Sentences with phrase «geoengineering needs»

That is roughly the level of sulfate geoengineering needed to counteract the warming that would result if the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere climbed to 560 parts per million, up from roughly 390 ppm today.

Not exact matches

But judging by the reaction to the pilot experiment, geoengineers will need to employ a delicate public relations strategy as they pursue their research.

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.

Two researchers argue that governments need to coordinate a legal framework to allow for geoengineering experiments

I need to explain further my call for geoengineering in the Arctic by 2013 (newscientist.com/article/dn21275), and why it is not...

Many scientists believe that small or medium scale field trials may be needed to understand the risks of large - scale geoengineering projects.

We will obviously need to have a far better understanding of the changes before we even begin to entertain the notion of geoengineering, Miller says.

This may be successful in the short term, but stronger and stronger geoengineering will be needed if emissions continue to grow.

«There is massive uncertainty in this figure, and until much more research is done no serious scientist should express any confidence in such estimates,» of iron fertilization's geoengineering potential, cautions oceanographer Richard Lampitt of the National Oceanography Center in England, who also argues that more research into such potential geoengineering techniques is needed due to the failure of global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Watson says we need massive geoengineering to curb climate change.

Prominent scientists say researchers and policy makers need to focus more on adapting to warming and on controversial geoengineering techniques to limit it

The effects of geoengineering could be worse than climate change, so we need to do our homework rather than assume it can stave off disaster.

«I hope we'll never need geoengineering schemes, but if a climate catastrophe occurs, I sure hope we will have thought through our options carefully.»

I've interviewed scientists who believe human geoengineering is needed to save the Arctic ice, say by spraying sulphur aerosols.

The second is less popular: call it geoengineering, but we need to find a way to put carbon back in the ground.

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.

The possibility of quick and seemingly inexpensive geoengineering fixes could distract the public and policy makers from critically needed efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build society's capacity to deal with unavoidable climate impacts.

«While more work needs to be done, we have a strong model that indicates that solar geoengineering might be used in a far more nuanced manner than the uniform one - size - fits - all implementation that is often assumed.

Geoengineering really needs

Besides, we need to start doing geoengineering experiments now.

The report, by a panel of experts convened by the society, says more research is needed on geoengineering techniques, and that it should involve international collaborations and discussions with the public.

The best approach — the «safest and most predictable,» the report says — would be to avoid the need for geoengineering in the first place by drastically reducing emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

That's the only kind of albedo - modification geoengineering I could countenance, and by the time that is needed, presumably we'll have the wisdom to deploy it safely and the technology to make it robust.

From the («lay - scientist», real scientist wanna - be) guy who you Honored by re-enforcing my — much decried by the other bloggers — observation that, by using SO2 to «Geoengineer» our way out of having to use Good Sense to solve our Most Pressing of Planetary Issues, would only lead to more Acid Rain, Ocean Acidification, and — ultimately, or so I conjectured — the loss of our Primary source of the Oxygen that we all need to Breathe — Phytoplankton; I must say that I TRULY APPRECIATE what you do!

We need geoengineering of people's minds.

One also has to wonder whether the international treaties and organizations needed to agree on and execute a geoengineering scheme are significantly easier to realize than the agreements needed to decarbonize the energy future, which would offer safer and more durable climate protection.

Geoengineering has been attacked by some environmentalists as creating a possible end run around the need for curbing emissions of greenhouse gases at the source, and also for coming with its own basket of potential environmental consequences.

a) Someone who is seriously concerned about climate might well argue that that we need to research geoengineering techniques, especially when we can do it cheap, just in case.

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.

Geoengineering is the single greatest factor which is stealing precipitation from where it is needed most.

The international community has been making significant progress in cutting carbon pollution to prevent the need for an emergency geoengineering effort, particularly through the Paris climate accords.

We need more than a coordinated research program which considers geoengineering — we need a coordinated, interdisciplinary research program on energy futures that goes beyond what is «possible» at a certain oil price.

We also need more open, balanced discussion about global warming itself, since that is the justification for even considering geoengineering.

World's most vulnerable people need protection from huge and unintended impacts of radical geoengineering projects

The toxic atmospheric spraying and geoengineering advocates refuse to admit that it is already intensively conducted and is failing drastically, and try to argue that it is needed to «buy us time».

Some scientists are pre-emptively recognizing this need for knowledge, and beginning to run simulations of geoengineering.

Geoengineering schemes need ranking system to avoid wasting money, destroying the planet (10/26/2008) Schemes to alter Earth's climate on a planetary scale should be ranked according to their efficacy, cost, risks and their rate of mitigation, argues a new editorial published in Nature Geoscience.

Finally, and critically, there remain other occasions when we need to be aware of and seeking to manage common ethical and physical issues that arise from geoengineering interventions in earth - systems as a whole.

Relentlessly rising greenhouse - gas emissions, and the fear that the earth might enter a climate emergency from which there would be no return, have prompted many climate scientists to conclude that we urgently need a Plan B: geoengineering.

and what about the 400 + nuclear reactors worldwide that need workers and constant maintainance to keep them running so they do nt go in to full blown meltdown and make the planet a radioactive wasteland eh + the unstoppable feedback loop of methane release and the earths athmosphere becoming more like venus... the elitists do nt seem so worried that geoengineering is destroying their planet too... maybe because they've got the deep underground military bases or hardened bunkers that can sustain them for many years or might the real manipulators not be from the earth itself??

When specific individuals have made a career out of helping to cover up the criminal geoengineering programs by their «professional» public denial, these individuals need to be exposed.

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.

You can not promote a clean energy system and then make it ineffective with a dirty system, because people will have to continue the use of carbon fuels which will create more of a need for Geoengineering.

A public outcry against geoengineering operations is desperately needed to bring the operations to a halt.

The Paris Agreement introduced the concept of «carbon neutrality» which allows business as usual, shifts the responsibility, and doesn't stop fossil fuel extraction like we need (while at the same time opening the door for dangerous geoengineering which is not safe or proven).

Focus on transformational action: «Ensure that renewable and efficient solutions are emphasized rather than false solutions that fail to produce the results and protection we need, such as carbon markets in land and soil, dangerous geoengineering interventions, and more.»

As these SRM techniques are also largely unproven, require a mostly peaceful world to be deployed in, require the bending of judiciary systems, may backfire climatologically and do «nothing» [considering ocean temperature feedbacks they actually do do something] to abate ocean acidification — the simple notion that it is cheap [again, policy thinking] makes geoengineering so dangerous, possibly undermining cooperation behind the world's mitigation attempts, under the UNFCCC, the hard route that we need to go anyway * [as CDR geoengineering lacks the potential to get carbon concentrations back to safe levels, also for marine life — and isn't much cheaper / is costlier anyway].

Burns» research primarily focuses on climate geoengineering governance — or, the deliberate and large - scale intervention of our climate system with the goal of counteracting climate change, and the policies needed to achieve that goal.

We need to find out if geoengineering works, and soon, say a group of atmospheric scientists.

We need the geoengineering equivalent of a Baruch Plan to govern these technologies and buy ourselves the time to become wise.