Sentences with phrase «albedo modification geoengineering»

Most albedo modification geoengineering is worth avoiding as is ocean iron fertilization, as risks outweigh potential benefits.

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.

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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.

Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.

Although the authors caution that their results are approximations intended to guide future modeling efforts, this study provides fundamental information regarding the relative difficulty of achieving desired albedo modification effects and is an important starting point for understanding the limits of what is widely considered one of the most viable solar geoengineering techniques.

That's the only kind of albedo - modification geoengineering I could countenance, and by the time that is needed, presumably we'll have the wisdom to deploy it safely and the technology to make it robust.

Separating CDR from Albedo Modification has been in the works for a long time — and I am hopeful that this report will definitively end the discussion of whether CDR falls under the geoengineering umbrella.

The ethical and political difficulties deepen when we get to the other kind of geoengineering scheme reviewed in the NRC report, «albedo modification» — formerly known as solar radiation management — schemes to reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface.

The report on albedo modification draws from Long and Scott's (2013) work on vested interests in geoengineering research, identifying «the four Fs», or factors that should be considered in research design and execution.

In February, the National Academies of Science released two major reports on geoengineering, one on carbon dioxide removal technologies (to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and hence reduce the greenhouse effect) and the other on «albedo modification» or solar radiation management technologies (to reflect a fraction of sunlight back to space and thereby cool the planet).

I'd say the perception / communications question goes to the very core of this debate, whether it's carbon dioxide removal or albedo modification aka «solar geoengineering».

I fear that the defining issue of the latter part of the twenty - first century will be the application of geoengineering, particularly albedo modification.