Surviving global warming why eliminating greenhouse gases isn't enough
This provocative and important overview of the challenges of and possible approaches to climate change by an expert and shared recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize is essential reading for policy makers, climate scientists, and lay persons alike. Though the Paris Agreement on climate change was a signif...
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Amherst, New York
Prometheus Books,
2019.
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| Online Access: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/1874835.pdf |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Climate change : where are we now?
- Al Gore and the greenhouse gas theory : Plan A
- Natural climate change : GHGs are not the whole answer
- Plan A, mitigation : a bridge too far?
- Plan B, the adaptation solution
- Adaptation through reflectivity and geoengineering
- The politics of adaptation vs. mitigation
- "Plan B" as insurance
- Where from here? : next steps as well as summary and conclusions.