Is carbon dioxide removal ‘mitigation of climate change’?

Is atmospheric carbon dioxide removal a game changer for climate change mitigation?

The ability to directly remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere allows the decoupling of emissions and emissions control in space and time. We ask the question whether this unique feature of carbon dioxide removal technologies fundamentally alters the dynamics of climate mitigation pathways. The analysis is performed in the coupled energyeconomy-climate model ReMIND using the bioenergy with C...

Pcic Science Brief: Is Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Removal a Game Changer for Climate Change Mitigation?

University House 1, PO Box 1700, STN CSC, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3R4 Phone: 250-721-6236 | Fax: 250-721-7217 | pacificclimate.org Recent work by Kriegler et al. (2013) in the journal Climatic Change finds that removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with a combination of biomass combustion and carbon capture, together with the storage of resulting ca...

Carbon Dioxide Fertilisation and Climate Change Policy

Can increasing carbon dioxide cause climate change?

The realistic physical functioning of the greenhouse effect is reviewed, and the role of dynamic transport and water vapor is identified. Model errors and uncertainties are quantitatively compared with the forcing due to doubling CO2, and they are shown to be too large for reliable model evaluations of climate sensitivities. The possibility of directly measuring climate sensitivity is reviewed....

Climate change and carbon dioxide: an introduction.

Since the dawn of history, human beings have had the ability, superior to all other living beings, to exploit the Earth’s environment to their own immediate advantage. For most of human history the consequences were only of local or regional significance. Over the past century, however, the rapid rise in population and the increasing intensity and scale of human enterprises have made it possibl...