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This Climate Debate is a lot of Hot Air

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We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. degree Celsius targets set by the Paris Agreement, what other policies are available? If we overshoot the 1.5

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The Fuss about Methane

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The issue is that total human radiative forcing includes several parts that heat and some that cool, so counting separate heating contributions like this leaving out the cooling parts gives too much heating.). Even the Paris Rulebook specifies 100-year GWPs, although it also authorizes the use of other metrics (i.e.,