As it stands, corporate agribusiness, industrial forestry, the garbage and sewage industry and agricultural biotechnology have literally killed the climate stabilizing capacity of the Earth's living soil.
To that end, when Autodesk created its greenhouse gas reduction goal-setting strategy – Corporate Finance Approach to Climate-Stabilizing Targets (C-FACT) – it decided to open-source the methodology and encourage all companies to use it.
"Whether the probability is high, medium, or low, I think the response is the same: climate cannot be stabilized without an energy technology revolution," he said.
Cleaner, cheaper energy and a stabilized climate shouldn't be sacrificed at the altar of immediate, short-term profits from carbon-based or highly risky energy sources.
This suggests that during glacial climates the stabilizing effect of vegetation determines eolian sedimentation rates, rather than wind speed.
Here's a public appeal by several such scientists, urging greater support for nuclear energy, noting that "While it may be theoretically possible to stabilize the climate without nuclear power, in the real world there is no credible path to climate stabilization that does not include a substantial role for nuclear power".
But for the last decade, carbon dioxide has been the main target of climate experts and diplomats trying to stabilize climate.
"An overwhelming objection is that exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts," NASA's James Hansen wrote recently.
Mountain glaciers have reflected sunlight to help stabilize climate for 10,000 years, and they slowly release water that nourishes nature and human populations.
The academies also said it was necessary to study artificial "geoengineering" methods for stabilizing climate, as well as large-scale reforestation.
