Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished

Wild Card's progress: Basic

This Wild Card came from: 
Interviews

The source of this Wild Card: 
Oliver SPARROW, Challenge Forum, interviewed by MIoIR

Likelihood timeframe and scenario features : 
now-2050

Wild Card's description: 

By that I mean everything has an absorption curve. Imagine you have a clear glass of water and you put in a drop of ink and it becomes darker, and you keep doing that until it is completely black and then adding more in does not make any difference. Well, carbon dioxide does indeed absorb infrared and does indeed produce effects in low concentration, but it is now saturated and adding more won’t make any difference. There are very expensive schemes being set up, like the Mediterranean interconnect, that will be a waste of money. I am not saying this is true, but if it were, the science community and the policy community would be discredited for a generation.