1. Introduction
2. Clarifying the Question
3. A Topological Approach
4. Change of Driver
5. Time Delay
6. Of Temperature, Emissions and Concentration
7. Differentiated Feedback
8. Global Warming, Global Heating and Radiative Forcing
9. Endothermic Damping
10. Compound Interest: the Multiplier Effect
11. The Seduction of Simple Systems
12. Power to Intervene
13. Differentiated Interventions
14. Feedback Effect
15. Critical Threshold
16. Dimension of Time
17. Family of Scenarios
18. Environmental Absorption of CO2 Emissions
19. Costs of Control
Appendix 1: Agenda for Research
Appendix 2: Strategic Implications (The Executive Summary)
Notes and References
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