In Science magazine, scholars call for more comprehensive research into solar geoengineering
Nov 2021, phys.org
They use the term "climate mitigation" which is interesting in comparison to the former "climate remediation" that is now going out of favor. These terms are used almost interchangeably in the industrial hygiene and environmental health profession, but to remediate means you can completely remove the hazard, whereas to mitigate means to make it less worse.
Three themes presented in the papers:
- Assessing and quantifying the costs and benefits of SG (solar geoengineering), and the potential for risk-risk trade-offs associated with its use.
- Understanding the "political economy of deployment," including the incentives for unilateral deployment and the potential multilateral governance of SG decision-making.
- Evaluating how SG may fit in a portfolio of policies, such as emission mitigation, and adaptation, to combat climate change, including closer study of public and expert perceptions of SG.
via Harvard University: David W. Keith, Towards more constructive disagreement about solar geoengineering, Science (2021). DOI: 10.1126/science.abj1587.
Also: Joseph Aldy, Social science research to inform solar geoengineering, Science (2021). DOI: 10.1126/science.abj6517.
Keeping track:
Here's a couple Google ngrams charts comparing common and not so common climate-related words:
Post Script:
Perhaps more importantly, let us not forget that during the pandemic, the year 2020-2021 (the pandemic is one big year by the way, don't try breaking it up), the world's two foremost science fiction writers, unbeknownst to each other, both wrote a book about solar geoengineering, and with at least one of them being credited with creating a new genre called non-fiction science fiction and also cli-fi.
If you're trying to do some existential mitigation on yourself prior to the planetary apocalypse, read these books:
Termination Shock, Neal Stephenson, Nov 2021 (Harper Collins)
The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson, Oct 2020 (Orbit Books)
Falsely related image credit: That's not a picture of a planet, but it does look like it. Instead, it's two thumbnails in a row, one about cells and the other about neutrinos. I started collecting the accidental positioning of successive similar thumbnails. It's the small things that keep you going while you watch the downfall of traditional science journalism in the face of high-frequency algo-powered news aggregator feeds.
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