WEEKLY SUMMARY 06 FEBRUARY 2023 - 12 FEBRUARY 2023
Geoengineering News
WEEKLY SUMMARY 06 FEBRUARY 2023 - 12 FEBRUARY 2023
CONTENTS OF SUMMARY
1) Deadlines
2) Upcoming Events
3) Scientific Papers
4) Discussions
5) Posts
6) Podcasts
7) YouTube Videos
1) DEADLINES
IUGG-IAMAS Symposium on Solar Radiation Modification-Abstract Submission Required |Due Date: 14 February 2023
https://www.iugg2023berlin.org/
Paper Invitation with Discount: [Atmosphere, IF 3.110] Special Issue “Aerosol Cloud Radiation Interactions | Due Date: 28 February 2023
2) UPCOMING EVENTS
Here is the link to the Google calendar including events on the geoengineering topic: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=MzhjNGQ1OGQzMjIwZDkyYTBjZGE2YjEwMDMzODNkZTI1MTNjYjQzZTdkMTdhMjU0ODk0MDU1NTgzYTlkNTFmNkBncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t
(NEW) Solar Geoengineering Virtual Symposia | 17 February 2023
https://sites.google.com/view/solargeo-symposium/home?pli=1
(NEW) The Science and Governance of Climate-Altering Techniques: Implications for Sustainable Development by C2G| 23 February 2023
https://www.c2g2.net/world-sustainable-development-summit-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
GRC Climate Engineering 2024 | February
17-18, 2024
https://www.grc.org/find-a-conference/
3) SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
Right to Food and Geoengineering
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10806-023-09898-7
Hydrological Consequences of Solar Geoengineering
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-earth-031920-083456
Dust as a solar shield
https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000133
The Potential Environmental and Climate Impacts of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection: A Review - Preprint
https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/63cea8ad1a1ead1bebb4d1b3
Governing climate geoengineering: Side-payments are not enough
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/724286
Slippery Slope Arguments as Precautionary Arguments: A New Way of Understanding the Concern about Geoengineering Research
4) DISCUSSIONS
Geoengineering or not?
5) POSTS
Facebook co-founder Moskovitz funds research into cooling the Earth
The Degrees Initiative announces a doubling of SRM research in the Global South
HCI Update on Saving our Glaciers
6) PODCASTS
CHALLENGING CLIMATE TAKEOVER - BARRIER REEF MCB | Reviewer 2 does geoengineering
Daniel Harrison on Marine Cloud Brightening and the RRAP | Challenging Climate
https://www.challengingclimate.org/1873533/12165823
Dr Daniel Harrison is an oceanographer at Southern Cross University in Australia. His research focuses on how engineering intervention in marine systems can be used to improve ecological, environmental, or societal outcomes. In this episode, we explore Daniel’s work in applying Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) to protect the Great Barrier Reef against global warming. We find out what MCB is, discuss how it can be implemented responsibly and effectively to save the Great Barrier Reef, and other potential applications.
C2GTalk: How will global warming impact society, both economically and socially? with Paulo Artaxo | CARNEGIE COUNCIL PODCASTS
https://www.c2g2.net/paulo-artaxo/
Research on solar radiation modification is needed, especially in the Global South, to understand whether it could be an option for reducing climate risk, said Professor Paulo Artaxo during a C2GTalk. The planet is currently headed for 3°C global warming, yet the world is still not doing enough to phase out fossil fuels and net zero goals look extremely difficult to achieve.
Local cooling, SAI, & CDR – Baiman | Reviewer 2 does geoengineering
Some of the topics talked about in the podcast:
1) US Climate policy,
2) Radical or heterodox economics, Neoclassical or orthodox economics, and the DICE model,
3) The need for urgent direct climate cooling to have any impact on reducing climate harm in the short-run (at least) the next few decades,
4) Discussions of local versus global, high leverage versus low leverage, with economic costs or benefits, direct climate cooling methods,
5) Discussion of net-zero warming plateau even as ocean uptake of carbon continues, to the disconnect between climate scientists and activists like us who are “screaming hair on fire” that only direct climate cooling can reduce climate harm now and the earlier “marching orders” that politicians and general public received that doing something about climate means “checking the box” on emissions cuts or net-zero,
6) How the long-run GHG reduction and removal coupled with natural regeneration is not going to happen (at least not expeditiously at scale) without massive transfers of funding and technology from rich to poor countries of well above $4 T per year,
7) How this expeditious transfer will not occur without a mandatory global cap and trade regime like Kyoto that transferred $303 B in mandatory CDM offset funding mostly to China, compared to the purely voluntary Paris Accord GCF voluntary donation efforts that have raised only $ 18 B,
8) How the EU that continued the Kyoto mandatory regime is only major region in the world to actually reduce GHG emissions since 1990,
9) Why focusing on and debating SAI as a single binary yes or no choice on climate cooling is ill informed and counterproductive to the cause of urgently focusing on and prioritizing direct climate cooling now,
10) As we work on GHG removal and natural regeneration so that we can emerge from our current energy and material “hunter gatherer” industrial civilization “Sinai” to the sustainable and potentially much more equitable renewable energy and materials “farmer cultivator” industrial civilization “promised land” in the long-run.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/local-cooling-sai-cdr-baiman/id1529459393?i=1000598002442
7) 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
John Ferguson: Who are the most legitimate advocates for SRM research today? | C2G Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLaqMubOH3g
Who are the most legitimate advocates for solar radiation Modification research today?
How will global warming impact society, both economically and socially? | C2G Talk
https://www.c2g2.net/paulo-artaxo/
Research on solar radiation modification is needed, especially in the Global South, to understand whether it could be an option for reducing climate risk, said Professor Paulo Artaxo during a C2GTalk. The planet is currently headed for 3°C global warming, yet the world is still not doing enough to phase out fossil fuels and net zero goals look extremely difficult to achieve.