Just published important paper on four methods to directly cool the climate at the poles.

[H simmens]

This just published study - see link below- focuses on the potential that four direct climate cooling methods - SAI, MCB, CCT and sea ice albedo modification through microbeads (as the Arctic Ice Project is working on) - may have on the poles. 

This is apparently the first such paper to undertake this analysis. 

A portion of the plain language summary is excepted below: 

“In this study we review for the first time the evidence on how various forms of solar geoengineering would impact the Arctic and Antarctic. We find that while solar geoengineering is less effective in the polar regions, which receive less sunlight to reflect away than the lower latitudes, global deployment could meaningfully reduce all the projected changes due to climate change which we assess. The potential effectiveness of local polar schemes, which would aim to change the energy balance only over the Arctic or Antarctic, remains very uncertain. The limited evidence we have suggests such options would be insufficient to prevent regional change under high emissions scenarios.”

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023EF003679

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Herb Simmens

Author A Climate Vocabulary of the Future 

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