WEEKLY SUMMARY (21 AUGUST-27 AUGUST 2023)

[Geoengineering News]

	WEEKLY SUMMARY (21 AUGUST-27 AUGUST 2023) RESEARCH PAPERS Model calculations of the contribution of tropospheric SO2 to the stratospheric aerosol layer Assessing the impact of stratospheric aerosol injection on U.S. convective weather environments Effects of Intermittent Aerosol Forcing on the Stratocumulus-to-Cumulus Transition The Choice of Baseline Period Influences the Assessments of the Outcomes of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Optimizing Injection Locations Relaxes Altitude-Lifetime Trade-Off for Stratospheric Aerosol Injection WEB POSTS Without more research and guardrails, geoengineering is a costly gamble, with potentially harmful results BOOK The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics- JOB OPPORTUNITY Aerosol Research Scientist or Statistician at the University of Leeds “Aerosol-MFR is a collaboration between climate scientists and statisticians at the University of Leeds and the University of Sheffield. The project has the ambitious aim to reduce uncertainty in aerosol radiative forcing towards its maximum feasible limit using novel statistical approaches applied to climate model simulations and extensive observations. The project will produce more-realistic climate models, more-confident climate projections, as well as new information to prioritise future model developments.” DEADLINES Deadline extension – Call for proposals: DMF grants for Central America & Mexico | 31 August 2023 UPCOMING EVENTS (NEW) The Power of a New Climate Language | 25 August 2023 Conference—Solar Geoengineering Futures: Current Research and Uncertainties by Resources for the Future (RFF) | 28-29 September 2023 Climate Engineering (GRS) | 17-18 February 2024 GRC Climate Engineering 2024 | 18-23 February 2024 PODCASTS There Goes the Sun? | Positively Dreadful “We have every reason in the world to try to stop climate change. But when it comes to geoengineering––lacing the atmosphere with particles to block the sun’s warming effect––experts are split on whether the intervention would create more problems than it would solve. At this rate of global warming, though, it’s hard to imagine a scenario in which humans won’t eventually try it out. Inadvertently, we’ve already piloted the method through air pollution. Is the geoengineering genie already out of the bottle? Should we even want to stop it? Are there ways to deploy these efforts that will insure against scenarios where we wish we’d never tried? Host Brian Beutler is joined by Elizabeth Kolbert, a New Yorker staff writer and author of Under a White Sky, and Dr. David Keith, a professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago and an advocate for geoengineering research.” Space Spiders Save The World (really) | Reviewer 2 does geoengineering Space Spiders Save The World (really) Reviewer 2 does geoengineering 1:03:15 “Two guests (with extremely complicated names) discuss the ludicrousest, amazingest paper we've ever had on the show. Yes, they're seriously asking: can we use spider's silk to make giant diffraction gratings for use in space? Amira Omer Mohamed Ahmed Salim Karlsson and Johanna D'Ciofalo Khodaverdian's bachelors' thesis is available at https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1780558&dswid=-248 They were joined by their supervisor Christer Fuglesang, to make sure Reviewer 2 wasn't too mean to them.”