’s just start from the state of the carbon sinks right now. If I am not in error, they have been absorbing around 55% of human CO2 emissions over the last ten years. My source for this is Glen Peters. In the graph he shows, we can see that carbon sinks have increased in capacity over the last hundred years. We also see that the terrestrial biosphere carbon sink swings more wildly than a bitcoin price chart, and the ocean carbon sink has increased its capacity in a relatively steady way, clocking in now at around ten billion tons of CO2 per year (up massively from around 2 billion in 1900). Since the biosphere carbon sink swings so wildly, taking a ten year average seems to be a good idea. Anyway, let’s just start with the assumption that right now carbon sinks removed 55% over the last ten years. Assuming around 35 billion tens per year of emissions,…

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