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Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention

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Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries thereafter, temperatures will remain elevated; climate damages will continue to accrue and sea levels will continue to rise. Even the urgent and utterly essential task of reaching net zero cannot be achieved rapidly by emissions reductions alone. To hasten net zero and minimize climate damages thereafter, we will also need massive carbon removal and storage. We may even need to reduce incoming solar radiation in order to lower unacceptably high temperatures. Such unproven and potentially risky climate interventions raise mind-blowing questions of governance and ethics. Pandora's Toolbox offers readers an accessible and authoritative introduction to both the hopes and hazards of some of humanity's most controversial technologies, which may nevertheless provide the key to saving our world.

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  • Provides an overview of climate change to clarify why mitigation and adaptation are necessary but not sufficient
  • Provides a comprehensive review of the portfolio of climate intervention technologies and theories
  • Addresses the political, ethical, and social implications of climate intervention
Author: Smith Wake
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Cover: Hardback
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Prologue
Part I. Climate Introduction:
1. Where Do We Stand On Climate Change?
2. Climate Science 101
3. What's So Bad About Climate Change?
4. Climate Negotiations
5. Climate Economics
Part II. Responses to Climate Change:
6. The Energy Transition
7. Other Mitigation
8. Adaptation
9. Our Descendants Will Demand Climate Intervention
Part III. Carbon Removal:
10. Natural Solutions
11. Industrial Carbon Capture & Sequestration
12. Direct Air Capture
Part IV. Solar Radiation Management:
13. Solar Radiation Management Alternatives
14. Stratospheric Aerosol Injection
15. Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Deployment
Part V. Social Ramifications of Climate Intervention:
16. Governance of Carbon Removal
17. Governance of Solar Radiation Management
18. Climate Ethics
19. Public Perception
Part VI. Prospective Research Agenda:
20. The Path Forward for Carbon Dioxide Removal
21. The Path Forward for Solar Radiation Management
Epilogue.

Wake SmithHarvard University, Massachusetts
As a lecturer at Yale University, Wake Smith teaches a world-leading undergraduate course on climate intervention, which forms the basis for this book. Smith is also a Senior Fellow at Harvard, writing scholarly articles on costs, aeronautics, and governance of solar geoengineering. Prior to his academic career, Smith served in several executive roles in the aeronautical industry, including as the President of a division of Boeing.

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