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    Challenges (Capacity of Carbon Sinks)

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    The document outlines several challenges related to addressing climate change through various mitigation and adaptation strategies. It discusses issues with carbon sinks becoming destabilized and re-releasing carbon. For renewable energy, it notes reliability issues due to weather dependence and high initial costs. Adaptation faces major challenges for poor countries, including damage to crops from heat leading to food shortages and health impacts like disease. Specific climate engineering approaches like SRM and CDR also face challenges such as regional climate shifts, ozone layer damage, decreased rainfall, high expenses, soil health impacts, and increased toxic algal blooms.

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    Challenges (Capacity of Carbon Sinks)

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    The document outlines several challenges related to addressing climate change through various mitigation and adaptation strategies. It discusses issues with carbon sinks becoming destabilized and re-releasing carbon. For renewable energy, it notes reliability issues due to weather dependence and high initial costs. Adaptation faces major challenges for poor countries, including damage to crops from heat leading to food shortages and health impacts like disease. Specific climate engineering approaches like SRM and CDR also face challenges such as regional climate shifts, ozone layer damage, decreased rainfall, high expenses, soil health impacts, and increased toxic algal blooms.

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    The document outlines several challenges related to addressing climate change through various mitigation and adaptation strategies. It discusses issues with carbon sinks becoming destabilized and re-releasing carbon. For renewable energy, it notes reliability issues due to weather dependence and high initial costs. Adaptation faces major challenges for poor countries, including damage to crops from heat leading to food shortages and health impacts like disease. Specific climate engineering approaches like SRM and CDR also face challenges such as regional climate shifts, ozone layer damage, decreased rainfall, high expenses, soil health impacts, and increased toxic algal blooms.

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    Challenges (Capacity of Carbon Sinks)

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    Syakirin Spears
    The document outlines several challenges related to addressing climate change through various mitigation and adaptation strategies. It discusses issues with carbon sinks becoming destabilized and re-releasing carbon. For renewable energy, it notes reliability issues due to weather dependence and high initial costs. Adaptation faces major challenges for poor countries, including damage to crops from heat leading to food shortages and health impacts like disease. Specific climate engineering approaches like SRM and CDR also face challenges such as regional climate shifts, ozone layer damage, decreased rainfall, high expenses, soil health impacts, and increased toxic algal blooms.

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    Challenges (capacity of carbon sinks)

    The biological pump is sensitive to disturbances. Consequently, it can


    be destabilized and re-emit carbon into the atmosphere. The physical
    pump acts on another time-scale. It is less sensitive to disturbances
    but it is affected on a long-term basis. Once the machine is activated,
    it will be difficult to stop it. This carbon can then be stored in the
    Deep Sea for long geological periods.
    Reforestation- the forested land is too hard to be found as the
    development activities increased. Highly cost.
    Challenges (renewable energy source)
    reliability of supply - often relies on the weather for its source of
    power.
    The current cost of renewable energy technology is also far in excess
    of traditional fossil fuel generation. This is because it is a new
    technology and as such has extremely large capital cost.
    Challenges (adaption)
    Greatest challenges to human especially for the poor countries.
    High temperature will damage the corps and eventually all the food
    source will decrease and this will lead to death because of hunger.
    People also can be affected by the extreme heatwaves.
    Some of the ways global warming negatively affects human health
    include speeding the spread of infectious diseases such as malaria
    and dengue fever; creating conditions that lead to potentially fatal
    malnutrition and diarrhea.
    Challenges (Solar Radiation Management,
    SRM)
    Local imbalances in radiative forcing could still lead to regional
    climate shifts.
    For the injection of sulfate aerosols, the potential for increased
    concentrations of stratospheric aerosols to enhance the ability of
    residual chlorine, left from the legacy of chlorofluorocarbon use, to
    damage the ozone layer, especially in the early spring months at high
    latitudes.
    Sulfate aerosol injection also could decrease rainfall in the Asian and
    African monsoons, thereby affecting food supplies.
    Challenges (Carbon Dioxide Removal, CDR)
    Highly cost.
    Reduction in nitrous oxide emissions is not universal and emissions even
    increase sometimes.
    Fine ash associated with biochar is the perfect source for dust, posing a risk
    for respiratory diseases.
    Long-term removal of crop residues, like stems, leaves and seed pods, to be
    used for production of biochar also can reduce overall soil health.
    Massive areas of the ocean are needed to make it worth it and at least
    200,000 tons of iron will be required to restore the lost algae species.
    Increase algae species that give rise to red tides and other toxic acids
    Increase number of phytoplankton that will produce toxic levels of domoic
    acid which kills some aquatic animals due to imbalances.

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