Sentences with phrase «climate geoengineering»
«Overview of Climate Geoengineering Options.»
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Burns» research primarily focuses on climate geoengineering governance — or, the deliberate and large - scale intervention of our climate system with the goal of counteracting climate change, and the policies needed to achieve that goal.
«Into the Great Wide Open: The Promise and Potential Perils of Climate Geoengineering Options.»
That was certainly the overarching mood at the recent IASS conference on climate geoengineering in Potsdam, Germany.
The profound implications of research and potential deployment of climate geoengineering approaches compel urgent attention to public participation at all stages of decision - making, from framing issues to evaluating options and scenarios, setting priorities, codifying decisions, and implementing policies and programs.
The paper is a «welcome input into the overall debate» on SRM, adds Janos Pasztor, executive director of the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2) and former assistant UN secretary - general.
«The Policy Exigencies Driving the Push for Climate Geoengineering Research.»
Such sobering scenarios have intensified interest in climate geoengineering options, including one focused on in the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report's discussion of geoengineering, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).
Experts and decision makers are getting desperate, which may be why they have begun discussing drastic efforts such as climate geoengineering.
The radiative forcing potential of different climate geoengineering options [PDF].
«Current Status of Climate Geoengineering Research in the United States.»
There may come a moment when the situation becomes «so dire that doing climate geoengineering of this sort is better than the alternative — doing nothing,» he says.
If the U.S. is in a battle with the U.N. and is not bound by the 2010 convention banning large - scale climate geoengineering, it raises the question of what an unpredictable and impulsive administration might do.
The new report is probably the most substantial and authoritative since Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen made at least the discussion of climate geoengineering respectable again (Science, 20 October 2006, p. 401).
Climate geoengineering seriously suffers from this problem.
From what I know, theoretically it should be possible, as the various climate geoengineering options proposed would have impacts precisely on the temperatures that drive hurricane intensity;
Climate geoengineering schemes come under fire — Nature.
It is yet another warning that the mainstream media's exuberance about climate geoengineering options as a silver bullet may be belied by evidence on the ground.
Pertinent to climate geoengineering observers, Zubrin also argued that the experiment helped to demonstrate the merits of ocean iron fertilization (OIF), concluding that «since those diatoms that were not eaten went to the bottom, a large amount of carbon dioxide was sequestered in their calcium carbonate shells.»
«Solar Radiation Management Climate Geoengineering: The Role of Intergenerational Equity.»
«SRM Climate Geoengineering and Intergenerational Equity.»
«Ocean - Based Climate Geoengineering: Promise and Peril.»
A more grounded reading suggests that — like fossil fuel exploitation — human activities to fix nitrogen (for explosives and fertilizers) are — at most — «unintentional» geoengineering, and the responses Morton praises in the management of nitrogen have much more in common with carbon mitigation than they do with climate geoengineering.
It is generally placed under the rubric of climate geoengineering strategies termed «carbon dioxide removal» options, in contrast to strategies that seek to reduce incoming solar radiation to reduce total radiative forcing.
Until then, research on global climate geoengineering will continue while countries, states, and counties buy the local weather and we anxiously watch a new administration eager to assert its power.
A 2014 study by Malcolm Wright, Damon Teagle, and Pamela Feetham, titled «A Quantitative Evaluation of the Public Response to Climate Engineering,» provides an important step in the development of our understanding of the public's reaction to six climate geoengineering alternatives.
The Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative aims» to encourage the development of governance for research on climate geo - engineering that is balanced between enabling and regulatory aspects.»
While cloud - seeding geoengineering of local weather is common, developments in the technology have extended the possibility for geoengineering use on a larger scale for climate geoengineering, or global climate control.
«The Paris Agreement and Climate Geoengineering Options.»
«The Potential Impacts of Climate Geoengineering on Biodiversity and Potential International Regime Responses.»
Climate geoengineering has been defined as «the intentional large - scale manipulation» of the climate system with the intent to counteract the global warming effects of anthropogenic CO2 emissions.
The article, which ran on the front page, is one among a number of signs that talk of climate geoengineering is moving from the fringes of the climate change conversation toward the mainstream.
Hamilton explains why he believes the idea of climate geoengineering can not be ignored, and what forces he sees pushing the world towards eventual deployment of such technologies.
His current areas of research focus are: climate geoengineering; international climate change litigation; adaptation strategies to address climate change, with a focus on the potential role of micro-insurance; and the effectiveness of the European Union's Emissions Trading System.
[2] Despite its challenges and downsides, climate geoengineering may be the best chance we have for maintaining a planet that is habitable for humans and the other creatures who are our neighbors.
First, modification of individual hurricanes would fall under the topic of weather modification, rather than climate geoengineering; and second, there is not nearly as much research on [hurricane modification] as on the possible effects of climate geoengineering on slowing the melting of ice sheets.
Climate Geoengineering Governance: Expanding the Conversation — Guest Post — Mihir Shah, Council on Energy, Environment & Water, India
Climate Geoengineering: «Scary» Idea Should Be Tried Out — NBC News.
In addition, the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2) has been established to «encourage a broader, society - wide discussion about the risks, potential benefits, ethical and governance challenges raised by climate geoengineering».
«The Politics of Climate Geoengineering.»