Use artificial intelligence to combat climate change

Recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show that climate change is affecting every region of our planet and that some of the changes -- such as rising temperatures and sea levels -- can only be arrested, but are irreversible. Part of the problem stems from how complex an issue climate change is. It has scientific and economic elements and sociopolitical and ethical ones, and it requires cooperation on a scale hitherto unseen. Halting climate change and responding to the effects of the damage already wrought requires two approaches. The first is mitigation, namely trying to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while reducing emissions.