Sentences with phrase «funder of geoengineering research»
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.
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Peter C. Frumhoff and Jennie C. Stephen — The Siren Call of US Funding for Solar Geoengineering Research
The scientists in this group — dubbed the «geo - clique» by author Eli Kintisch — also allocate much of the funds to geoengineering research via a private trust, bring together young researchers from around the world to swap ideas under their auspices, and own patents and investments in geoengineering technologies.
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.
SPICE is a United Kingdom government funded geoengineering research project that collaborates with the university of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Bristol to further examine the idea of Solar Radiation Management (SRM)-- which is the idea that injecting stratospheric aerosols into the atmosphere could combat global warming.
With regard to SRM, the lack of public funding has meant that some geoengineering experimentalists are pursuing private financing to conduct field research on solar radiation management.