Sentences with phrase «of global geoengineering»

Andersen: If we went forward with one of these global geoengineering schemes, would that be the end of wilderness on this planet, and does wilderness exist now?

Though there are likely a number of factors contributing to the toxic cabin fumes, is there any reasonable doubt about the contamination posed by the constant atmospheric spraying which is the major component of global geoengineering?

When will the cowardly denial of global geoengineering by «elected officials» (which is parroted by the entire climate science community) come to an end?

If we are to be effective in the battle to expose and halt climate engineering, the effects of global geoengineering must be recognized, understood, and taken into consideration in regard to our conclusions.

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Cool It, a documentary based on his 2007 book of the same name, continues Lomborg's cry to rethink the world's responses to global warming: Abandon toothless agreements about carbon cuts and instead invest in renewable energy, along with geoengineering as a fail - safe.

And while the meeting was frank about the major problems facing the planet while being relatively upbeat about solving at least some of them, one side session also showed the darker side of global deliberations with a look at some of the options being offered by intentionally manipulating the Earth's climate through geoengineering from dumping iron filings into the ocean to seeding clouds and pumping «designer particles» into the stratosphere.

Geoengineering — the intentional manipulation of the climate to counter the effect of global warming by injecting aerosols artificially into the atmosphere — has been mooted as a potential way to deal with climate change.

Climate engineering, an application of geoengineering, is the deliberate and large - scale intervention in Earth's climatic system with the aim of reducing global warmingClimate engineering has two categories of technologies - carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management.

As part of a national contest, teams of high school students argue adaptation is the only viable response to global warming whereas another team calls for geoengineering

Injection of water vapor makes the ozone layer sensitive to global warming and geoengineering

PEOPLE tend to have strong opinions about geoengineering — large - scale manipulation of the environment to counteract global warming.

Some scientists have proposed seeding the ocean with iron to grow algae, which would capture carbon dioxide and thus help curb global warming — part of a suite of ideas known as geoengineering.

No mainstream scientists are advocating using geoengineering techniques right now, but more and more researchers feel that a worsening picture of global climate change warrants studying such interventions in case of a climate emergency in the future.

The IPCC will also say that global warming is irreversible without massive geoengineering of the atmosphere's chemistry.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's assessment was expected to say that «global warming is irreversible without massive geoengineering of...

A magnitude - 9 earthquake in Japan, a momentous climate change summit, reports on future global «hyperwarming», and rumblings about some of the first geoengineering field trials all made 2011 a remarkable year for the environmental sciences.

Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.

A U.K. project that is examining the feasibility of geoengineering the Earth's climate to reduce global warming will no longer involve an outdoor experiment that was scheduled to take place later this year.

«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.

And can geoengineering halt the rise of global sea levels?

But the failure of December's summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the relentless rise in global CO2 emissions have persuaded many to reluctantly consider geoengineering solutions (see diagram, right).

These are just a few of the proposals from scientists to manipulate, or geoengineer, the planet to stave off global warming.

He also studies geoengineering, or the intentional manipulation of the atmosphere to counteract global warming.

«Any geoengineering method we know of can only offset part of the global warming that we have,» Lohmann said.

To research his latest book, How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate, he spent several years with some of the world's top climate modelers, as well as Cold War physicists, philosophers, politicians, and crackpot entrepreneurs, all of whom are involved with the development of new technologies that might someday be used to manipulate the earth's climate to reduce the risks associated with global warming.

Geoengineering is in the wind more and more these days, particularly the use of sun - blocking aerosols as a cheap, temporary counterweight to greenhouse - gas - driven global warming.

The sociopolitical ramifications of the geoengineering symptom fixes have to include the global conflict that would arise and whether our species can resolve conflicts and continue to avoid a nuclear exchange.

Wagner, the co-author of a great book on global warming risk and economics, «Climate Shock,» moved from the Environmental Defense Fund to Harvard recently to focus full - time on geoengineering policy.

Geoengineering proposals fall into at least three broad categories: 1) managing atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g., ocean fertilization and atmospheric carbon capture and sequestration), 2) cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight (e.g., putting reflective particles into the atmosphere, putting mirrors in space to reflect the sun's energy, increasing surface reflectivity and altering the amount or characteristics of clouds), and 3) moderating specific impacts of global warming (e.g., efforts to limit sea level rise by increasing land storage of water, protecting ice sheets or artificially enhancing mountain glaciers).

With this prediction, and the trend toward the slowing down of the jet stream, is it time to consider / advocate geoengineering as a response to global warming?

Updates below Experts convened by the National Academy of Sciences have weighed in with valuable reports on the two main «geoengineering» strategies for countering global warming driving by the buildup of greenhouse gases:

It's worth spending some more time on the National Academy of Sciences reports on geoengineering prospects and concerns — the concerns mainly being about adding sun - blocking particles to the atmosphere to counteract global warming driven by the buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

I was pleased to read in your blog that at least some climate scientists are now worried enough about rapid global warming that they encourage investigation of «geoengineering» ways to cool the earth.

Global geoengineering programs are the absolute epitome of this destruction.

The downsides are that this type of geoengineering could have lots of unpredictable side effects, like screwing up global rainfall patterns.

The destruction of the ozone layer (most directly linked to the ongoing geoengineering assault) is also a massive contributing factor in regard to coral bleaching and the global die - off in general.

The gravity of the overall global temperature rise can not be overstated, climate engineering / solar radiation management is not a form of «mediation» as those in power would have us believe, geoengineering is a weapon of mass deception and war, nothing less.

To simply expose the geoengineering assault against the planet and all life would shatter the foundations of the global power structure.

Yet the unique and highly threatening character of global warming renders the standard approach to the ethics of climate change and geoengineering untenable.

Highly toxic and environmentally devastating global geoengineering programs are a primary tool and weapon of the more powerful nations.

Global war has to come before Catastrophic Climate Change, as it will distract people from prosecuting those who have brought us to the edge of extinction with their geoengineering, particularly atmospheric spraying.

Climate scientist Alan Robock, studies nuclear winter, volcanic eruptions and climate, geoengineering, and global warming.http: / / envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock ClimateState staff interviewed Alan to give us a snapshot of the current state on these topics.

Current proposals for geoengineering, measures to directly influence parts of system Earth, like the global climate system, seem overestimated — with respect to their proclaimed beneficial outcomes.

«One issue the paper doesn't cover is the consequences of a group of countries or a single country deciding to implement solar geoengineering without global consent and participation, which would increase the risk of early termination.

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.

«Global geoengineering is completely disrupting the hydrological cycle, destroying the ozone layer (which is exposing all life on Earth to extreme UV radiation), and contaminating the entire surface of the planet with highly toxic bioavailable heavy metals and chemicals.

The private event was the first global powwow designed to explore the political aspects of geoengineering, or the deliberate manipulation of the climate.

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I can only agree if the «we» is assured to be a larger, global, inclusive «we» — not some elite «geoclique» itching to uncork the geoengineering genie on behalf of an unwitting humanity.

The completely engineered weather «whack - a-mole» is winding up with «winter storm Ajax» In recent years, the naming of «winter storms» adds to the geoengineered winter weather theater that is the last ditch effort of the power structure to mask the severity of the rapidly accelerating global meltdown.