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In
Rebalancing Our Climate, Eelco J. Rohling documents a wealth of ways to adjust the trajectory of climate change. The book evaluates both advantages and disadvantages of changing our behavior for a sustainable future.
Sommario
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: The Introduction: Outline of the Challenge
- Chapter 2: The Problem: The Human-Caused Climate Crisis
- Chapter 3: The No-Brainer: Emissions Reduction
- Chapter 4: The New Kid on the Block: Negative Emission Through Greenhouse Gas Removal
- Chapter 5: The Controversial One: Solar Radiation Management
- Chapter 6: The Inevitable One: Impacts and Adaption
- Chapter 7: The Behavioral Renaissance: Re-forming Society
- Chapter 8: The Future: Toward Rebalancing Climate
- Chapter 9: Conclusions
- Appendix 1: Climate Feedbacks
- Appendix 2: Indicative Future Projection for Carbon Removal by Nets
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Eelco J. Rohling is Professor of Ocean and Climate Change at the Australian National University. He is secondarily affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Rohling earned his PhD from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1991, and his post-doctoral research was split between Utrecht and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. He is former joint chief editor of Paleoceanography, current editor of Reviews of Geophysics, and founding chief editor of Oxford Open Climate Change. He is Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science and of the American Geophysical Union. A Web of Science 2019 "Highly Cited Researcher," Rohling is also a former recipient of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and an Australian Laureate Fellowship. His research focuses on ocean and climate change with emphasis on sea level, climate sensitivity, and past episodes of enhanced carbon burial in ocean sediments.
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In Rebalancing Our Climate, Eelco J. Rohling documents a wealth of ways to adjust the trajectory of climate change. The book evaluates both advantages and disadvantages of changing our behavior for a sustainable future.
Testo aggiuntivo
Rebalancing Our Climate is an authoritative and cogent analysis of climate science and what must be done to build a decent and durable global civilization. It is essential reading!
