The New Triple Constraints for Sustainable Projects, Programs, and Portfolios

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History and Background of the Science

Chapter 10 outline.

Overlay: The increase in global temperatures resulting from increasing CO₂ in the atmosphere is not a new phenomenon and needs to be accommodated in planning. The amounts of CO₂ emissions into the atmosphere should be reduced to mitigate dangerous warming and climate change.

Arrhenius and other members of the scientific community of the nineteenth century developed the modern understanding of the impact of CO₂ on climate. The science of the significance of CO₂ and the relationship to global warming was actually settled in 1896. Although the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere is only ...