Sentences with phrase «radiation management technologies»

In February, the National Academies of Science released two major reports on geoengineering, one on carbon dioxide removal technologies (to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and hence reduce the greenhouse effect) and the other on «albedo modification» or solar radiation management technologies (to reflect a fraction of sunlight back to space and thereby cool the planet).

I think that there is very substantial uncertainties about the effects of solar radiation management technologies.

What I'm also concerned about is the way in which this solar radiation management technology as a branch of geoengineering is being aggressively pushed now.

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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.

But ANP engineers and management were mired in debate over reactor technologies, how best to transfer nuclear power to a conventional engine, and the best material to shield the crew from radiation.

«While the Paris Agreement does not address the issue of climate engineering expressly, the target of limiting global average temperature rise to no more than 2 °C (a goal that appears unlikely to be achieved in the absence of significant amounts of carbon removal) raises questions with respect to how the issue of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM) technologies may be addressed under the Paris Agreement.

The Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment's Academic Working Group (AWG) on International Governance of Climate Engineering is an international group of senior academics that have been assembled to formulate perspectives on the international governance of climate engineering research and potential deployment, with a focus on proposed solar radiation management / albedo modification technologies.

The two of us were among a group of international experts asked to propose and critique a number of policy options, such as avoiding methane emissions, improving forestry practices, increased spending for energy technology innovation and researching solar radiation management, a form of geoengineering.

BH: I think, along with many physicists, or most physicists who have looked at this solar radiation management, it is a very dangerous technology.

In his post «Why We Shouldn't Be In a Hurry to Redefine «Climate Engineering,»» Duncan McLaren presents a thoughtful argument against the view that the two main families of potential climate engineering technologies — solar radiation management (SRM) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR)-- should be treated as separate and distinct groups of climate response strategies.

Prof David Keith from Harvard University was the only presenter to address the controversial topic of solar radiation management (SRM), hypothesising that if the technology could be used to offset half of the growth in human - caused radiative forcing, it could substantially reduce the aggregated risks of climate change.

Solar Radiation Management (SRM) or «albedo modification» is a class of technologies that could lower global average temperatures and offset some of the worst impacts of climate change by reflecting a portion of incoming solar radiation back into space before that radiation could be trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.