Sentences with phrase «climate geoengineering schemes»

Not exact matches

Reviews of geoengineering techniques for climate control have emphasised that they are not substitutes for emission controls and have identified potentially stronger and weaker schemes.

Alarmed by the lack of progress by governments in finding ways to slow emissions of CO2, climate researchers have begun to examine so - called geoengineering schemes (ScienceNOW, 9 November 2007).

Of course, the craziest geoengineering scheme to date is the one we're already doing: changing the climate with an excess of greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition, a wide range of forcing schemes designed to span the approximate range of uncertainties associated with anthropogenic climate forcing estimates were generated and implemented in order to assess what differences in effects exist between the «best guess» counter-anthropogenic geoengineering forcing scheme and other plausible schemes.

«I hope we'll never need geoengineering schemes, but if a climate catastrophe occurs, I sure hope we will have thought through our options carefully.»

See generally articles citing Bala: Problems with geoengineering schemes to combat climate change

One also has to wonder whether the international treaties and organizations needed to agree on and execute a geoengineering scheme are significantly easier to realize than the agreements needed to decarbonize the energy future, which would offer safer and more durable climate protection.

Geoengineering schemes need ranking system to avoid wasting money, destroying the planet (10/26/2008) Schemes to alter Earth's climate on a planetary scale should be ranked according to their efficacy, cost, risks and their rate of mitigation, argues a new editorial published in Nature Geosschemes need ranking system to avoid wasting money, destroying the planet (10/26/2008) Schemes to alter Earth's climate on a planetary scale should be ranked according to their efficacy, cost, risks and their rate of mitigation, argues a new editorial published in Nature GeosSchemes to alter Earth's climate on a planetary scale should be ranked according to their efficacy, cost, risks and their rate of mitigation, argues a new editorial published in Nature Geoscience.

(01/28/2009) The first comprehensive assessment of the climate cooling potential of different geoengineering schemes has been conducted by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Aerosol injections are the most prominent solar geoengineering scheme, and a tempting one: at under $ 10 billion annually the estimated direct costs are low when compared to the trillions of dollars in climate damages they might help to offset.

Geoengineering schemes are floated as quick turnaround fixes to the accelerating climate change we face.

«My preference is for experiments that have broad utility, both for understanding proposed solar geoengineering schemes and improving our understanding of the natural climate system,» says Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California.

Geoengineering schemes are projects designed to tackle the effects of climate change directly, usually by removing CO2 from the air or limiting the amount of sunlight reaching the planet's surface.

Such grand schemes for «geoengineering» our way out of the climate crisis appeal to the dreamer in us all.

Of course succesful [and continued for as long as CO2 remains elevated] implementation of such geoengineering schemes is almost equally theoretical as switching your CO2 climate model to reverse.

The powerful wealthy Neoliberal Cult (who currently run the world) have a full spectrum response to AGW / CC... it includes carbon trading schemes and the Paris Climate Agreement and Geoengineering fictions.