Challenges to materials for local glacier conservation

Nature Water, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 17, 2025

Language: Английский

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Glaciers are not just blocks of ice — plans to save them mustn’t overlook their hidden life

Nature, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 639(8056), P. 861 - 863

Published: March 24, 2025

Language: Английский

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The science of solar radiation modification: Stratospheric aerosol injections and marine cloud brightening

Elsevier eBooks, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Addressing the Urgent Need for Direct Climate Cooling: Rationale and Options

Oxford Open Climate Change, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 4(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Abstract Emissions reduction and removal are not proceeding at a pace that will limit global average warming to less than the Paris Agreement targets of 1.5°C or 2.0°C. Accelerating is indicated by record high 2023–2024 monthly temperatures annual 2023 mean surface around above pre-industrial levels. Only direct climate cooling has potential avert continued temperature rise in near term moderate least some projected change disruption including extreme weather, sea level rise, loss ice, glacier permafrost melting, coral reef die-off. Strategically deployed scale, starting term, several measures have reduce reverse warming. Others can exert local regional influences. The world needs an approach extends beyond sole reliance on emission reductions removal. We propose (i) researching, field testing deploying one more large-scale influence(s) perhaps initially polar regions applying also support adaptation, (ii) accelerating emissions with early prioritization short-lived drivers, (iii) large scale carbon draw down legacy greenhouse gas. authors make no attempt determine what mix optimal. That depend modeling experimentation. properly researched emergency “tourniquets,” near-term our “bleeding” Earth we slow then ongoing increasingly severe 21st Century.

Language: Английский

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Securing the ‘great white shield’? Climate change, Arctic security and the geopolitics of solar geoengineering

Cooperation and Conflict, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Aug. 18, 2024

The Arctic has been identified by scientists as a relatively promising venue for controversial ‘solar geoengineering’ – technical schemes to reflect more sunlight counteract global warming. Yet contemporary regional security dynamics and the relative (in)significance of climate concerns among key states suggest different conclusion. By systematically juxtaposing recently published geoengineering with strategies littoral China, we reveal detail two conflicting imaginaries. Geoengineering scientifically securitise (and seek maintain) Arctic’s ‘great white shield’ protect ‘global’ humanity against tipping points invoke past era ‘exceptionality’ greater political feasibility research interventions here. Meanwhile, state imaginaries understand an increasingly contested region considerable geopolitical peril economic opportunity temperatures rise. Alongside entangled history science geopolitics in region, this suggests that are unlikely follow scientific visions, unless co-opted into competitive, extractivist imaginaries, may prove entirely infeasible. Moreover, if is ‘best-case’ politics, places huge question mark over other, prospects.

Language: Английский

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The Science of Solar Radiation Modification: Stratospheric Aerosol Injections and Marine Cloud Brightening

Elsevier eBooks, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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