Sentences with phrase «into geoengineering research»

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.

Not exact matches

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 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.

«We don't want to do geoengineering, but we're in increasingly dire straits,» says climate expert Michael MacCracken of the Climate Institute in Washington D.C., who has advocated publicly for research into geoengineering.

«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.

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.

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

Nor can the appeal to objectivity sweep away the essential practical and ethical concern that scientists are not entitled to conduct research into geoengineering in the absence of means to control its deployment (24).

Moreover, there is a well - founded concern that any program of research into geoengineering, irrespective of its environmental impacts, may itself make deployment more likely (16).

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.

Let me be clear that I am not advocating that there should be no research into geoengineering.

All of which points to perhaps the greatest risk of research into geoengineering — it will erode the incentive to curb emissions.

We argue that what experts say and do to define and address issues of equity matters, because such boundary - drawing affects who is authorized to speak with regard to the advisability and contours of solar geoengineering research, and because the emerging visions of a smaller configuration of actors may have the potential to coalesce into widely - shared and collectively - held imaginaries.

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.

One way researchers could start to tackle the global governance issue is by dividing it into smaller parts, says Dr Joshua Horton, research director of geoengineering at Keith's research team at Harvard University.

Anchored in notions of place and identity, the HSRC marks a novel entry point into social research on geoengineering, which enables a more situated engagement with ocean fertilization, in keeping with geographical traditions.

It also includes the details of two previous attempts to bring solar geoengineering research out into the open.

At present, research into solar geoengineering is largely restricted to the US, the UK and other parts of Europe — although China recently launched the world's largest geoengineering research programme.

While we support continued research into geoengineering (as well as into fusion) we believe the prospects for such research to result in solutions to accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to be vastly overstated by the Copenhagen Consensus.

First, to suggest that geoengineering research has a high potential payoff is no different than saying that research into fusion energy has a potential high payoff, or for that matter, so too would research into how to turn atmospheric carbon into diamonds.

If Lomborg's cost - benefit analyses got one thing right, it was that research into both the good and the bad aspects of solar geoengineering is desirable.

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.

It's too late to stuff the genie back in the bottle, and (as I have argued previously) research into geoengineering is clearly justified.

Research into geoengineering is clearly justified.

According to new research, solar geoengineering efforts that would place small particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect some sunlight back into space could result in whiter, brighter skies.

Here is a paper published in the Journal PLOS Biology by Dr. Watson that goes into more detail about the governance of geoengineering research.

In a two - volume report, the council is recommending that the federal government fund a research program into geoengineering as a response to a warming globe.

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.

He also noted significant decline in forest health and began testing and researching into geoengineering about a decade ago.

However, within the geoengineering Google discussion group, where even CIW's renowned climate scientist Ken Caldeira joins in to make sense of the news, the statement is considered broad, raising concerns over possible limitations into theoretical research studies.

This year it includes a contest where participants can propose a solution to the question: «How can research into geoengineering be governed to limit its environmental and political risks?»

Harvard scientists will soon shoot frozen water into Earth's stratosphere in geoengineering research, while another scientist revives the ice age Mammoth Steppe ecosystem in the Arctic - last ditch efforts

Harvard scientists will soon shoot frozen water into Earth's stratosphere in geoengineering research, while another

At this point in time, I would be against active deployment of geoengineering schemes, but in favor of more research into that area.

It seems to me that the argument for doing research into geoengineering approaches to mitigate warming is a compelling one, for the following reasons: