Sentences with word «geoengineering»

A survey of geoengineering research in a piece by Michael Specter in The New Yorker last year introduced the chemotherapy analogy to me.

These scenarios can then be fed into models to quantify potential outcomes of solar geoengineering for people and the environment.

Panel Urges More Research on Geoengineering as a Tool Against Climate Change — New York Times.

«Current Status of Climate Geoengineering Research in the United States.»

But that depends on how we control carbon emissions from this point onwards, and whether or not we engage in geoengineering projects.

Otto then takes us through the failure of cap - and - trade as an originally Republican idea that is now ridiculed as experimenting with the economy, and the rise of proposals for geoengineering solutions such as sulfur aerosol injections — an idea that «is easily the riskiest suggestion in the history of human civilization,» which resembles «taking up a crack habit.»

Did you catch the part where Prince was talking about geoengineering on TV?

And second, this framing elevates the idea of solar geoengineering as a viable climate change abatement strategy vastly above the current scientific consensus on this topic, painting carbon removal solutions in a much more radical light than do most climate experts.

Climate geoengineering schemes come under fire — Nature.

See generally articles citing Bala: Problems with geoengineering schemes to combat climate change

In his article on geoengineering solutions to climate change, Clive Hamilton criticises our promotion of «market - driven solutions» (17 July, p...

They argue that any future solar geoengineering projects need to be geared toward reducing the risk of such a catastrophe as much as possible.

It revealed what Mercer described as a surprisingly high level of public awareness about geoengineering techniques.

The extremely varied temperature extremes are indicative of the «weather whiplash» effect being created by global geoengineering programs.

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

Yet opposition to the techno - fix is also more entrenched in the United States, and would likely be rallied to defeat the Prometheans if geoengineering proposals became serious, leaving China the most likely power to assume the role of global climate regulator.

I think we have been doing geoengineering for a couple of thousand years.

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.

Point # 2: Solar geoengineering approaches provide far too radical of an anchor of comparison for carbon removal solutions.

Larger - scale climate response tests or deployment of geoengineering at material scales are likely to cause a risk of significant harm to the environment or human safety.

Embarking on a planetary - scale aerosol geoengineering project would produce «a wide range of unintended regional consequences,» Samset says.

And if geoengineering with aerosols works to offset warming?

Nicholson says that even if research agencies under Trump avoid research into geoengineering techniques such as albedo modification, the U.S. intelligence community might remain interested, especially in whether other countries are pursuing their own planetary cooling technologies, which could affect many nations.

The researchers made it clear in Tuesday's press conference that they do not advocate using geoengineering as an excuse for humanity to continue recklessly emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.»

The innovative research centres on the impact solar geoengineering methods that inject aerosols into the atmosphere may have on the frequency of tropical cyclones.

The list of environmentally devastating factors directly relating to the ongoing geoengineering programs is very long.

Alarmed by the lack of progress by governments in finding ways to slow emissions of CO2, climate researchers have begun to examine so - called geoengineering schemes (ScienceNOW, 9 November 2007).

Twin ensembles will be investigated for responses to IPCC A1B emissions scenario between 2000 and 2080, both with and without geoengineering activities starting in 2005.

To build the capacity for an informed global dialogue on geoengineering governance, a critical mass of well - informed individuals throughout the world must be developed, and they must talk to each other, as well as to their own networks.

A conference in the UK this week is discussing the pros and cons of such geoengineering methods.

Sorry to double post, but putting sulfate particles into the air to dim the sun is a strawman argument against geoengineering since using engineered particles instead would be much less expensive and could be designed to avoid damaging the ozone layer:

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.

The people who don't like geoengineering will suggest the IPCC is a method for normalising it.»

Greenhouse gas reductions remain the priority The termination effect is one example of how geoengineering experiments can differ.

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

In an essay published in the May / June 2014 issues of The Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, we built on this theme to argue that the conversation on geoengineering needs to more broadly account for the ways religion can and should be included.

The most likely situations in which geoengineering technologies will actually be implemented at - scale are those that occur in a high climate sensitivity world (i.e. if the climate's response to greenhouse gas forcings leads to a larger response than science's present best - guess).