Sentences with phrase «solar geoengineering schemes»

«My preference is for experiments that have broad utility, both for understanding proposed solar geoengineering schemes and improving our understanding of the natural climate system,» says Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California.

Aerosol injections are the most prominent solar geoengineering scheme, and a tempting one: at under $ 10 billion annually the estimated direct costs are low when compared to the trillions of dollars in climate damages they might help to offset.

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It is a plan for regulating geoengineering schemes classed as solar radiation management rather than carbon dioxide removal, even though ocean iron fertilization experiments have generated most controversy (6, 7, 12).

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.

Hence their attraction to geoengineering schemes aimed at regulating solar radiation or changing the chemical composition of the oceans.

Impatient with this kind of warning, some ultra-moderns are even now planning to impose their will on those forces by means of geoengineering schemes aimed at regulating the amount of solar energy reaching the planet.