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Climate Intervention : Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth by National Research Council; National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Earth and Life Studies; National Research Council (U.S.). Ocean Studies Board; National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate; Committee on Geoengineering Climate: Technical Evaluation and Discussion of Impacts is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>The growing problem of changing environmental conditions caused by climate destabilization is well recognized as one of the defining issues of our time. The root problem is greenhouse gas emissions, and the fundamental solution is curbing those emissions. Climate geoengineering has often been considered to be a "last-ditch" response to climate change, to be used only if climate change damage should produce extreme hardship. Although the likelihood of eventually needing to resort to these efforts grows with every year of inaction on emissions control, there is a lack of information on these ways of potentially intervening in the climate system.</p> <p>As one of a two-book report, this volume of <i>Climate Intervention</i> discusses albedo modification - changing the fraction of incoming solar radiation that reaches the surface. This approach would deliberately modify the energy budget of Earth to produce a cooling designed to compensate for some of the effects of warming associated with greenhouse gas increases. The prospect of large-scale albedo modification raises political and governance issues at national and global levels, as well as ethical concerns. <i>Climate Intervention

Who reads Climate Intervention : Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth?

Author

National Research Council; National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Earth and Life Studies; National Research Council (U.S.). Ocean Studies Board; National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate; Committee on Geoengineering Climate: Technical Evaluation and Discussion of Impacts

Publisher

National Academies Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780309314855

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Technology, Stem