BIOL 1055 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Solar Radiation Management, Plastic Mulch, Reflectance
Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change — Recommendations
1. Need a budget
2. To meet the budget, we have to:
a. Reduce demand for goods
b. Improve Efficiency
c. Switch to more Climate neutral energy sources
d. Capture and Sequester CO2
Policy Recommendations
- Adopt a C-pricing system
- Complement the C-pricing system
- New technologies— invest in research and stimulate innovation
- Think about equity issues and disadvantaged populations
- U.S. should be a leader
- Allow for flexibility of policies about Greenhouse Gas emission reductions
- Policies must be long-lasting, but also flexible enough to change them as we learn
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Technology Solutions
- Geoengineering— intentional, large-scale intervention in Earth’s systems
- Solar radiation management
- Carbon sequestering
Document Summary
Limiting the magnitude of future climate change recommendations: need a budget, to meet the budget, we have to, reduce demand for goods, improve efficiency, switch to more climate neutral energy sources, capture and sequester co 2. New technologies invest in research and stimulate innovation. Think about equity issues and disadvantaged populations. Allow for flexibility of policies about greenhouse gas emission reductions. Policies must be long-lasting, but also flexible enough to change them as we learn more. Geoengineering intentional, large-scale intervention in earth"s systems. Carbon sequestering (many of these are theoretical at this point) Same effect as volcanic eruption block solar radiation. Sulfuric acid droplets scatter sunlight back into space. Float reflective discs on ocean (white plastic) Cost prohibitive to do at a large scale. Need to figure out where to store. Some worry that this is too easy , will encourage us to keep using fossil fuels. Petrify (or liquefy) co 2 and other other gg.
