Sentences with phrase «which geoengineering research»

Although we can not predict specific impacts of geoengineering with much confidence, we can fruitfully consider the conditions under which geoengineering research would be justified (or not), and ethical theory provides a wealth of resources to sift through the value judgments that arguments for (or against) research inevitably involve.

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Nicholson says that even if research agencies under Trump avoid research into geoengineering techniques such as albedo modification, the U.S. intelligence community might remain interested, especially in whether other countries are pursuing their own planetary cooling technologies, which could affect many nations.

Richard Benedick, president of the US National Council for Science and the Environment and a former US government negotiator, circulated a document in which he argued that the principles governing geoengineering research should be developed by a group of 14 nations, including the US, several European nations, India and China.

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.

Research to date has not determined that there are large - scale geoengineering approaches for which the benefits would substantially outweigh the detriments.

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.

We need more than a coordinated research program which considers geoengineering — we need a coordinated, interdisciplinary research program on energy futures that goes beyond what is «possible» at a certain oil price.

Prior to the pivotal 2006 intervention by Paul Crutzen (22), which «opened the floodgates» (15), there prevailed a near - unanimous taboo against geoengineering research precisely because of anxieties about the political uses to which it could be put.

Henry Fountain writes «The panel said the research could include small - scale outdoor experiments, which many scientists say are necessary to better understand whether and how geoengineering would work.»

All of which points to perhaps the greatest risk of research into geoengineering — it will erode the incentive to curb emissions.

Anchored in notions of place and identity, the HSRC marks a novel entry point into social research on geoengineering, which enables a more situated engagement with ocean fertilization, in keeping with geographical traditions.

Earlier this month, MacMartin, Keith and Prof Katharine Ricke, a climate scientist from the University of California, San Diego, published a research paper exploring how solar geoengineering — via releasing aerosols into the stratosphere — could be used as part of an «overall strategy» for limiting global warming to 1.5 C, which is the aspirational target of the Paris Agreement.

Can there be a responsible way to research geoengineering which reduces the dangers?

SPICE is a United Kingdom government funded geoengineering research project that collaborates with the university of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Bristol to further examine the idea of Solar Radiation Management (SRM)-- which is the idea that injecting stratospheric aerosols into the atmosphere could combat global warming.

This is an area in which the draft Code of Conduct for Responsible Geoengineering Research — which was originally drafted in 2012 — might be showing its age.

Perhaps the most notable of these at the international level is the Convention on Biological Diversity's Decision XIII / 14 para 6 which notes «that more transdisciplinary research and sharing of knowledge among appropriate institutions is needed in order to better understand the impacts of climate - related geoengineering on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, socio - economic, cultural and ethical issues and regulatory options.»

Reporting in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers looked at how the impacts caused by different strengths of geoengineering differed from region to region, using a comprehensive climate model developed by the UK Met Office, which replicates all the important aspects of the climate system, including the atmospheric, ocean and land processes, and their interactions.