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The politics and governance of research into solar geoengineering [PDF]
WIREs Climate Change, 2021 AbstractResearch into solar geoengineering, far from being societally neutral, is already highly intertwined with its emerging politics. This review outlines ways in which research conditions or constructs solar geoengineering in diverse ways, including the forms of possible material technologies of solar geoengineering; the criteria and targets for ...
McLaren, D, Corry, O
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The feasibility of using an L1 positioned dust cloud as a method of space-based geoengineering [PDF]
, 2012 In this paper a method of geoengineering is proposed involving clouds of dust placed in the vicinity of the L1 point as an alternative to the use of thin film reflectors.
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Solar Geoengineering, Learning, and Experimentation [PDF]
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2021 Solar geoengineering (SGE) can combat climate change by directly reducing temperatures. Both SGE and the climate itself are surrounded by great uncertainties. Implementing SGE affects learning about these uncertainties. We model endogenous learning over two uncertainties: the sensitivity of temperatures to carbon concentrations (the climate sensitivity)
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Impacts of hemispheric solar geoengineering on tropical cyclone frequency. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2017 Solar geoengineering refers to a range of proposed methods for counteracting global warming by artificially reducing sunlight at Earth’s surface. The most widely known SG proposal is stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) which has impacts analogous to ...
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Impact of solar geoengineering on wildfires in the 21st century in CESM2/WACCM6 [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2023 We quantify future changes in wildfire burned area and carbon emissions in the 21st century under four Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) scenarios and two SSP5-8.5-based solar geoengineering scenarios with a target surface temperature defined by SSP2 ...
W. Tang +7 more
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Gravitationally bound geoengineering dust shade at the inner Lagrange point [PDF]
, 2012 This paper presents a novel method of space-based geoengineering which uses the mass of a captured near Earth asteroid to gravitationally anchor a cloud of unprocessed dust in the vicinity of the L1 position to reduce the level of solar insolation at ...
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Comparing different generations of idealized solar geoengineering simulations in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021 Solar geoengineering has been receiving increased attention in recent years as a potential temporary solution to offset global warming. One method of approximating global-scale solar geoengineering in climate models is via solar reduction experiments ...
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Solar Geoengineering and Democracy [PDF]
Global Environmental Politics, 2018 Some scientists suggest that it might be possible to reflect a portion of incoming sunlight back into space to reduce climate change and its impacts. Others argue that such solar radiation management (SRM) geoengineering is inherently incompatible with democracy. In this article, we reject this incompatibility argument.
Horton, Joshua B. +6 more
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Brief communication: Understanding solar geoengineering's potential to limit sea level rise requires attention from cryosphere experts [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2018 Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering, a form of solar geoengineering, is a proposal to add a reflective layer of aerosol to the stratosphere to reduce net radiative forcing and so to reduce the risks of climate change.
P. J. Irvine +3 more
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Pandemic politics—lessons for solar geoengineering [PDF]
Communications Earth & Environment, 2020 Responses to the COVID-19 emergency have exposed break-points at the interface of science, media, and policy. We summarize five lessons that should be heeded if climate change ever enters a state of emergency perceived to warrant stratospheric aerosol injection.
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