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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. 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

  4. "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/