Saving the World: Three Problems at a Time
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Saving the World: Three Problems at a Time
Options of Last Resort“Our home planet is dangerously near a tipping point at which human-made greenhouse gases reach a level where major climate changes can proceed mostly under their own momentum.” James Hansen 2008 (1)
Sadly we my not act in time to reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases to prevent the beginning of a run away climate change event. If this occurs we have only two options which are to attempt to survive continually worsening impacts or adopt some alternative way to cool the planet and stop the runaway climate event.
The proposals put forward to date are largely technical in form and are collectively called geoengineering options.
Reference: (1) Hansen, J 2008, Tipping point: Perspective of a climatologist in Eva Fearn (ed.) 2008, State of the Wild 2008-2009, Wildlife Conservation Society and Island Press, Washington>Home >How >Solutions >Options of Last Resort
