Why do climate change scenarios return to coal?

2017/08/17 by Justin Ritchie, Hadi Dowlatabadi · 1 voice · 124 citations
Energy · Engineering · Environmental Science · #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics #CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions #Climate change #Climate model #Coal #Coal combustion products #Context (archaeology) #Economics #Engineering #Environmental economics #Environmental resource management #Environmental science #Fossil fuel #Geology #Global Energy and Sustainability Research #Natural resource economics #Representative Concentration Pathways #Waste management

paper · doi:10.1016/j.energy.2017.08.083

published in Energy 140, 1276-1291 (Elsevier BV)

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Discussions

• Back in 2017, UBC researchers Justin Ritchie and Hadi Dowlatabadi published a pair of papers showing that the emissions scenarios underneath RCP8.5 weren't plausible because they modeled unrealistic l [bsky, 16 points, 1 comments]