Gentle tweaks to the status quo stopped being a climate option when we supersized the American Dream in the 1990s, and then proceeded to take it global.
Treasury has been on about strategic tax reform for a while, they also have been seriously modelling climate policy options since 2007 (I provided background on science and benefits of avoided damages).
The investigation seeks to analyze informed rather than mere opinion-based public preferences towards electricity technologies and portfolios against the background of climate mitigation options.
There is only a weak empirical base for policy-makers to stand on regarding the comparative innovation effects of various climate policy options, however.
In the end, it doesn't matter whether a president's policy is motivated by trying to tame the atom, or tame the climate, the options are constrained and the requirements staggering.
The patent application describes a system where a user could store their configuration profiles for seat, steering wheel and mirror position on their devices, as well as things like climate control options for instant customization when getting into a car.
CCS impacts need to be communicated with policy makers, stakeholders, the environmental community, and general public to educate them on the possibilities and limitations of CCS approach compared to other climate mitigation options.
The IPCC AR5 report suggests a growing demand for research to provide information for a deeper and more useful understanding of climate adaptation options, and indicates a lack of effective methods to meet this increasing demand of policymakers.
In the first two IPCC reports, the social sciences focused on climate mitigation options - looking at how to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or recapture and sequester carbon generated by human activities[ 36].
A climate geoengineering option like SRM, in contrast, "has the potential to cool down the planet very quickly".
