Sentences with phrase «about geoengineering for»

In this workshop, we avoid a view of public engagement as popularizing scientific information, increasing public literacy about geoengineering for its own sake, or encouraging compliance; likewise, we are mindful of the political risks associated with «decide - announce - defend.»

Maybe I just wasn't aware all this time, I've only known about geoengineering for under two years, but still I feel it's recently gotten worse with people (climate skeptics) in this cause ranting about the «carbon credits», «Co2 is not a threat», «there's less Co2 than they say», «it's not manmade», «it's a natural cycle» blah blah blah.

Our head isn't in the sand: ETC Group has been encouraging global discussion about geoengineering for nearly a decade.

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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.

A magnitude - 9 earthquake in Japan, a momentous climate change summit, reports on future global «hyperwarming», and rumblings about some of the first geoengineering field trials all made 2011 a remarkable year for the environmental sciences.

Another plea in your pages for geoengineering (12 September, p 34) makes me wonder if I am alone in my concern about the potential for warlike abuse of these techniques.

Rasch addressed the Subcommittees on Energy and Environment about the need for a research program to study geoengineering and how such a program might be designed.

Daniel Bailey at # 42, thanks for the link, but that seems to be about geoengineering.

I don't want to see this thread get hung up on geoengineering but the device Hank describes offers some nice opportunities for thinking about infrared radiative transfer and the greenhouse effect, so let's all give it a go.

We also need more open, balanced discussion about global warming itself, since that is the justification for even considering geoengineering.

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For the past 6 years, Oliver Morton, a longtime editor at The Economist, has been following their work, testing their ideas, thinking about the practical implications of geoengineering — and the philosophical implications, too.

How about oil giants such as ExxonMobil, which for years funded climate - science disinformation and is now talking up the prospects of geoengineering.

Oliver Morton: Well, there's a way of talking about geoengineering that's too large for me.

I study nuclear power and have for over 20 years and now focus on getting the word out about geoengineering.

Whatever your motive for participating in what can only be considered a campaign of climate engineering cover - up, rest assured that we, at GeoengineeringWatch.org, will do our best to publicly expose you (and all those like you who are participating in the climate engineering cover - up) to populations that deserve to know the truth about the ongoing highly destructive and dangerous geoengineering programs that were long ago deployed without public knowledge or consent.

and what about the 400 + nuclear reactors worldwide that need workers and constant maintainance to keep them running so they do nt go in to full blown meltdown and make the planet a radioactive wasteland eh + the unstoppable feedback loop of methane release and the earths athmosphere becoming more like venus... the elitists do nt seem so worried that geoengineering is destroying their planet too... maybe because they've got the deep underground military bases or hardened bunkers that can sustain them for many years or might the real manipulators not be from the earth itself??

The Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment drafted and organized the following letter regarding a November 8, 2017 U.S. House of Representatives Science, Space, and Technology Committee hearing about geoengineering research.

For these reasons, we analyze the content of expert understandings of equity and raise some questions about who and what gets excluded from expert discourses of equity in the context of solar geoengineering research.

I've been documenting the geoengineering in this area for about five years by taking pictures and movies of what I see.

If he's worried about ice ages, perhaps he should ponder the selfishness of squandering what could have been a useful geoengineering resource to future generations faced with an imminent glaciation; carefully burning fossil fuels to enhance the greenhouse effect just enough to maintain temperatures in the face of declining northern - hemisphere insolation due to the Milankovich cycles may well be the most cost - effective method for them to do so, if those resources are still around at the time.

Nothing we know about solar geoengineering should distract you from the task of agreeing deep and binding cuts in CO2 emissions, and effective support for adaptation to climate change.

So I suggest we should very concerned about whether the relevant decision makers have the necessary moral character to take tough decisions on mitigation and adaptation, rather than adopting the hope of geoengineering as an excuse for not upsetting political allies, campaign funders or particular groups of voters.

The pressure to get serious about geoengineering — still a fringe vision, for now — is only going to grow.

What do you think about geoengineering (like emulating volcano induced freezing) approaches for mitigating Global Warming?

Ethicist Stephen Gardiner has suggested a quite different reason for not worrying about the disincentive effects of geoengineering research.

Some thoughts about geoengineering ideas...... they are endless and limited only by our imagination; the most far - out can qualify for entry into the discussion if the sponsor cares to offer it.

But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the next climate change convention slated for December.

``... What do you do if nations disagree about what kind of climate they want...» is no more an issue for geoengineering than it is for truly effective Kyoto - like agreements.

Even people who don't know about geoengineering per se would, in this techno day and age, allow for the possibility that weather modification might be a real option.