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Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
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I read the article and essentially the authors shot down every attempt at reducing or removing carbons from the atmosphere. Apparently, no method is useful because they all are not 100% perfect. As a former scientist myself, I feel the authors have fallen to a common blindside of scientists: idealism. In science, we strive for the "95% significance" when in reality, even a small percentage improvement is already good. It is very likely that there will be no single one solution to the problem of global warming; rather it will require a whole slew of new technologies, economic models and even the social sciences to combine their effects into measurable change.
An old engineering saying is "Perfect is the enemy of good".
It's very old and not just for engineering, before engineering was a word old. It's a great proverb though regardless.