Sentences with phrase «albedo modification strategies»

«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.

In contrast, even the best albedo modification strategies are currently limited by unfamiliar and unquantifiable risks and governance issues rather than direct costs.

Not exact matches

While many albedo - modification techniques have been proposed, the committee said two strategies that could potentially have a significant impact are injection of aerosols into the stratosphere and marine cloud brightening.