Tag: Geoengineering

  • Science & Tech

    An umbrella to combat warming

    Harvard’s Keutsch Research Group is working on a controversial idea that might someday be our best hope against climate change: stratospheric aerosol injection.

    5–8 minutes
    Frank Keutsch stand is a thermal vacuum chamber
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    Mitigating the risk of geoengineering

    To halt the rise of global temperatures, Harvard researchers are looking at solar geoengineering, which would inject light-reflecting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere to cool the planet.

    3–5 minutes
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    Climate engineering: In from the cold

    Harvard Professor David Keith says that two new reports by the National Academy of Sciences are likely to boost a deeper look at possible geoengineering options for climate engineering.

    3–5 minutes
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    Geoengineering: Opportunity or folly?

    Scholars on opposite sides of geoengineering debated the climate change strategy’s potential — pitfalls and benefits — this week at the Science Center.

    4–6 minutes
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    A notion to cool the skies

    An international regulatory framework is needed to govern possible research and deployment of engineering approaches to counter climate change, an authority on environmental law says.

    2–4 minutes
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    Cautious geohacking

    By tailoring geoengineering efforts by region and by need, a new model promises to maximize the effectiveness of solar radiation management while mitigating its potential side effects and risks.

    3–4 minutes
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    Expert: Lift taboo on Earth engineering

    University of Calgary Professor David Keith calls for investment in geoengineering research as part of the search for solutions to climate change.

    4–6 minutes