22nd June 2009 Subgroup on energy and buildings, including water Starter notes by Edward Hill, Draft 2 Please email corrections and suggestions: edhill @ glartists.com A. THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM‘Experts agree that in order to stop Climaticide we are going to need an effort on the scale of World War 2 and not just for five years but probably for several decades’. Pascala & Socolow have proposed that it will require 14 of their so-called ‘Stabilisation Wedges’ to stabilise CO2 at acceptable levels in the world by 2050. Examples of these reference units are the installation of 2 million 1 MW wind turbines, tripling the existing nuclear capacity or the halting of deforestation and planting of 300 million hectares with trees. Derived from The Complete Guide to Climate Change by Brian Dawson an