WEEKLY SUMMARY (26 DECEMBER 2022-01 DECEMBER 2023)
CONSULTATIONS REQUIRED
Make Sunsets plan to fly at least 3 balloons in January 2023. Comments open before finalizing launch plans.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vpPNk7f2yOzbX0UdaBDgGj-7gzObm2ZMy6RM_bWx5lA/edit
AGU Draft position statement on Climate Intervention- Comments Open to AGU Members |Due Date: 9 January 2023
DEADLINES
IUGG-IAMAS Symposium on Solar Radiation Modification-Abstract Submission Required |Due Date: 14 February 2023
PAPERS
The Future Is the Termination Shock: On the Antinomies and Psychopathologies of Geoengineering. Part One
Microphysical, macrophysical and radiative responses of subtropical marine clouds to aerosol injections
https://acp.copernicus.org/preprints/acp-2022-351/
Distinct regional meteorological influences on low cloud albedo susceptibility over global marine stratocumulus regions
POSTS
Make Sunsets Monthly: Press
Make sunsets - Calculating Cooling
https://makesunsets.com/blogs/news/calculating-cooling
Startup Claims It's Sending Sulfur Into the Atmosphere to Fight Climate Change
https://gizmodo.com/make-sunsets-solar-geoengineering-sulfur-climate-change-1849931460
Make Sunsets: Clarifications! By Luke Iseman (Co-founder of Make Sunsets) - Detailed discussion
https://groups.google.com/g/geoengineering/c/l5fmgzA34HY
January 2023 Flights @Make Sunsets
https://makesunsets.com/blogs/news/january-2023-flights
Zephalto - Low-carbon space travel
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Ethics and Solar Geoengineering: Justice, Legitimacy, and Governance in a Climate Crisis by Harvard Kennedy School
2 February 2023
GRC
Climate Engineering 2024
February 17-18, 2024
https://www.grc.org/find-a-conference/
PODCASTS
IMPORTANT! Pioneers or pirates? Make Sunsets' sell & launch SAI
By Reviewer 2 does geoengineering
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/reviewer-2-does-geoengineering/id1529459393?i=1000591767167
Luke Iseman and Andrew Song from "Make Sunsets" explain why they've launched SAI balloons and sold cooling credits to customers.
Ok, Doomer! SRM & catastrophic risk - Tang
By Reviewer 2 does geoengineering
Could SRM trigger a catastrophe that kills billions? Aaron Tang @aawktang and Gideon Futerman @GFuterman treat this subject with the seriousness you'd expect from Reviewer 2.
YOUTUBE
There's a playlist with more videos on topic, you can check it here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF8369A27273314D8
C2GTalk: Should the world consider solar radiation modification in light of the latest IPCC findings
By C2G Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJtULJdz0WI
More research and better governance is needed to help developing countries make decisions about solar radiation modification (SRM), says Thelma Krug, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) during a C2GTalk.
Climate change technology: is shading the earth too risky?
By The Economist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFMMssyRsWo
If the world is getting too hot, why not give it some shade? Solar geoengineering could halt global warming, but there are risks to this controversial technology.
Assessing Solar Radiation Modification - #GESDASummit 2022
By GESDA Global
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxN2eK5WdBc&t=47s
Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) has been scientifically, politically and societally divisive. Some experts don’t even want to discuss proposals to go on with fundamental research in the field. There is fear that future societies could succumb to “techno fix” attitudes, potentially damaging current climate change mitigation policies. Other experts believe that interventions such as cloud brightening, aerosol injection, and creating more reflective surfaces must be part of a possible intervention portfolio, especially if other measures fail. Regardless of position, both sides agree that the planet’s future is in peril and people and governments must act.
The Planet after Geoengineering | Design Earth at The World Around
By the World Around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_n0uMa46Io
Rania Ghosn performs a reading of the studio’s graphic novel, The Planet after Geoengineering, a companion to their eponymous project curated by Hashim Sarkis and exhibited at the 2021 Venice Biennale of Architecture. The novel makes climate engineering and its controversies visible in a series of five stories, collectively assembled into a planetary section from the deep underground to outer space, seeking to understand pressing issues during this time of climate crisis.
Frank Bierman, Solar Geo Engineering - A solution or yet a threat?
By Researchers Desk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NAt7psIHsM
Why we need to have a serious thought about Solar Geo Engineering