tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post890054343792190705..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: I'm a carbon neutral delayist - until 2020EliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-86896796226453021472012-08-28T11:37:41.527-04:002012-08-28T11:37:41.527-04:00Brian: Any updates on science that shows SFB or ev...Brian: Any updates on science that shows SFB or even other wetlands absorbing a huge amount of carbon emissions and making carbon neutrality possible?<br />Regards, DonFixed Carbonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06321707907871138659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-13235938432720860842012-08-26T20:09:59.470-04:002012-08-26T20:09:59.470-04:00Don - I'll ask staff, but they're should b...Don - I'll ask staff, but they're should be plenty of stuff available. Don't know about specific to SF Bay though. The Climate Registry is supposed to have a white paper on it - I surfed around their website but didn't find it.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09301230860904555513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-72564106077380827032012-08-25T11:08:54.799-04:002012-08-25T11:08:54.799-04:00Brian: Can you point me to the best,or most pertin...Brian: Can you point me to the best,or most pertinent to SFB, or other subset of this literature pertinent to offsetting carbon emissions? Soome refs please.<br />Regards DonFixed Carbonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06321707907871138659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-81962615822609977542012-08-24T01:54:38.075-04:002012-08-24T01:54:38.075-04:00Fixed Carbon: no, not joking. Lots of research g...Fixed Carbon: no, not joking. Lots of research going on in the area, as I understand it. My perception is that it should do a lot of sequestration, and tidal doesn't have as much of an issue as freshwater wetlands do with methane emissions.<br /><br />Steve - the wetlands may or may not keep up with SLR naturally. Some of the ponds we already opened up are accumulating sediment naturally at a rapid rate. We can also supplement with disposal of clean fill or accumulated sediment from managed streams, which is also being done currently in places in the South Bay. Even if that doesn't work and they become open water, I hadn't heard that would release the carbon. Have you?Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09301230860904555513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-83449027630920565412012-08-24T00:51:32.011-04:002012-08-24T00:51:32.011-04:00Off topic, but here goes anyway.
Do you realize ...Off topic, but here goes anyway. <br /><br />Do you realize that 5-year-olds have rights? And that <a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/aug/23/police-say-5-year-old-apparently-shot-father-arm/" rel="nofollow"> you're never too young to exercise your Second Amendment rights?</a>Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575837647825433144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-36972817187816814362012-08-23T16:23:37.221-04:002012-08-23T16:23:37.221-04:00Brian: This is my second try at posting a question...Brian: This is my second try at posting a question in response to your statement, "San Francisco Bay wetlands restoration, which should absorb a huge amount of carbon emissions and make carbon neutrality possible" Can you point me to the science underlying this belief? Perhaps the statement was in jest.Fixed Carbonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06321707907871138659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-20445941675959405252012-08-23T01:42:25.738-04:002012-08-23T01:42:25.738-04:00By 2020 Admiral Rabbit will be at sea munching cat...By 2020 Admiral Rabbit will be at sea munching cattails to furnish the boilers of the US Navy with biofuel pellets, pending the advent of the Great White Peat Fleet propelled by renewable fuel from by then Senator Schmits home district wetlands.THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-47745139280337617812012-08-23T01:11:24.733-04:002012-08-23T01:11:24.733-04:00Er, so what happens to the wetlands credit when SL...Er, so what happens to the wetlands credit when SLR swamps them, the levees built for the primary benefit of Google etc. (and paid for by taxpayers) eliminate any prospect of upland retreat, and that CO2 comes right back out?Steve Bloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12943109973917998380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-78390692334038714732012-08-22T22:17:17.281-04:002012-08-22T22:17:17.281-04:00Excellent work.
I'd suggest when you're...Excellent work. <br /><br />I'd suggest when you're mapping the plan to include targets for milestones. That way you can revise the end date more easily and you might get there sooner than you think. <br /><br />For example - by 2015 be 70% carbon neutral or, even better, specify which activities will be carbon neutral. Gives a focus for the plan and you can monitor progress along the way better.Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-46219144855292809172012-08-22T19:16:01.057-04:002012-08-22T19:16:01.057-04:00You have to call this the 2020 vision initiativeYou have to call this the 2020 vision initiativeEliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-25007948679982678962012-08-22T13:28:33.818-04:002012-08-22T13:28:33.818-04:00Yeah. Stretch goals are all well and good, but the...Yeah. Stretch goals are all well and good, but there's the tendency when the goals are unreachable to completely ditch them (see Canada + Kyoto, California + electric cars, etc...) so keeping them achievable is key. <br /><br />Moreover, I tend to favor a 2 or 3 prong approach: prong 1 is to identify actual actions, and promise to do them - eg, cap all landfills and use the methane in the landfills to generate power. Prong 2 is a price signal of some kind like a tax. The more optional Prong 3, for me, is a target, which ends up being something that will encourage revisiting Prongs 1 and 2 if they are insufficient. But I guess a lot of people are target driven... (I also like my targets to not require perfection: eg, I'll usually prefer, say, a ULEV rule over a ZEV rule)<br /><br />-MMM<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com