Final Thoughts
Building the St Lawrence Dam could be the ultimate effort to save the ice of the North Pole, the Arctic ecosystem, and prevent or slow down positive feedbacks influencing global warming, like the northern hemisphere albedo effect and methane emissions.
If the St Lawrence Dam would prove capable of truly halting permafrost thawing it is not unthinkable its mitigation effect, expressed in prevented methane emissions, is of a similar scale as the combined reduction efforts under the Kyoto Protocol. (If only one thing is to be concluded from that, it should be the necessity of increased collective ambition for future climate treaties, especially the forthcoming Copenhagen Protocol.)
Clearly and unmistakably, what the world needs is massive investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and other clean technologies, collective lifestyle changes, halting deforestation, carbon taxation and ETS. But apart from that, in an effort to stay below truly dangerous CO2(-equivalent) levels we need to accept additional helping hands. If the St Lawrence Dam proves capable of preventing a part of permafrost thawing and methane emissions, it should be considered as such.
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If the St Lawrence Dam would prove capable of truly halting permafrost thawing it is not unthinkable its mitigation effect, expressed in prevented methane emissions, is of a similar scale as the combined reduction efforts under the Kyoto Protocol. (If only one thing is to be concluded from that, it should be the necessity of increased collective ambition for future climate treaties, especially the forthcoming Copenhagen Protocol.)
Clearly and unmistakably, what the world needs is massive investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and other clean technologies, collective lifestyle changes, halting deforestation, carbon taxation and ETS. But apart from that, in an effort to stay below truly dangerous CO2(-equivalent) levels we need to accept additional helping hands. If the St Lawrence Dam proves capable of preventing a part of permafrost thawing and methane emissions, it should be considered as such.
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