Sentences with phrase «on geoengineering research»

After all, almost all climate scientists frowned on geoengineering research, even on public discussion of it, for many years.

Informed citizens and civil society organizations around the world can guide next steps on geoengineering research governance.

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A geophysicist at the University of Washington and director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, he is at the forefront of research on geoengineering, a science that focuses on manipulating the environment to, among other ends, combat climate change.

Other recent research on geoengineering using solar radiation management has also found that if the practice did begin but was then stopped, it could lead to rapid climate change with potentially hazardous consequences (ClimateWire, Nov. 27, 2013).

Last year, the United Nation's Convention on Biological Diversity issued a statement forbidding geoengineering research that may impact biodiversity.

Rabe, who conducted the survey with Christopher Borick, director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion, said public opinion research on geoengineering is limited.

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.

Therefore, the American Meteorological Society recommends: 1) Enhanced research on the scientific and technological potential for geoengineering the climate system, including research on the unintended as well as intended environmental responses.

It may be that an understanding of the geobiology of ant - mineral interactions might offer a line of research on how to «geoengineer» accelerated carbon dioxide consumption by Ca - Mg silicates.

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.

(That's one of the reasons I think that the talk about geoengineering is essential, and even more essential than bloviation on that front is practical research, testing and efforts to build management systems.

Here are two fresh statements, on geoengineering and on the choices being made by Congress — at least so far — in regard to financing for basic energy research as a component of federal legislation on climate:

To be clear: I am not a climate sceptic, but I do feel deeply uncomfortable with the suggestion that ever more research on geoengineering — in particular solar radiation management (SRM)-- is required in order to prepare the world for an impending climatic emergency.

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.

For example, in a 2011 op - ed calling for more research on geoengineering, Mark Lynas insisted that «playing God is good for the planet.»

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.

His current areas of research focus are: climate geoengineering; international climate change litigation; adaptation strategies to address climate change, with a focus on the potential role of micro-insurance; and the effectiveness of the European Union's Emissions Trading System.

First, modification of individual hurricanes would fall under the topic of weather modification, rather than climate geoengineering; and second, there is not nearly as much research on [hurricane modification] as on the possible effects of climate geoengineering on slowing the melting of ice sheets.

Bipartisan Policy Center Task Force on Climate Remediation Research, Geoengineering: A national strategic plan for research on the potential effectiveness, feasibility, and consequences of climate remediation technologies (BPC, Washington, DC, 2011); http://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/report/task-force-climate-remediation-rResearch, Geoengineering: A national strategic plan for research on the potential effectiveness, feasibility, and consequences of climate remediation technologies (BPC, Washington, DC, 2011); http://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/report/task-force-climate-remediation-rresearch on the potential effectiveness, feasibility, and consequences of climate remediation technologies (BPC, Washington, DC, 2011); http://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/report/task-force-climate-remediation-researchresearch.

In Issues, a pioneer in geoengineering has laid out the framework for a comprehensive US research plan, saying it should be part of a coherent climate policy agenda that includes vigorous support for climate science, increases efforts to cut emissions, helps the most vulnerable populations to adapt, develops negative emission technologies, and renews a commitment to growing international governance on climate matters.

I implored the editor to go to geoengineeringwatch.org and do more research on geoengineering and the fact it's been going on right over our heads for decades.

On the Geoengineering Watch site, the rationale for the alleged geoengineering is, actually, the real motivation behind research on SRM — that global warming is out of controOn the Geoengineering Watch site, the rationale for the alleged geoengineering is, actually, the real motivation behind research on SRM — that global warming is oGeoengineering Watch site, the rationale for the alleged geoengineering is, actually, the real motivation behind research on SRM — that global warming is ogeoengineering is, actually, the real motivation behind research on SRM — that global warming is out of controon SRM — that global warming is out of control.

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.

Amongst other roles he served on the UK Research Councils» stage-gate panel for the Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE) project review and is a member of the Integrated Assessment of Geoengineering Potential (IAGP) project advisory group.

First, justifications offered for scientific research on geoengineering already involve value judgments of their own, and ethicists are trained to clarify and assess value judgments.

So, all in all, I emerged from my research effort willing to advocate a certain amount of research on geoengineering, while also believing that for now and the foreseeable future there should be a moratorium on large scale testing.

This PCIC Science Brief focuses on recent research in the journal Climatic Change that examines a type of geoengineering that involves using biomass for energy production, together with carbon capture and storage.

That's the debate to have, and anyone I know who does research on solar geoengineering is happy to have it.

Michael has just completed his MSc in Atmospheric Science at UVic, where his research focused on the climate impacts of shortwave radiation management geoengineering.

Around 60 percent of all social media discourse on geoengineering is conspiratorial, according to co-authored research I published last year.

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.

First, it may suggest that more research on solar geoengineering is the only rational choice since many of the relevant equity concerns are empirical matters, amenable to resolution through the provision of more science.

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.

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.

This weekend at Moffett Field, California, NASA's Ames Research Center hosts a closed - door, high - level workshop on the global haze proposal and other «geoengineering» ideas for fending off climate change.

The Americans — who published their findings on Sunday in Nature Climate Change — ran two different climate models, CAM3.5 and HadCM3L — the one devised by the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and the other by the UK Met Office's Hadley Centre and simulated a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, temperature - compensating stratospheric solar radiation management (SRM) geoengineering — and compared precipitation changes.

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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.

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.

Respectively they were the chair and senior policy adviser for the Royal Society's landmark report on geoengineering in 2009, and today they are co-chair and project director for an international initiative to expand discussion of the governance of solar geoengineering research to developing countries (www.srmgi.org).

Surprisingly (to us at least), geoengineering research was identified as the number one priority in the list of most efficient climate policy options while policies to put a price on carbon appeared dead last.

It's good to see so many people willing to speak out on line, as they continue researching the chemtrail / geoengineering issue and educating others who care about what's happening.

The report on albedo modification draws from Long and Scott's (2013) work on vested interests in geoengineering research, identifying «the four Fs», or factors that should be considered in research design and execution.

Rachel Smolker and Almuth Ernsting of Biofuelwatch agreed, repeating a claim commonly made by opponents of research on geoengineering: «the negative effects of different types of geoengineering would likely be felt most dramatically in the global South.»

How the ledger is likely to balance out globally, and particularly for the global South, is unknown, yet that is precisely the reason why more research on solar geoengineering is so urgently needed.

In other words, in the face of poor progress on mitigation, let's not be caught with our pants down again, and start talking about (and researching and testing) geoengineering while there is still time.

The answer is not entirely clear, but part of it is undoubtedly related to the nature of the computer modeling work that has constituted most scientific research on solar geoengineering to date.

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.

The Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative aims» to encourage the development of governance for research on climate geo - engineering that is balanced between enabling and regulatory aspects.»

Most students supported further research on geoengineering and a little over half supported piloting a small - scale test in some part of the world.