Inst. for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam (Germany); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division
Inst. for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam (Germany)
Potsdam Inst. for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam (Germany). Research Domain of Earth System Analysis; Humboldt Univ. of Berlin (Germany). Geography Dept.
Univ. of Liverpool (United Kingdom). Inst. of Infection and Global Health
Univ. of Nottingham (United Kingdom). School of Geography
Univ. of Bristol (United Kingdom). School of Earth Sciences
Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States). Dept. of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands). Inst. for
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics
Univ. of Oslo (Norway). Dept. of Geosciences
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany)
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), College Park, MD (United States). Joint Global Change Research Inst.
Despite a growing literature on the climate response to solar geoengineering—proposals to cool the planet by increasing the planetary albedo—there has been little published on the impacts of solar geoengineering on natural and human systems such as agriculture, health, water resources, and ecosystems. An understanding of the impacts of different scenarios of solar geoengineering deployment will be crucial for informing decisions on whether and how to deploy it. Here we review the current state of knowledge about impacts of a solar-geoengineered climate and identify the major research gaps. We suggest that a thorough assessment of the climate impacts of a range of scenarios of solar geoengineering deployment is needed and can be built upon existing frameworks. However, solar geoengineering poses a novel challenge for climate impacts research as the manner of deployment could be tailored to pursue different objectives making possible a wide range of climate outcomes. We present a number of ideas for approaches to extend the survey of climate impacts beyond standard scenarios of solar geoengineering deployment to address this challenge. Reducing the impacts of climate change is the fundamental motivator for emissions reductions and for considering whether and how to deploy solar geoengineering. This means that the active engagement of the climate impacts research community will be important for improving the overall understanding of the opportunities, challenges, and risks presented by solar geoengineering.
Irvine, Peter J., et al. "Towards a comprehensive climate impacts assessment of solar geoengineering." Earth's Future, vol. 5, no. 1, Nov. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016ef000389
Irvine, Peter J., Kravitz, Ben, Lawrence, Mark G., Gerten, Dieter, Caminade, Cyril, Gosling, Simon N., Hendy, Erica J., Kassie, Belay T., Kissling, W. Daniel, Muri, Helene, Oschlies, Andreas, & Smith, Steven J. (2016). Towards a comprehensive climate impacts assessment of solar geoengineering. Earth's Future, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/2016ef000389
Irvine, Peter J., Kravitz, Ben, Lawrence, Mark G., et al., "Towards a comprehensive climate impacts assessment of solar geoengineering," Earth's Future 5, no. 1 (2016), https://doi.org/10.1002/2016ef000389
@article{osti_1343941,
author = {Irvine, Peter J. and Kravitz, Ben and Lawrence, Mark G. and Gerten, Dieter and Caminade, Cyril and Gosling, Simon N. and Hendy, Erica J. and Kassie, Belay T. and Kissling, W. Daniel and Muri, Helene and others},
title = {Towards a comprehensive climate impacts assessment of solar geoengineering},
annote = {Despite a growing literature on the climate response to solar geoengineering—proposals to cool the planet by increasing the planetary albedo—there has been little published on the impacts of solar geoengineering on natural and human systems such as agriculture, health, water resources, and ecosystems. An understanding of the impacts of different scenarios of solar geoengineering deployment will be crucial for informing decisions on whether and how to deploy it. Here we review the current state of knowledge about impacts of a solar-geoengineered climate and identify the major research gaps. We suggest that a thorough assessment of the climate impacts of a range of scenarios of solar geoengineering deployment is needed and can be built upon existing frameworks. However, solar geoengineering poses a novel challenge for climate impacts research as the manner of deployment could be tailored to pursue different objectives making possible a wide range of climate outcomes. We present a number of ideas for approaches to extend the survey of climate impacts beyond standard scenarios of solar geoengineering deployment to address this challenge. Reducing the impacts of climate change is the fundamental motivator for emissions reductions and for considering whether and how to deploy solar geoengineering. This means that the active engagement of the climate impacts research community will be important for improving the overall understanding of the opportunities, challenges, and risks presented by solar geoengineering.},
doi = {10.1002/2016ef000389},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1343941},
journal = {Earth's Future},
issn = {ISSN 2328-4277},
number = {1},
volume = {5},
place = {United States},
publisher = {American Geophysical Union (AGU)},
year = {2016},
month = {11}}
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Univ. of Liverpool (United Kingdom); Univ. of Oslo (Norway); GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; Medical Research Council (MRC) (United Kingdom); Norwegian Research Council (Norway); German Research Foundation (DFG) (Germany)
Contributing Organization:
Univ. of Nottingham (United Kingdom); Univ. of Bristol (United Kingdom); Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands); Inst. for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam (Germany); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); Potsdam Inst. for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam (Germany); Humboldt Univ. of Berlin (Germany); Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
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