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Table of Contents:
00:00 Introduction
04:05 Series overview
08:41 Global emissions
11:56 Quiz 1
13:26 The first law of climate change
15:43 Quiz 1 answer
16:40 Stopping emissions
18:04 Climate problem causal chain
24:14 Decarbonization
29:35 Carbon removal
32:39 SRM and CDR
34:13 Quiz 2
35:20 Decarbonization: Is it hopeless?
41:33 Adaptation
43:20 Climate is a 4D problem
46:44 What is climate systems engineering?
54:45 Q&A
Additional Reading:
- Climate Policy Enters Four Dimensions – By David Keith and John Deutch | The Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group | 2020
- This non-technical overview addresses what needs to be done to craft a politically stable and economically sound climate policy that includes balanced reliance on the four mechanisms to manage climate risks, which we call the climate control mechanisms: emissions reduction, adaptation, carbon dioxide removal, and solar radiation modification.
- Optimal climate policy in 3D: mitigation, carbon removal, and solar geoengineering – By Mariia Belaia, Juan B. Moreno-Cruz, and David Keith | Climate Change Economics | 2021
- A technical economics paper that shows how SRM, CDR, and emissions cuts might work together.