Clearly the utility of these instruments is not a single item.
One would imagine that monitoring of this sort is critical infrastructure for monitoring remote & continuous emitters.
Someone has already motivated many of these science missions, and they are not funded, to my knowledge, by industry. These are already rolled into govt investments so really the argument is not total CO2 balance, but what technologies can be deployed next year that will give you continuous reductions over time.
_Many_ people will argue their clean-tech _will eventually_ provide savings, not many can be installed next year at scale.
This is an obvious choice IMO, if for no other reason than people cannot out-right emit with no consequences.
One would imagine that monitoring of this sort is critical infrastructure for monitoring remote & continuous emitters.
Someone has already motivated many of these science missions, and they are not funded, to my knowledge, by industry. These are already rolled into govt investments so really the argument is not total CO2 balance, but what technologies can be deployed next year that will give you continuous reductions over time.
_Many_ people will argue their clean-tech _will eventually_ provide savings, not many can be installed next year at scale.
This is an obvious choice IMO, if for no other reason than people cannot out-right emit with no consequences.