2024 journal article
Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities for the Control Systems Community
IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE, 44(3), 33–51.
Climate change poses an existential threat to humanity. It is now indisputable that the primary cause of this threat is human activity resulting in high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which began during the Industrial Revolution and have continued to rapidly accelerate. The first warnings of impending and irreversible climate change were sounded decades ago, when governmental and intergovernmental policy makers had sufficient time to enact the changes needed to avoid the dire situation we find ourselves in today.