Sentences with phrase «geoengineering research»

A survey of geoengineering research in a piece by Michael Specter in The New Yorker last year introduced the chemotherapy analogy to me.
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.»
Parker's paper furthers the discussion of governance and good practices in geoengineering research in the absence of both national legislation and international agreement, a topic raised last year in Science by Keith and Edward Parson of UCLA.
It's about getting the balance right between the different functions of geoengineering research governance
Specifically, the format of the workshop examined the potential role of a draft Code of Conduct for Responsible Geoengineering Research by interpreting and applying its provisions to three separate hypothetical (though plausible) geoengineering field experiments.
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.
Currently, none expressly supports geoengineering research, though federal climate science officials have been quietly reviewing the idea for the entirety of the Obama administration.
No one can predict how SRM research will develop or whether these strategies for managing the short - term implications of climate change will be helpful or harmful, but early cooperation and transnational, interdisciplinary dialogue on geoengineering research governance should help the global community make informed decisions.
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.
A government - funded geoengineering research project that secured a 17 - million - yuan grant has completed its first year.
In a statement issued today, project leader Matthew Watson of the University of Bristol said one reason the test was cancelled was a lack of international agreement on how to proceed with geoengineering research, even though it would have been «hard to imagine a more environmentally benign experiment.»
Indeed, some argued that rather than see the poor as being victimized by geoengineering efforts, it is in fact the most vulnerable who have the most to gain from geoengineering research and potential deployment.
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.
Risk prevention and minimization The literature identifies the prevention and minimization of the risk of harm caused by geoengineering research as a key function of governance.
Second, even if geoengineering research is in general justified, certain kinds of research themselves raise ethical questions.
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.
«Current Status of Climate Geoengineering Research in the United States.»
How is it that scientific consensus recommends geoengineering research?
A group of scientists and policy specialists say it's time to bring geoengineering research into the limelight.
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.
International relations professor Simon Nicholson, who co-runs the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment at American University in Washington, D.C., says the new call for federal geoengineering research, in the last days of the Obama administration, is «ironic and extraordinarily sad.»
Yet the new endorsement of geoengineering research comes amid deep uncertainty about the direction that climate research will take under the new administration of President - elect Donald Trump.
Last year, the United Nation's Convention on Biological Diversity issued a statement forbidding geoengineering research that may impact biodiversity.
Acemoglu also notes that the R&D in their model is not directed toward geoengineering research, that is, attempts to capture or limit existing carbon in the atmosphere; rather, the study is focused on the production of clean energy in the first place.
In 2009, climate scientists met to try and figure out a system of voluntary standards to guide geoengineering research, much as molecular biologists met in 1975 to assess the potential risks of biotechnology.
The idea that we might solve our climate woes through planet hacking had its political coming - out earlier this month, when White House science adviser John Holdren said geoengineering research has «got to be looked at» by scientists.
Another question concerns how geoengineering research ought to be funded.
In addition to field tests, other aspects of geoengineering research raise various normative questions, such as what parties should conduct such research.
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.
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.
It also includes the details of two previous attempts to bring solar geoengineering research out into the open.
All carbon taxation activists need to deter geoengineering research is to persuade the Tarsandinista elite that they can instead achieve profitable immortality the old fashioned way!
Our work's goal is to broaden the conversation around this important emerging discussion, and to give space to all perspectives - those of voices in favor of full steam ahead geoengineering research and potential deployment, those of voices entirely opposed, and the many important - to - understand nuanced positions in between.
Three main justifications are used to defend geoengineering research and possible deployment — it will allow us to buy time, it will allow us to respond to a climate emergency, and it may be the best option economically.
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.
Some people were uncomfortable with the content of the statement itself, concerned, on the one hand, that it might prevent important geoengineering research or, on the other hand, that it might provide carte blanche for outdoors experimentation.
For the moment, and for the most part, governments and energy companies are keeping geoengineering research at arm's length, precisely because they fear being accused of evading their responsibilities.
Governance can define safe and appropriate bounds for research and field experimentation and thereby facilitate geoengineering research and innovation and increase scientific credibility and public confidence in this field.
Does the draft Code of Conduct for Responsible Geoengineering Research apply to this experimental scenario?
Geoengineering research gives rise to two broad categories of concerns.
The original goes on with both supporters of specific geoengineering research and those scientists opposed to research bans on more theoretical grounds, and opponents of geoengineering weighing in.
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