Solar geoengineering reduces atmospheric carbon burden

David W. Keith (), Gernot Wagner and Claire L. Zabel
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David W. Keith: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Gernot Wagner: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Claire L. Zabel: The Open Philanthropy Project

Nature Climate Change, 2017, vol. 7, issue 9, 617-619

Abstract: Solar geoengineering is no substitute for cutting emissions, but could nevertheless help reduce the atmospheric carbon burden. In the extreme, if solar geoengineering were used to hold radiative forcing constant under RCP8.5, the carbon burden may be reduced by ∼100 GTC, equivalent to 12–26% of twenty-first-century emissions at a cost of under US$0.5 per tCO2.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3376

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