WEEKLY SUMMARY (01 MAY – 07 MAY 2023)
Geoengineering News
WEEKLY SUMMARY (01 MAY – 07 MAY 2023)
CONTENTS OF SUMMARY
1. Deadlines
2. Scientific Papers
3. Posts
4. Upcoming Events
5. Podcasts
6. YouTube Videos
DEADLINES
Call For Papers: 4S conference Honolulu, Nov 2023: Climate (geo)engineering interventions: from science to deployment | 26 May 2023
https://groups.google.com/g/geoengineering/c/aqaFYmGTqhA
Solar Radiation Management research funding | 31 May 2023
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/solar-radiation-management/
RESEARCH PAPERS
Opinion: The scientific and community-building roles of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) – past, present, and futurehttps://acp.copernicus.org/articles/23/5149/2023/
Quantification of tropical monsoon precipitation changes in terms of interhemispheric differences in stratospheric sulfate aerosol optical depth
Aerosol loading and tropical monsoon precipitation
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-023-06799-3
Solar geoengineering: The view from just war/securitization theories
WEB POSTS
See how a quick-fix climate solution could also trigger war
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/05/03/comic-geosolar-engineering-explained/
A Vintage Warplane Is Scouting for Clues That Geoengineering Could Actually Work
UPCOMING EVENTS
Managing the Risks of a Lack of Governance Around Solar Radiation Modification by Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative | 4 May 2023
The 21st International Conference on Nucleation & Atmospheric Aerosols by QUT School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Centre for the Environment | 26-30 June 2023
The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) 2023 meeting | 3-7 July 2023
https://sites.google.com/view/geomip-2023/home?pli=1
Climate Engineering (GRS) | 17-18 February 2024
https://www.grc.org/climate-engineering-grs-conference/2024/
GRC Climate Engineering 2024 | February 18-23, 2024
https://www.grc.org/climate-engineering-conference/2024/
PODCASTS
llution | BBC Inside Science
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001l2fl?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Surface albedo modification & heat islands - Feinberg | Reviewer 2 does geoengineering
"Alec Feinberg compares SAI with surface albedo modification, CDR, and space mirrors. In a rare moment of clarity, @geoengineering1 notices he isn't keeping up. Paper 1: Solar Geoengineering to Stop Annual Global Warming. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369034073_Solar_Geoengineering_to_Stop_Annual_Global_Warming Paper 2 Solar Geoengineering Modeling and Applications for Mitigating Global Warming: Assessing Key Parameters and the Urban Heat Island Influence, Frontiers in Climate, https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.870071"
Rocket Launch Pollution | BBC Inside Science
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001l2fl?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
YOUTUBE VIDEOS
There's a playlist with more videos on the topic, you can check it out here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF8369A27273314D8
Ultimate Climate Hack or a Recipe for Disaster? Featuring @ClimateAdam | Engineering with Rosie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcqc-he0-M
“The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid that hit the earth and caused rapid global cooling from the sulfuric aerosols dispersed by the impact. Rapid cooling sounds like just the ticket to UNDO global warming... Can we artificially recreate the cooling effects of the asteroid’s impact to erase the effects of climate change? Well, yeah, kind of. We could inject sulphuric aerosols into the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space. This idea is called solar geoengineering, also known as solar radiation management or SRM and that’s the topic of today’s video. We’re going to talk about how it works, the pros and cons and uncertainties. And especially how we should proceed. Because solar geoengineering is much less a question of “can we” than “should we”? And, we’re going to hear from my favourite atmospheric physicist, ClimateAdam, about what those aerosols could actually do to our atmosphere, and what we ought to think about before we start spraying them around everywhere."
Should we reflect sunlight to cool the planet? | Vox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKPFZPyQurA
“The climate change crisis has become so dire that we’re being forced not only to think of ways to curb emissions and mitigate greenhouse gases, but of ways to adapt to our current situation to buy ourselves more time. One of those technologies is called solar geoengineering. It happens in nature when huge volcanic eruptions cover the stratosphere with ash: That ash forms a layer that reflects sunlight and cools the planet underneath. Solar geoengineering takes advantage of that principle, using different scientific methods to make the planet more reflective overall. The problem is, deploying it would require messing with our very complicated climate on a massive scale, and many scientists don’t think the risks are worth it. To get an in-depth look at the pros and cons of solar geoengineering, we interviewed a slew of experts on both sides of the issue. Watch our explainer to decide where you stand.”