Carbon Dioxide
The industrial revolution was the starting point of an ongoing increase in carbon emissions, which inevitably leads to global warming. To avoid a major climate catastrophe, we need to (a) drastically reduce carbon emissions and (b) actively remove carbon from the atmosphere. Will humans succeed in adopting new behaviors and developing live-saving technologies in time?
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Climate Change
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Vast bioenergy plantations could suck up carbon and stave off climate change. They would also radically reshape the planet.
Julia Rosen
Science, 2018
There are reasons to be optimistic that the world will break its addiction to fossil fuels. But time is running out.
Jeff Tollefson
Nature, 2018
CO2 could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe.
Elizabeth Kolbert
The New Yorker, 2017
Article
The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention.
Helena Bottemiller Evich
Politico Magazine, 2017
Abby Rabinowitz and Amanda Simson
Wired, 2017
Xuemei Bai and colleagues call for long-term, cross-disciplinary studies to reduce carbon emissions and urban risks from global warming.
Xuemei Bai et al.
Nature, 2018
Article
Good Idea in Theory, Failing in Practice
Jeffrey Ball
Foreign Affairs, 2018
A surcharge on energy producers would fund climate adaptation and the low-carbon transition, suggest Anthony J. Webster and Richard H. Clarke.
Anthony J. Webster and Richard H. Clarke
Nature, 2017
Emissions will keep declining, but likely not enough for the United States to meet 2025 goal
Warren Cornwall
Science, 2017
