MacCracken, Michael C. (2016): The Rationale for Accelerating Regionally Focused Climate Intervention Research
MacCracken, Michael C. (2016): The Rationale for Accelerating Regionally Focused Climate Intervention Research. In: Earth’s Future. DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000450.
„Given the still limited international success along the path to the phase-out of greenhouse-gas-emitting energy generating technologies and the consequent inevitability of worsening impacts, this paper suggests that researching and potentially deploying impact-focused, regional interventions may provide a means for both moderating some of the worst impacts and improving understanding of that could be useful in preparing for global interventions, if that should eventually be viewed as necessary. Investigating and exploring early implementation of regionally and tropospheric-focused approaches that would moderate Arctic warming, tropical cyclone intensification, the increasing loss of ice from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and help in counteracting the coming loss of the sulfate offset would seem to be the highest priorities to explore.“