#SolarRadiationManagement #SolarGeoengineering
Original open access paper
Taylor, G.M. et al. A realistic climate strategy. EarthArXiv 2025.
https://doi.org/10.31223/X5QQ86
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #climatecatastrophe #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather
#FYI #HerbSimmens #ClimateEmergencyForum #PaulBeckwith #PeterCarter #PeterWadhams #GraemeTaylor #SRM #SolarRadiationManagement #SolarGeoengineering
"Dr. Taylor [...] emphasizing that without immediate cooling interventions [...] there is no realistic path to stabilizing the climate...."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28r8R93EGo8
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #climatecatastrophe #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather
#geoengineering #srm #SolarRadiationManagement #sai #StratosphericAerosolInjection #nsf
Is this the society part or the geoengineering part of the nsf panel getting deferred 'until further notice’?
One of my earliest, popular posts here on mastodon was about #geoengineering through #srm #SolarRadiationManagement through #sai #StratosphericAerosolInjection , or venture capitalist dudes from “Making Sunsets” tried to create fake Volcanoes in the stratosphere to cancel out some greenhouse gas fueled global warming.
https://fediscience.org/@atthenius/109577754208679865
Last fall #nsf convened a panel of experts including scientists like me plus social scientists and policy makers— virtually so very low-cost -- to figure out the impact of such a program (as well as other geoengineering ideas for carbon capture and marine cloud brightening etc.) on the world.
This email was in my inbox this morning, 'deferring' it indefinitely.
I hope someone IS INDEED convening these kinds of panels.
“Well this is modestly embarrassing.
I invited you to join a report-out from the NSF workshop you participated in last year and you kindly accepted.
You may be aware that there has been quite a lot of change at the NSF and other funding agencies following the recent alteration in administration. I have now been advised that the NSF will have to defer the report-out until further notice.
I know that the organising team are anxious to reconnect with the community and bring you up to speed. I can only offer my apologies for having wasted your time - like you I have very limited understanding of the current situation - but I will let you know as soon as things change.
With warm good wishes”
It's called #Bluesky because techbros are building the replacement for when our actual blue sky will turn hazy orange due to #SolarRadiationManagement
#Dystopia #SRM #Geoengineering #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary
> The AGU emphasizes two things. One is that, even if we gain a good understanding of the risks and benefits of a geoengineering technique, it should always be a secondary priority compared to limiting our carbon emissions.
#ClimateChange #SolarRadiationManagement #carbonDioxideRemoval
Today I am participating in a NSF Workshop on #Climate Interventions using #SRM #SolarRadiationManagement
They are pairing up climate scientists like me with #SBE #SocialBehavioralEconomic researchers
To try to figure out the ethics, governance, etc. of #geoengineering our way out of #ClimateChange
https://new.nsf.gov/events/exploring-ethics-societal-interactions-climate
Here is what I said previously about doing the fake-volcano method:
Wait - doesn't this mean #SolarRadiationManagement won't solve GHG emission problems? That we'll actually have to stop burning fossil fuels? That there isn't a magical technosolution?
The same old Making Sunsets dudes shooting SO2 balloons off in the news.
I remain concerned about #SRM #SolarRadiationManagement #Geoengineering as a way to counteract #ClimateChange
https://fediscience.org/@atthenius/109577754208679865
Fortunately, NSF is convening several panels next month on the “Ethics and Societal Interactions of Climate Intervention”. I’ll be participating w other experts.
Hopefully the science community will be bringing (finding a path to) clarity and reasonableness soon
@louisrcouture @joehill the prohibitive energy cost of direct carbon capture is mentioned here by Ye Tao: https://youtu.be/nqPG43zua_Q?t=266
Solar geoengineering/solar radiation Management. Analysis: In the upcoming UNEA6 meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, to be held between February 26 and March 1st, Switzerland has proposed a resolution to advance global talks on controversial solar radiation manipulation techniques. This blog offers an overview of the solar geoengineering narrative battle that unfolded in the last major climate COP in Dubai as a background to better understand the issues at stake at UNEA6.
Australia (and other nations) expanding #FossilFuels means more pressure to do live experiments on a planetary scale.
https://www.boell.de/en/2024/02/22/solar-geoengineering-cop-28
#geoengineering #SolarRadiationManagement #UNEA6 #ClimateCrisis
Thank you, I would have missed that otherwise. The time-saving argument is - it seems to me - gaining more and more momentum.
This article on #SRM (solar radiation management) is a model of circumspection in the best and most formal sense.
Deep enough for most of us while also highly readable. Salute to author.
SRM is undesirable in the same general way as is using "fix a flat" on a car tire with a puncture; there are several downsides, starting with "temporary" and "messy." Equally, sometimes unavoidable.
#SolarRadiationManagement
#MarineCloudBrightening
#StratosphericAerosolInjection
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/30/solar_radiation_management/
📺 "Can Geoengineering UNDO Climate Change? Featuring @ClimateAdam" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcqc-he0-M&t=617s #SolarRadiationManagement #Geoengineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcqc-he0-M&t=617s
"#AirPollution, a global scourge that kills millions of people a year, is shielding us from the full force of the sun. Getting rid of it will accelerate #ClimateChange.
One proposal called "#SolarRadiationManagement" envisions deliberately injecting sulphur #aerosols into the atmosphere to cool temperatures. But many scientists worry that the approach could unleash unintended consequences.
A more mainstream plan is to curb #methane emissions. "
“Experts call for global moratorium on efforts to geoengineer climate— Techniques such as solar radiation management may have unintended consequences, scientists say”
#ClimateChange #SolarRadiationManagement
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/14/experts-call-for-global-moratorium-on-efforts-to-geoengineer-climate
Climate Overshoot Commission:
"Governments should also allow academics to investigate the possibilities of #GeoEngineering, chiefly in the form of #SolarRadiationManagement.
But governments should not embark on any such activities, the panel warned, because of the dangers involved in tinkering with the global #climate in ways that are not yet well understood."
The calls for #GeoEngineering are getting louder, but how effective is it? How safe? And who decides when and what to deploy?
"Some scientists worry that studying how to shade the Earth from some of the sun’s heat is a slippery slope toward deployment of ‘solar radiation management’ without fully understanding the risks."
#SRM #SolarRadiationManagement #MoralHazard
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21072023/new-federal-report-on-research-into-sun-dimming-technologies-delivers-more-questions-than-answers/
"It is argued that Soviet scientific work related to climate modification at a global scale was characterized by a considered and wide-ranging discussion that embodied a clear sense of the inherent dangers associated with manipulating complex natural systems."
Interesting retrospective, leading to our present discussions of geoengineering and particularly SRM.
#SolarRadiationManagement
#Geoengineering
#SovietScience
#SovietClimateResearch
https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.829?af=R
