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Are we stuck with cement?
theoutline.com ^ | 6/28/2018 | Mike Disabato

Posted on 06/29/2018 12:23:17 PM PDT by rktman

Earlier this year, Sara Law of the Carbon Disclosure Project raised her hand at a conference in New York on government and private sector initiatives to address climate change. She politely asked the panel, which had been assembled to discuss opportunities for investing in low-carbon infrastructure, whether they knew how much cement each project might require. The panel members shifted uncomfortably in their seats and chuckled; no one jumped in immediately to respond.

The problem is that many of these projects require concrete. A lot of concrete. This worries Law and her colleagues at the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit that tracks industrial greenhouse-gas emissions and promotes proper carbon disclosure. The CDP recently released a report, “Building Pressure: Which cement companies will be left behind in the low-carbon transition,” warning the cement industry — cement being the main binder in concrete — that “in its current form, it will not be compatible with” any nation’s commitment in the Paris agreement; and if radical changes do not occur the world will “risk missing [its] climate goals.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: adobe; construction; globalwarming; steel
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WOW! The "CARBON DISCLOUSRE PROJECT". Sounds intimidating. To somebody. I'll need to see some concrete evidence on this. And, they mention the gay paree climate NOT agreement. Serious folks no doubt.
1 posted on 06/29/2018 12:23:17 PM PDT by rktman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ping.


2 posted on 06/29/2018 12:25:41 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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...“in its current form, it will not be compatible with” any nation’s commitment in the Paris agreement...


Well, except the US. We’re not in the Paris agreement. :-D


3 posted on 06/29/2018 12:26:10 PM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: rktman

Let’s just build stuff with wood, hay, stubble, mud bricks and corrugated steel.


4 posted on 06/29/2018 12:26:24 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: rktman

Good Lord. The want us to live like we did back in the stone age.


5 posted on 06/29/2018 12:28:09 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: BBQToadRibs

Early Bronze Age actually.

The elites will need the rest of us to build Ziggurats upon which their mansions will be perched.


6 posted on 06/29/2018 12:30:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: rktman

Why isn’t there a methane disclosure project? How about sulfur?

Why is it that a nominally negligible greenhouse gas like CO2 is so massively targetted, but real greenhouse gases and pollutants are considered so boring and hands-off by activists?


7 posted on 06/29/2018 12:31:40 PM PDT by z3n
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To: rktman
opportunities for investing

Translation: Shakedown.

8 posted on 06/29/2018 12:32:13 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: BBQToadRibs

You lived in the stone age? Looking good for being that old. ;-)


9 posted on 06/29/2018 12:33:52 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: z3n

Are the other gasses offended or distraught by not being included.


10 posted on 06/29/2018 12:34:39 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

We’re going to start with this sh!t again. Why don’t we just halt civilization.


11 posted on 06/29/2018 12:35:30 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: rktman

Someone in that group should have told Sara to put her thumb back in her mouth and get back to playing with her legos.


12 posted on 06/29/2018 12:38:13 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: rktman

If you could hear my joints pop when I get out of bed, you would realize I AM that old!


13 posted on 06/29/2018 12:39:31 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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Hilarious… I remember years ago musing to a bunch of guys over a beer that we can all await the day when the envirowackos would be coming after cement. It’s taken a while but here they are. Well, I don’t think that cement producers need much help in formulating their arguments against this manufactured problem but it goes without saying that for every negative, there is positive… in fact many, especially when looking at all the alternatives.


14 posted on 06/29/2018 12:40:36 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: VTenigma

Sort of like the TV show about life after humans. Who cares? All you gotta do is look at some of the video from Chernoble(SP?).


15 posted on 06/29/2018 12:42:26 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: BBQToadRibs

"Yabba Dabba Doo"
16 posted on 06/29/2018 12:45:47 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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Haveth we any commitment to the Paris accord?

To set the record straight, it is portland cement that binds the sand and aggregate in concrete. Concrete is nown to presstitutes as cement


17 posted on 06/29/2018 12:46:06 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... In August our cities will be burning))
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To: robroys woman

Didn’t she get the memo? The Paris Accord died. It ran out of America’s money


18 posted on 06/29/2018 12:48:34 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: z3n

“Why is it that a nominally negligible greenhouse gas like CO2 is so massively targetted, but real greenhouse gases and pollutants are considered so boring and hands-off by activists?”

Because that is what we exhale.


19 posted on 06/29/2018 12:49:47 PM PDT by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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To: BBQToadRibs

Will we at least get a chance at some Flintstones Ribs?
20 posted on 06/29/2018 12:50:03 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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