If you have explored the RAF site and want to know more about global warming, RAF invites you to take a Deep Dive into the mechanisms fuelling climate change and their consequences — for both our planet and our economies.
Across fourteen chapters, Marc Salzer Levi presents the science, the economics, and the case for action.
- Chapters 1 – 12 set out the peer-reviewed, fact-based science proving that global warming is real, accelerating, and consequential.
- Chapter 13 presents the economic evidence that rapidly transitioning to renewable energy — and phasing out most biofuels, factory farming and factory fishing — would not only save the planet but also deliver substantial financial and health benefits.
- Chapter 14 argues that, despite widespread denial and apathy, a Climate Repair Deal is still feasible — and that Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) may give humanity the time it needs to implement it.
Chapters 2 – 14 are being checked for copyright clearance and will become available in the course of 2026.
Table of contents
Introduction
Why a deep dive — and the “napkin diagram” of the three Rs: Reduce, Remove, Refreeze.
Chapter 1. How it all begun
The Industrial Revolution, the Keeling curve, and how 150 years of fossil fuels broke 10,000 years of climate stability.
Chapter 2. Greenhouse gases absorb IR radiation emitted by Earth— coming soon
The first half of the greenhouse effect: how CO2 and other GHGs trap heat that the Earth radiates back to space.
Chapter 3. Greenhouse gases re-emit infrared radiation— coming soon
The second half of the mechanism, and why concentrations matter so much.
Chapter 4. A quantification of energy fluxes— coming soon
The Earth’s energy budget in numbers — incoming, outgoing, and the imbalance.
Chapter 5. El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)— coming soon
Why one of nature’s largest climate cycles now interacts with human-caused warming.
Chapter 6. Why is the Arctic heating up 3-4 times faster than the average?— coming soon
Arctic amplification — why the poles are the planet’s most fragile region.
Chapter 7. Soot— coming soon
Black carbon: a small particle with an outsized effect on Arctic ice.
Chapter 8. Vortexes— coming soon
How a weakened polar vortex sends extreme weather south.
Chapter 9. Tipping Points— coming soon
The most existential and most underestimated aspect of global warming.
Chapter 10. Probabilities — how to beat the odds— coming soon
A risk-based view: not “what is most likely?” but “what would a sane planner choose?”.
Chapter 11. A better understanding of global warming— coming soon
Synthesis: the lines of evidence and what they collectively prove.
Chapter 12. Ozone layer depletion— coming soon
Lessons from a planetary problem we actually solved (Montreal Protocol).
Chapter 13. The economic cost of global warming— coming soon
Why the renewable transition — and ending biofuels — would put money back in our pockets.
Chapter 14. Climate change denial and a message of hope— coming soon
The Climate Repair Deal — Reduce, Remove, Refreeze — with Marine Cloud Brightening to buy us time.
Author · Marc Salzer Levi.
Editorial & copyright clearance · Jan van Breugel and Barbara Veldhuis (IP specialist), Refreeze the Arctic Foundation.
