The Arctic Stabilization Initiative raises $6.5 million to assess options to reduce tipping point risks in some of Earth’s most critical climate systems.
long over due, and government and private initiatives to mitigate tipping points . This is mission critical and the first priority of governments and humans to have addressed and experimented small scale for large scale adoptions. The people in the know have to put up the plans get together and demand. @ alg0rhythm.infy.uk
Where does solar radiation management techniques including stratospheric aerosol injection and marine cloud brightening fit into the effort?
In addition how is your program coordinating with the efforts at UArctic by John Moore and others to assess dozens of potential techniques to slow or stop the effects of climate change?
Thanks for the question! ASI takes a systems approach to Arctic stabilization, which means our goal is to identify the set of sets of interventions that could work together in complementary ways. Shortwave focused (e.g., Marine Cloud Brightening) and longwave focused approaches (e.g., Mixed-Phase Cloud Thinning), for example, could work together seasonally toward outcomes of interest, like recovering sea ice extent.
The first phase of our research program focuses on Mixed-Phase Cloud Thinning (MCT), because it has several strategic advantages relative to other proposed interventions and is significantly underexplored relative to what is known about its potential. In later research phases, we plan to scope and prioritize additional Arctic-targeted interventions, which may include shortwave-focused approaches and others.
On UArctic’s work: we use analyses like theirs (and Ocean Visions), which survey the landscape of proposed interventions, to inform our early prioritization of which interventions to potentially advance into ASI’s stage-gated framework.
long over due, and government and private initiatives to mitigate tipping points . This is mission critical and the first priority of governments and humans to have addressed and experimented small scale for large scale adoptions. The people in the know have to put up the plans get together and demand. @ alg0rhythm.infy.uk
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Where does solar radiation management techniques including stratospheric aerosol injection and marine cloud brightening fit into the effort?
In addition how is your program coordinating with the efforts at UArctic by John Moore and others to assess dozens of potential techniques to slow or stop the effects of climate change?
Thanks for the question! ASI takes a systems approach to Arctic stabilization, which means our goal is to identify the set of sets of interventions that could work together in complementary ways. Shortwave focused (e.g., Marine Cloud Brightening) and longwave focused approaches (e.g., Mixed-Phase Cloud Thinning), for example, could work together seasonally toward outcomes of interest, like recovering sea ice extent.
The first phase of our research program focuses on Mixed-Phase Cloud Thinning (MCT), because it has several strategic advantages relative to other proposed interventions and is significantly underexplored relative to what is known about its potential. In later research phases, we plan to scope and prioritize additional Arctic-targeted interventions, which may include shortwave-focused approaches and others.
On UArctic’s work: we use analyses like theirs (and Ocean Visions), which survey the landscape of proposed interventions, to inform our early prioritization of which interventions to potentially advance into ASI’s stage-gated framework.