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https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603349/geoengineering-gets-green-light-from-federal-scientists/[font face=Serif][font size=5]Geoengineering Gets Green Light from Federal Scientists[/font]
[font size=4]For the first time, funding from the U.S. government may be spent on man-made approaches to ease climate change.[/font]
by Jamie Condliffe | January 11, 2017
[font size=3]Scientific advisors to the U.S. government have for the first time urged Congress to fund federal geoengineering research to battle climate change.
The shift in stance appears in an updated roadmap for federal funding of climate research that was published earlier this week by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The report notes that the research could provide insight into the science needed to understand potential pathways for climate intervention or geoengineering and the possible consequences of any such measures, both intended and unintended.
Two main geoengineering approaches for fighting climate change exist. One is sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to reduce its warming effects, the other increasing how much sunlight the Earth reflects. The new roadmap proposes that both approaches should be investigated.
The idea of using man-made techniques to ease the effects of climate change is not a new onebut while popular among many scientists, it has proven controversial. Skeptics have warned that testing geoengineering approaches at scale is risky, because no one understands what their effects might be.
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[font size=4]For the first time, funding from the U.S. government may be spent on man-made approaches to ease climate change.[/font]
by Jamie Condliffe | January 11, 2017
[font size=3]Scientific advisors to the U.S. government have for the first time urged Congress to fund federal geoengineering research to battle climate change.
The shift in stance appears in an updated roadmap for federal funding of climate research that was published earlier this week by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The report notes that the research could provide insight into the science needed to understand potential pathways for climate intervention or geoengineering and the possible consequences of any such measures, both intended and unintended.
Two main geoengineering approaches for fighting climate change exist. One is sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to reduce its warming effects, the other increasing how much sunlight the Earth reflects. The new roadmap proposes that both approaches should be investigated.
The idea of using man-made techniques to ease the effects of climate change is not a new onebut while popular among many scientists, it has proven controversial. Skeptics have warned that testing geoengineering approaches at scale is risky, because no one understands what their effects might be.
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Geoengineering Gets Green Light from Federal Scientists (Original Post)
OKIsItJustMe
Jan 2017
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NickB79
(19,258 posts)1. The path to hell is paved with good intentions. nt
OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)2. The road to Hell is paved with inaction
Had we pursued Jimmy Carters energy policies, including R&D of solar, wind, geothermal and other technologies, we might be in much better shape today. Instead, we have to hope we can make up for lost time.
The smart money says we cannot.
OK, so
shall we wait until we are desperate before researching these technologies? Because it is virtually certain that we will employ them sooner or later.