Sentences with phrase «[about geoengineering»

A geophysicist at the University of Washington and director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, he is at the forefront of research on geoengineering, a science that focuses on manipulating the environment to, among other ends, combat climate change.

Terminator technologies for synthetic biology, GM crops for agrofuels, geoengineering and all of the other false solutions to the energy, climate and food crises enclose vast genetic resources and agrobiodiversity, taking them out of the public realm and into the control of TNCs, especially the US Big Biotech giants Monsanto, Dupont and Arborgen.

Pressure by civil society at the CBD meeting in May resulted in two draft moratoriums against synthetic biology and geoengineering, giving a boost to mobilization against Terminator at the next CBD meeting in Nagoya, Japan, October 18 - 29 2010, where industry will likely try and overturn the moratorium.

«Geoengineering polar glaciers to slow sea - level rise: A researcher suggests a radical solution to prevent catastrophic glacial melting..»

There are some ideas around for geoengineering mega-projects which might counter global warming.

Jeff Goodell is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the author of five books, including How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate, which won the 2011 Grantham Prize Award of Special Merit.

Some of the last great wildernesses are being considered as likely candidates for geoengineering.

The public may balk at geoengineering, but we've got to think boldly if we're going to protect our coasts, says glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk

But judging by the reaction to the pilot experiment, geoengineers will need to employ a delicate public relations strategy as they pursue their research.

«I would like to see them withdraw the test,» says David Keith of the Harvard Kennedy School, who has testified before Congress about geoengineering.

Nicholson says that even if research agencies under Trump avoid research into geoengineering techniques such as albedo modification, the U.S. intelligence community might remain interested, especially in whether other countries are pursuing their own planetary cooling technologies, which could affect many nations.

Some observers quietly worry that, under Trump, a new focus on climate engineering could become part of a justification for delaying government action to curb carbon emissions, with the reasoning that geoengineering technologies could later be used to remove carbon from the atmosphere, or prevent the warming effects of solar radiation.

Most geoengineering exists in a legal void (see «Geoengineers are free to legally hack the climate «-RRB-.

The planned research program would provide «insight into the science needed to understand potential pathways for climate intervention or geoengineering and the possible consequences of any such measures, both intended and unintended,» the report states.

The effect also illustrates one proposal for so - called geoengineering — the deliberate, large - scale manipulation of the planetary environment — that would use various means to create such sulfuric acid aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and thereby hopefully forestall catastrophic climate change.

It's far too early to know what the new administration will do regarding a relatively obscure issue such as geoengineering.

The USGCRP report acknowledges this international aspect of the geoengineering challenge.

Currently, none expressly supports geoengineering research, though federal climate science officials have been quietly reviewing the idea for the entirety of the Obama administration.

One near - term step researchers could take, it says, «is defining the scale and scope of observations and modeling capabilities necessary to detect the signal of any future field experiments» of geoengineering techniques, and ways «to evaluate their consequences.

Yet the new endorsement of geoengineering research comes amid deep uncertainty about the direction that climate research will take under the new administration of President - elect Donald Trump.

A kerfuffle followed over whether the White House was «considering» geoengineering or not.

In theory, CERES would be able to measure the changes caused by geoengineering to, say, make clouds more reflective.

Imagine the world tried geoengineering, and imagine it worked.

Although a number of groups have investigated the potential for geoengineering, researchers continue to find problems with the concept, and former Vice President Al Gore has called the idea «insane.»

These findings illustrate one way geoengineering could be «potentially hazardous,» said Jim Haywood, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Exeter and a lead author on the study.

Ultimately, the authors echoed the popular sentiment that geoengineering should not be viewed as a «cure» for climate change.

Other recent research on geoengineering using solar radiation management has also found that if the practice did begin but was then stopped, it could lead to rapid climate change with potentially hazardous consequences (ClimateWire, Nov. 27, 2013).

The authors said one of the main messages to take from the study is that, if we ever do try geoengineering, don't suddenly stop doing it one day.

Yet nagging doubts remain, stoked by two persistent skeptics: David Pimentel, a professor of ecology and agricultural sciences at Cornell University, and Tad Patzek, a professor of geoengineering from the University of California at Berkeley who started the UC Oil Consortium, an industry - sponsored research group.

However, even if they could measure those changes, geoengineers still would not be able to know how much of an effect their efforts were having on the Earth's reflectivity, she pointed out.

When trying to measure geoengineering effects, researchers can control for some of that variability, which is cyclical — sort of like turning the music volume down in the bar.

Actual geoengineering, however, is a long way from reality.

Geoengineering our climate could inflict a similar fate on some lakes.

In an ideal SRM geoengineering scenario, even as humans warm the Earth by releasing increasing amounts of heat - trapping gases, that warmth would be counterbalanced, since more heat - causing radiation would also be reflected.

One step on the way toward moving the idea forward involves the ability for geoengineers to know if their efforts are working, and to what degree.

The geoengineering technique might have some unintended benefits, like more rainfall, but also consequences if ever interrupted

Because of this, knowing whether the radiation changes CERES measures come from geoengineering or some other effect proves difficult — unless, that is, the engineering effort is so big it drowns out the noise of natural variability.

Hope for a «controlled» suspension All these potential dangers raise the question: Might it be safer to not try geoengineering at all?

In the paper, the authors wrote that «the expectation that humankind would be able to continuously maintain a geoengineering effort at the required level for this length of time is questionable, to say the least.»

This has implications for geoengineering, says Hurtgen.

Geoengineering is the idea of making changes to the Earth in order to counterbalance the effects of climate change.

They blame the geoengineering experiment for disrupting global rainfall cycles and demand its immediate termination.

Both Haywood and Robock suggested a gradual winding down of the geoengineering experiment if it must end, but the planet might not have that luxury, Kravitz said.

Two researchers argue that governments need to coordinate a legal framework to allow for geoengineering experiments

Cool It, a documentary based on his 2007 book of the same name, continues Lomborg's cry to rethink the world's responses to global warming: Abandon toothless agreements about carbon cuts and instead invest in renewable energy, along with geoengineering as a fail - safe.

According to a recent study, the consequences of such a scenario could be even more devastating than not trying geoengineering in the first place.

This poses a particular challenge for the early stages of geoengineering.

And while the meeting was frank about the major problems facing the planet while being relatively upbeat about solving at least some of them, one side session also showed the darker side of global deliberations with a look at some of the options being offered by intentionally manipulating the Earth's climate through geoengineering from dumping iron filings into the ocean to seeding clouds and pumping «designer particles» into the stratosphere.

Catherine Matacic — online news editor for Science — talks with Sarah Crespi about how geoengineering could reduce the harshest impacts of climate change, but make them even worse if it were ever turned off.

Some scientists fear that even talking about such geoengineering will embolden people to keep polluting.