Sentences with phrase «for geoengineering research»

If we can somehow arrange that we never build another CO2 - emitting device, I would happily call for the geoengineering research budget to remain at $ 0 per year.

The arguments raised against such a concern by advocates for geoengineering research often include ones from three groups: first, largely semantic objections to the term «moral hazard»; second, arguments that taking on more climate risk would be the rational response; and third, claims that experience with the adaptation debate somehow disproves the effect.

At the outset, Broecker develops the theme that drives most of the support for geoengineering research in contemporary society, despair over feckless climate policymaking, or as Broecker characterizes it «nibbles by developed countries... swamped by increased energy demand in traditionally poor countries.»

She is currently a research assistant for the Geoengineering Research Governance Project (GRGP).

Every individual research project may fall below the regulatory threshold proposed by Parson and Keith yet together a handful of projects may change the political and social environment for geoengineering research.

The Relevance of Ethics for Geoengineering Research — Guest Post — Toby Svoboda, Fairfield University

«Determining guidelines for geoengineering research and testing in the absence of that debate is premature and irresponsible.»

Not exact matches

A geophysicist at the University of Washington and director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, he is at the forefront of research on geoengineering, a science that focuses on manipulating the environment to, among other ends, combat climate change.

The planned research program would provide «insight into the science needed to understand potential pathways for climate intervention or geoengineering and the possible consequences of any such measures, both intended and unintended,» the report states.

Currently, none expressly supports geoengineering research, though federal climate science officials have been quietly reviewing the idea for the entirety of the Obama administration.

New research suggests that targeting geoengineering in one hemisphere could have a severely detrimental impact for the other.

A new effort will be launched to craft research restrictions for geoengineering, or large scale efforts to tinker with the planet's climate system

«We don't want to do geoengineering, but we're in increasingly dire straits,» says climate expert Michael MacCracken of the Climate Institute in Washington D.C., who has advocated publicly for research into geoengineering.

Richard Benedick, president of the US National Council for Science and the Environment and a former US government negotiator, circulated a document in which he argued that the principles governing geoengineering research should be developed by a group of 14 nations, including the US, several European nations, India and China.

Although these methods potentially interfere with weather patterns and fail to reduce carbon dioxide concentrations and ocean acidification, Victor and colleagues call for a broad and solid foundation of geoengineering research.

Rasch addressed the Subcommittees on Energy and Environment about the need for a research program to study geoengineering and how such a program might be designed.

Research to date has not determined that there are large - scale geoengineering approaches for which the benefits would substantially outweigh the detriments.

Therefore, the American Meteorological Society recommends: 1) Enhanced research on the scientific and technological potential for geoengineering the climate system, including research on the unintended as well as intended environmental responses.

The biggest funder of geoengineering research has been a nonprofit fund supported by billionaire Bill Gates, which has disbursed some $ 8.5 million for research and meetings since 2007.

Here are two fresh statements, on geoengineering and on the choices being made by Congress — at least so far — in regard to financing for basic energy research as a component of federal legislation on climate:

To be clear: I am not a climate sceptic, but I do feel deeply uncomfortable with the suggestion that ever more research on geoengineering — in particular solar radiation management (SRM)-- is required in order to prepare the world for an impending climatic emergency.

This week's front page New York Times story on geoengineering highlights the need for inclusive and informed discussion on how to responsibly manage research into emerging geoengineering technologies.

Peter C. Frumhoff and Jennie C. Stephen — The Siren Call of US Funding for Solar Geoengineering Research

For example, in a 2011 op - ed calling for more research on geoengineering, Mark Lynas insisted that «playing God is good for the planet.&raqFor example, in a 2011 op - ed calling for more research on geoengineering, Mark Lynas insisted that «playing God is good for the planet.&raqfor more research on geoengineering, Mark Lynas insisted that «playing God is good for the planet.&raqfor the planet.»

Jane A. Flegal and Aarti Gupta — Evoking equity as a rationale for solar geoengineering research?

In short, and contrary to those who call for an unregulated zone (1, 10, 11), governance of geoengineering should precede research.

Lord Rees appeals for research into geoengineering technologies in case efforts to curb carbon emissions fail

But experts have cautioned in Issues that long before the United States takes such a step toward even modest «geoengineering,» it should establish an official oversight mechanism for evaluating research and making public decisions.

To imagine that some kinds of geoengineering research can be quarantined from societal concern and demands for regulation, as Parson and Keith do, requires a belief that pure research can somehow be precipitated out of a social solution using the power of «objectivity» as the precipitant.

