Sentences with phrase «other geoengineering schemes»

Other emerging threats include those from iron and urea fertilization; other geoengineering schemes, for example to include pumps to bring colder and deeper waters to the surface, noise which can disrupt marine mammal cycles and may also effect fish behavior disrupting vibration patterns in the water column6.

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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.

In addition, a wide range of forcing schemes designed to span the approximate range of uncertainties associated with anthropogenic climate forcing estimates were generated and implemented in order to assess what differences in effects exist between the «best guess» counter-anthropogenic geoengineering forcing scheme and other plausible schemes.

In other words, any other viable alternative scheme to geoengineering must stop Earth's surface temperatures from rise above the rate of 0.4 C / decade.

However, geoengineering schemes that look at ways for removing CO2 and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere may have some merit.

The ethical and political difficulties deepen when we get to the other kind of geoengineering scheme reviewed in the NRC report, «albedo modification» — formerly known as solar radiation management — schemes to reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface.

Injecting sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere has been one of the various proposed «geoengineering» schemes; others include fertilizing the ocean with iron and stimulating cloud formation.