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  1. 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.

    fediscience.org/@atthenius/109

    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.

    web.archive.org/web/2024100902

    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”

  2. 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

    new.nsf.gov/events/exploring-e

    Here is what I said previously about doing the fake-volcano method:

    fediscience.org/@atthenius/109

  3. @earthlyeducation

    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?

    #SRM

  4. The same old Making Sunsets dudes shooting SO2 balloons off in the news.

    cbsnews.com/video/california-s

    I remain concerned about #SRM #SolarRadiationManagement #Geoengineering as a way to counteract #ClimateChange

    fediscience.org/@atthenius/109

    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

  5. 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.

    boell.de/en/2024/02/22/solar-g
    #geoengineering #SolarRadiationManagement #UNEA6 #ClimateCrisis

  6. @Doug_Bostrom

    Thank you, I would have missed that otherwise. The time-saving argument is - it seems to me - gaining more and more momentum.

    #srm #solarradiationmanagement #geoengineering

  7. 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
    theregister.com/2023/12/30/sol

  8. "#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. "

    reuters.com/sustainability/cop

  9. 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."

    theguardian.com/environment/20

  10. 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
    insideclimatenews.org/news/210

  11. "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

    wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

  12. @Snoro J'ai commencé une collection de références sur le #solarradiationmanagement pinboard.in/u:lutzray/t:solar. , liées au chercheur Ye Tao qui m'apparaît comme un type d'une intelligence et d'une érudition pan-disciplinaire hors du commun (bio + chimie + physique). Le type est un CRAC. En octobre il a conversé avec Roger Hallam de XR et Bud Blumenthal (dont je ne retrouve qu'un essai sur medium). Tao me fait penser à Elon Musk, mais en plus altruiste et modeste (il répond aux commentaires sur YT!)