Sentences with phrase «effects of geoengineering research»

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

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We really don't know the effects of geoengineering but that is why we're doing this research.»

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.

Rachel Smolker and Almuth Ernsting of Biofuelwatch agreed, repeating a claim commonly made by opponents of research on geoengineering: «the negative effects of different types of geoengineering would likely be felt most dramatically in the global South.»

Remarkably, the report included a 23 - page discussion of the climatic effects of increased concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), due to the combustion of fossil fuels, and — interestingly enough — concluded with a proposal for research on a specific approach to responding, namely with what is now called «geoengineering.»