Sentences with phrase «albedo modification approaches»

«Albedo modification strategies could rapidly cool the planet's surface but pose environmental and other risks that are not well understood and therefore should not be deployed at climate - altering scales; more research is needed to determine if albedo modification approaches could be viable in the future,» NAS said.

Again, carbon removal approaches need strict and thorough governance and ethical consideration, but the type of governance questions for carbon removal are of a nature best addressed in conjunction with conventional climate mitigation approaches, not in conjunction with albedo modification approaches.

Given the divergence between carbon removal and albedo modification approaches, I recommend removing any language in the USGCRP's update to the strategic plan that combines research efforts of albedo modification and carbon removal approaches.

The deployment of CDR techniques is limited by their cost, not by their riskiness or likely effectiveness (as is the case for Albedo Modification approaches).

The report clearly states that the first - best option for preventing climate change is stopping GHG emissions, and that neither the development of CDR approaches nor the development of Albedo Modification approaches will change this finding.

«It's hard to unthrow that switch once you embark on an albedo modification approach.

Not exact matches

When Douglas MacMartin of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena approached the National Science Foundation for support on a modeling effort on [albedo modification], officials told him the work was too theoretical for the engineering division and too applied for the atmospheric science program.

In other words, rather than presenting climate engineering, and especially solar radiation management (rebranded «albedo modification»), as an extreme response to be avoided if at all possible, the report normalises climate engineering as one approach among others.

After portraying albedo modification geoengineering approaches as only a «band aid» that could help ameliorate climatic impacts until we found permanent solutions, Broecker focuses on air capture as such a potential permanent solution.