Could Climate Interventions Slow the Melting of the Cryosphere?
By John Moore - 15 December 2020
This blog is based on a new free to access paper published in the forthcoming special issue of Global Policy, edited by C2G. To access the full article, click here.
The ice sheets, sea ice and permafrost provide little direct economic benefit to nation states, despite their importance for Arctic indigenous peoples. But they do provide extremely important features that enable the present climate to operate as humankind has grown used to.
Arctic sea ice and permafrost have declined rapidly in the last few decades, and the West Antarctic ice sheet is close to (or beyond) the point of widespread, inevitable, collapse.
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