Sentences with phrase «supports geoengineering research»

Currently, none expressly supports geoengineering research, though federal climate science officials have been quietly reviewing the idea for the entirety of the Obama administration.

But the day can not be far off when it becomes respectable to support geoengineering research.

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Mercer said the broad support of SRM could reveal a limitation of the survey, which did not ask participants to describe which aspects of geoengineering research they supported.

The biggest funder of geoengineering research has been a nonprofit fund supported by billionaire Bill Gates, which has disbursed some $ 8.5 million for research and meetings since 2007.

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.

While we support continued research into geoengineering (as well as into fusion) we believe the prospects for such research to result in solutions to accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to be vastly overstated by the Copenhagen Consensus.

At the outset, Broecker develops the theme that drives most of the support for geoengineering research in contemporary society, despair over feckless climate policymaking, or as Broecker characterizes it «nibbles by developed countries... swamped by increased energy demand in traditionally poor countries.»

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