Bipartisan Policy Center Task Force on Climate Remediation Research, Geoengineering: A national strategic plan for research on the potential effectiveness, feasibility, and consequences of climate remediation technologies (BPC, Washington, DC, 2011); http://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/report/task-force-climate-remediation-rResearch, Geoengineering: A national strategic plan for research on the potential effectiveness, feasibility, and consequences of climate remediation technologies (BPC, Washington, DC, 2011); http://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/report/task-force-climate-remediation-rresearch on the potential effectiveness, feasibility, and consequences of climate remediation technologies (BPC, Washington, DC, 2011); http://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/report/task-force-climate-remediation-researchresearch.

In Issues, a pioneer in geoengineering has laid out the framework for a comprehensive US research plan, saying it should be part of a coherent climate policy agenda that includes vigorous support for climate science, increases efforts to cut emissions, helps the most vulnerable populations to adapt, develops negative emission technologies, and renews a commitment to growing international governance on climate matters.

I don't think, however, that this result suggests the advent of geoengineering as subject of research and as an issue for public discussion will be a zero sum game for public engagement with climate science.

• If the international community embraces geoengineering as a means for addressing climate change, who will fund, direct and provide oversight for research, development and implementation?

A groundbreaking new CSPO project explores the potential for citizens to usefully inform the governance of solar geoengineering research.

I implored the editor to go to geoengineeringwatch.org and do more research on geoengineering and the fact it's been going on right over our heads for decades.

On the Geoengineering Watch site, the rationale for the alleged geoengineering is, actually, the real motivation behind research on SRM — that global warming is oGeoengineering Watch site, the rationale for the alleged geoengineering is, actually, the real motivation behind research on SRM — that global warming is ogeoengineering is, actually, the real motivation behind research on SRM — that global warming is out of control.

Andy Parker is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, focusing on the politics and governance of research into solar geoengiResearch Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, focusing on the politics and governance of research into solar geoengiresearch into solar geoengineering.

Amongst other roles he served on the UK Research Councils» stage-gate panel for the Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE) project review and is a member of the Integrated Assessment of Geoengineering Potential (IAGP) project advisory group.

Although we can not predict specific impacts of geoengineering with much confidence, we can fruitfully consider the conditions under which geoengineering research would be justified (or not), and ethical theory provides a wealth of resources to sift through the value judgments that arguments for (or against) research inevitably involve.

First, justifications offered for scientific research on geoengineering already involve value judgments of their own, and ethicists are trained to clarify and assess value judgments.

For example, many have claimed that, at some point in the future, deploying geoengineering might be better than allowing emissions - driven climate change to occur unabated — perhaps because geoengineering could avert some climate emergency — and so geoengineering techniques should be researched now in order to be ready for that possible scenarFor example, many have claimed that, at some point in the future, deploying geoengineering might be better than allowing emissions - driven climate change to occur unabated — perhaps because geoengineering could avert some climate emergency — and so geoengineering techniques should be researched now in order to be ready for that possible scenarfor that possible scenario.

So, all in all, I emerged from my research effort willing to advocate a certain amount of research on geoengineering, while also believing that for now and the foreseeable future there should be a moratorium on large scale testing.

This PCIC Science Brief focuses on recent research in the journal Climatic Change that examines a type of geoengineering that involves using biomass for energy production, together with carbon capture and storage.

The Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment drafted and organized the following letter regarding a November 8, 2017 U.S. House of Representatives Science, Space, and Technology Committee hearing about geoengineering research.

In our research, we identify three sets of equity - related arguments advanced by sociotechnical vanguards advocating for more solar geoengineering research.

The geo - clique are lobbying for a huge injection of public funds into geoengineering research, justified on the grounds that «the world» (read America in the era of the Tea Party) will never countenance the carbon abatement policies we so badly need.

The first is a call for more solar geoengineering research as a means to shed light on the distributional outcomes of envisioned futures with and without solar geoengineering.

The second equity - related rationale for more research is a call for comparative risk — risk assessment, underpinned by the claim that equity demands that potential risks and benefits of solar geoengineering be compared to the risks of climate change itself, especially for vulnerable populations.

In this context, a small group of experts advocating for more research into solar geoengineering — what we term, following Stephen Hilgartner, «sociotechnical vanguards,» — are justifying a call for more research, sometimes on equity grounds.

For these reasons, we analyze the content of expert understandings of equity and raise some questions about who and what gets excluded from expert discourses of equity in the context of solar geoengineering research.