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Pandora's toolbox, the hopes and hazards of climate intervention, Wake Smith

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Includes bibliographical references, pages 355-395, and index

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Pandora's toolbox

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Wake Smith

the hopes and hazards of climate intervention

Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries thereafter, temperatures will remain elevated; climate damages will continue to accrue and sea levels will continue to rise. Even the urgent and utterly essential task of reaching net zero cannot be achieved rapidly by emissions reductions alone. To hasten net zero and minimize climate damages thereafter, we will also need massive carbon removal and storage. We may even need to reduce incoming solar radiation in order to lower unacceptably high temperatures. Such unproven and potentially risky climate interventions raise mind-blowing questions of governance and ethics. Pandora's Toolbox offers readers an accessible and authoritative introduction to both the hopes and hazards of some of humanity's most controversial technologies, which may nevertheless provide the key to saving our world

Prologue; Part I. Climate Introduction: 1. Where Do We Stand On Climate Change?; 2. Climate Science 101; 3. What's So Bad About Climate Change?; 4. Climate Negotiations; 5. Climate Economics; Part II. Responses to Climate Change: 6. The Energy Transition; 7. Other Mitigation; 8. Adaptation; 9. Our Descendants Will Demand Climate Intervention; Part III. Carbon Removal: 10. Natural Solutions; 11. Industrial Carbon Capture & Sequestration; 12. Direct Air Capture; Part IV. Solar Radiation Management: 13. Solar Radiation Management Alternatives; 14. Stratospheric Aerosol Injection; 15. Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Deployment; Part V. Social Ramifications of Climate Intervention: 16. Governance of Carbon Removal; 17. Governance of Solar Radiation Management; 18. Climate Ethics; 19. Public Perception; Part VI. Prospective Research Agenda: 20. The Path Forward for Carbon Dioxide Removal; 21. The Path Forward for Solar Radiation Management; Epilogue

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