Sentences with phrase «with geoengineering schemes»

See generally articles citing Bala: Problems with geoengineering schemes to combat climate change

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Of course, the craziest geoengineering scheme to date is the one we're already doing: changing the climate with an excess of greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition, a wide range of forcing schemes designed to span the approximate range of uncertainties associated with anthropogenic climate forcing estimates were generated and implemented in order to assess what differences in effects exist between the «best guess» counter-anthropogenic geoengineering forcing scheme and other plausible schemes.

What I am saying is that it makes no sense at all to hand - wave at the effects of uncontrolled volcanic eruptions as «absolute proof» that geoengineering schemes «can work», while promoting a gradual 50 - year phaseout of GHG emissions (which is too slow to have any hope of preventing catastrophic outcomes) as «logical» (whatever that means) and ignoring the multiple studies that show we can easily phase out emissions in a fraction of that time with the proven technologies that are already at hand.

Andersen: Am I right to think that currently the most plausible geoengineering scheme is to seed the stratosphere with sulfate aerosols to reflect away some portion of sunlight?

Andersen: If we went forward with one of these global geoengineering schemes, would that be the end of wilderness on this planet, and does wilderness exist now?

But «most of these [geoengineering] schemes, though potentially appealing at the surface, are seen to be fraught with potential unintended consequences when you look at them in more detail.»

Some geoengineering schemes are sufficiently cheap and uncomplicated to be deployed by any midsize nation, or even a billionaire with a messiah complex.

The priciest geoengineering scheme, putting a giant sunshade in space like some astronomical beach umbrella, comes with an astronomical price tag: $ 5 trillion - plus.

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.

I taught the story with geoengineering to suggest that large - scale schemes can fail in disastrous ways.

In fact, this conceptual scheme would allow us to dispense with the notion of «geoengineering» as much as CDR or SRM.

Injecting sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere has been one of the various proposed «geoengineering» schemes; others include fertilizing the ocean with iron and stimulating cloud formation.