Clarke S. 2022 More Solutions ...

• Main Author: Baiman, Ron
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Mendeley Data 2023
• Subjects: Reference Material; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17632/k6r7ycg7hk; https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/k6r7ycg7hk

Current investment to address climate change is focused mainly on the mitigation of further greenhouse gas emissions by a wide variety of means and a handful of technologies, most of which are designed to extract carbon dioxide from the air and to either to sequester it geologically or to turn it into biomass or useful products. This handful includes Direct Air Capture (DAC) using machinery, Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), and various forms of Afforestation. Even with some likely improvement in cost over time, most reputable analyses indicate that all three will suffer from showstoppers in the form of one or more of: scalability, cost, insufficient resource, timeliness, or risk of reversal under increasing global warming. In addition, none directly addresses the problems of other greenhouse gases, of solar or thermal radiation management, of ocean acidification and stratification, of species and habitat loss, of ice loss, of increasingly extreme weather events, of sea level rise, of ...