Benefits, Risks and Costs of Geoengineering
Published October 2009
Reference Articles:
A Coordinated Strategy Could Focus Federal Geoengineering Research and Inform Governance Efforts
September 2010 | United States Government Accountability Office GAO | Federal agencies identified 52 research activities, totaling about $100.9 million, relevant to geoengineering during fiscal years 2009 and 2010. Link To Full Report_A Coordinated Strategy Could Focus Federal Geoengineering … More …
CATS: Measuring Clouds and Aerosols from the International Space Station
2014 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA From space, streaks of white clouds can be seen swirling across Earth’s surface. In addition to clouds, other tiny solid and liquid particles, invisible to our eyes, called aerosols are also … More …
Harvard Project Conducts Research Workshop on Governance of Solar Geoengineering
26 October 2018 | Harvard Kennedy School for Science and International Affairs | By Robert C. Stowe The workshop started from the premise that some types of solar geoengineering (SG) will be associated with incentive structures that are the inverse … More …
Governance of Research on Solar Geoengineering: African Perspectives
October 2013 | Consolidated report of three workshops in Senegal, South Africa, and Ethiopia Even SRM research has the potential to be very politically divisive. What research should proceed and when? Who will fund, conduct and oversee that research? … More …
Photophoretic levitation of engineered aerosols for geoengineering
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Sep 21; 107(38): 16428–16431. | David W. Keith1 The use of electrostatic or magnetic materials enables a class of photophoretic forces not found in nature. Photophoretic levitation could loft particles above … More …
Atmospheric Aerosols: Clouds, Chemistry, and Climate
Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | 17 April 2017 | V. Faye McNeill Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027; email: vfm2103@columbia.edu This article reviews fundamental concepts and recent developments surrounding ambient … More …
The Role of Sulfur Dioxide in Stratospheric Aerosol Formation Evaluated Using In-Situ Measurements in the Tropical Lower Stratosphere
16 May 2017 | NASA Author Manuscripts | PMC US National Library of Medicine Here we clarify the role of SO2 in maintaining SAs by using new in-situ SO2 measurements to evaluate climate models and satellite retrievals. Link To … More …
The Artificial Intelligence of Geoengineering
January / February 2013 | ETC Group In keeping with the geoengineering moratorium adopted by member governments at the UN Biodiversity Convention in 2010 and until the court makes its decision, no experimentation – outside of laboratories – can … More …
Status update on — and insights from –research in the social sciences on The Governance of SG Deployment
2018 | By Scott Barrett | Columbia University Who gets to decide whether and how Solar Geoengineering (SG) is deployed? Link To Full Report_barrett_presentation … More …
Governing the Big Bad Fix? What to do about geoengineering
29 January 2018 | by Duncan Currie | boell.de Geoengineering – large-scale manipulation of the Earth’s natural systems – is increasingly being presented as a strategy to counteract, dilute or delay climate change without disrupting energy- and resource-intensive economies through mitigation. Most … More …
Harvard University Solar Geoengineering Research Program (SGRP)
2019 | We are now accepting applications for the 2019 Fellowships. Link To HARVARD_sgrp_fellowship_2019 … More …
Early Airborne Results Address South Korean Air Quality
19 July 2017 | NASA Link To Article For six weeks in the summer of 2016 scientists from the United States and the Republic of Korea intensively studied air pollution over the Korean peninsula. Their mission: to diagnose the … More …