Sentences with phrase «albedo modification technologies»

In contrast, the purpose of albedo modification technologies is to introduce a new form of human influence on the climate system by altering the amount of sunlight absorbed by the Earth.

The Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment's Academic Working Group (AWG) on International Governance of Climate Engineering is an international group of senior academics that have been assembled to formulate perspectives on the international governance of climate engineering research and potential deployment, with a focus on proposed solar radiation management / albedo modification technologies.

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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.

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.

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.

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).

Solar Radiation Management (SRM) or «albedo modification» is a class of technologies that could lower global average temperatures and offset some of the worst impacts of climate change by reflecting a portion of incoming solar radiation back into space before that radiation could be trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

[The Committee] oppose [s] deployment of albedo - modification techniques, but recommend [s] further research, particularly «multiple - benefit» research that simultaneously advances basic understanding of the climate system and quantifies the technologies» potential costs, intended and unintended consequences, and risks.