Sentences with phrase «for solar geoengineering research»

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

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

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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.

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

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.

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

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.

The Americans — who published their findings on Sunday in Nature Climate Change — ran two different climate models, CAM3.5 and HadCM3L — the one devised by the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and the other by the UK Met Office's Hadley Centre and simulated a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, temperature - compensating stratospheric solar radiation management (SRM) geoengineering — and compared precipitation changes.

Respectively they were the chair and senior policy adviser for the Royal Society's landmark report on geoengineering in 2009, and today they are co-chair and project director for an international initiative to expand discussion of the governance of solar geoengineering research to developing countries (www.srmgi.org).

The two of us were among a group of international experts asked to propose and critique a number of policy options, such as avoiding methane emissions, improving forestry practices, increased spending for energy technology innovation and researching solar radiation management, a form of geoengineering.

Earlier this month, MacMartin, Keith and Prof Katharine Ricke, a climate scientist from the University of California, San Diego, published a research paper exploring how solar geoengineering — via releasing aerosols into the stratosphere — could be used as part of an «overall strategy» for limiting global warming to 1.5 C, which is the aspirational target of the Paris Agreement.

How the ledger is likely to balance out globally, and particularly for the global South, is unknown, yet that is precisely the reason why more research on solar geoengineering is so urgently needed.

The document, drafted by representatives of the Oxford Geoengineering Programme, suggested some steps forward for governing solar geoengineeGeoengineering Programme, suggested some steps forward for governing solar geoengineeringgeoengineering research.

«Ice911 Research: Preserving and Rebuilding Reflective Ice», presented as part of Strategies for Cooling Earth: Solar Geoengineering and Carbon Dioxide Removal I Posters, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2014.