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Percentage GDP this represents
Most Useful techinques, what it will cost.. need to increase EPA's budget by what factor?
Tradeoff between different techniques
Solid, certain ideas wherever possible (Despite uncertainty in the problem)
What will happen without it
Pressing Need for geoengineering
Education
Weather Modification & Arid Landscape management
Albedo Modification
Sulphur rockets
Carbon Sequestration
Geological carbon storage
Artifical carbon capture
Tree planting
Iron Fertilisation
All
Cost to do at useful scales
Geoengineering
Motivation
Fix problems
Takes time to implement
Attention needed ~now~, action in timescales of.. Decades?
Why are we focusing on CO2 and not, say, other gases or causes?
Need Argument
Climate change
Effects
Temperature increase
Subtopic
Extremes of weather
Melting
Flooding
Causes
Greenhouse Gases
CO2
Damaging
Human life
Affects those worst off already (Third World)
Loss of life
Displacement of people
Economics
Monetary loss
Irrefutable
A few citations would be nice here
Scope of report
Formulate recommendations
To assess different approaches to the problem
Tried lowering CO_2 emissions, failed
EPA Budget
Think carefully about why we are doing this
