Climate Change and Climate Geoengineering

Science, Technology, Uncertainties, and Risks

Filipe Duarte Santos, Yvette Ramos

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9781032470726
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040728093
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Biology

This book discusses climate change and responses to its risks-mitigation, adaptation, and geoengineering–within an increasingly ideological and geopolitically charged climate debate. It provides a detailed analysis of the scientific basis, feasibility, governance, costs, uncertainties, and risks associated with different forms of geoengineering, particularly Solar Radiation Modification (SRM). Although climate change is very unlikely to cause "civilizational collapse" or "global collapse", insufficient climate action is expected to cause harmful impacts that could severely affect much of humanity. SRM would introduce additional uncertainties and risks. Effective mitigation and adaptation depend on moral responsibility and a strong commitment to intra- and intergenerational justice.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
• 1. General Introduction, Scope, and Motivation for the Book
• 2. Humans and Climate
• 3. Historical Background: Weather Modification and Warfare, Chemtrails and Climate Geoengineering
• 4. A Methodology for Analysing Anthropogenic Climate Change and Climate Geoengineering Based on Human Critical Determinants for Sustainability: Transformations to Sustainability and the Post-WWII Transformation
• 5. Anthropogenic Climate Change. The Science, the Impacts, and the Human Responses. Mitigation and Adaptation
• 6. Different Forms of Geoengineering: Risks, Uncertainties, International Relations, and Governance
• 7. Environmental, Social, and Economic Dimensions of Geoengineering
• 8. Challenges of Regulating Geoengineering at the Global Level
• 9. A Governance Model for SRM?
• 10. Conclusions
• References
• Index