There is no Plan B for dealing with the climate crisis

Journal article

To halt global warming, the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by human activities such as fossil fuel burning, cement production, and deforestation needs to be brought all the way to zero. The longer it takes to do so, the hotter the world will get. Lack of progress towards decarbonization has created justifiable panic about the climate crisis. This has led to an intensified interest in technological climate interventions that involve increasing the reflection of sunlight to spac...

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Authors: Pierrehumbert, R

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Journal: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Volume: 75
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 215-221
• Publication date: 2019-08-16
• DOI: 10.1080/00963402.2019.1654255
• EISSN: 1938-3282
• ISSN: 0096-3402
• Language: English
• Keywords: climate change; climate crisis; geoengineering; Global warming; carbon budgets; decarbonization; carbon dioxide; greenhouse gas