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    1. Timothy Gowers‏ @wtgowers Sep 22
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      Timothy Gowers Retweeted Dr. Izabella Laba

      Izabella Laba with very interesting thoughts about how universities might change in response to climate change (though some of the ideas would be worth thinking about even without climate change).https://twitter.com/ilaba/status/1175841085806891009 …

      Timothy Gowers added,

      Dr. Izabella Laba @ilaba
      Replying to @BarbaraFantechi @Anthony_Bonato @mathyadriana
      Ok, why not. http://www.math.ubc.ca/~ilaba/preprints/norms2019.pdf …
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    2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Sep 22
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      I wish they'd put more research $ into carbon capture / sequestration (not mentioned). I've been very surprised how open it is. The current situation reminds me of the situation with pollution in the 1960s. Lots of "we need to drive less / carpool" etc.

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    3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Sep 22
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      Instead, a huge part of the solution turned out to be catalytic converters, together with emissions standards.

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    4. Uffe Poulsen‏ @uffe1974 Sep 22
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      The "drive less" type of solutions would, however, have had some positive side-effects...

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      michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Sep 22
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      And many negative side effects. The question for me, though, is whether they would have worked. I very much doubt it. Ditto, here: carbon capture has a reasonable chance of significantly impacting climate change. So it should be tried, not ignored or rejected.

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        1. Uffe Poulsen‏ @uffe1974 Sep 24
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          Agree that carbon capture definitely should be tried. But it does fall in the "patch up techs bad consequences with more tech" category. It's not obvious to me that such an error-correction scheme will necessarily converge.

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