Sentences with phrase «risk global geoengineering»
Do we have any low - risk global geoengineering options ready to deploy now?
https://www.newscientist.com/ Not exact matches
«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is therefore likely a safer option than geoengineering to avert risks to global food security.»
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.
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.
Offsetting Global Warming: Targeting Solar Geoengineering to Minimize Risk and Inequality http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121021133922.htm Want to try to cool the arctic?
«Offsetting Global Warming: Targeting Solar Geoengineering to Minimize Risk and Inequality ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2012)» http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121021133922.htm
«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.
These climate scientists warned President Johnson in 1965 not just of the dangers associated with human - caused global warming, but also that we might eventually have to consider geoengineering the climate to offset that warming and the risks that we're causing by inadvertently running a dangerous experiment with the Earth's climate.
Geoengineering Earth's climate could stop global warming but carries big risks Geoengineering could stop global warming but carries big risks Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com June 4, 2007 Using radical techniques...
«Since geoengineering would not affect the climate the same way [as mitigation], a lower global mean temperature anomaly achieved using geoengineering does not necessarily lead to lower aggregate climate risks.
«These results indicate that varying geoengineering efforts by region and over different periods of time could potentially improve the effectiveness of solar geoengineering and reduce climate impacts in at - risk areas,» says co-author Ken Caldeira, Senior Scientist in the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science.
Also on his wish list: global superconducting power grids for distributing renewable energy, and fusion - powered breeder nuclear reactors (see «Geoengineering Could Be Essential to Reducing the Risk of Climate Change,» «Startup to Beam Power from Space,» and «ABB Advance Makes Renewable - Energy Supergrids Practical»).