Pfrommer, T. (2018): Diverging Regional Climate Preferences and the Assessment of Solar Geoengineering
Pfrommer, T. (2018): Diverging Regional Climate Preferences and the Assessment of Solar Geoengineering. Heidelberg (Discussion Paper Series, 0654). DOI: 10.11588/heidok.00025204
„Solar Geoengineering (SG) is a set of potential technologies to counteract climate change. While SG can only imperfectly compensate for temperature changes at the regional level, studies assessing regional SG impacts indicated so far that regional temperature disparities from SG may not be as severe as previously thought. A shortcoming of that literature is its assumption that regions’ temperature preferences correspond to some historic baseline climate. I extend the main framework for examining regional SG impacts by allowing for regions to have temperature preferences diverging from the baseline climate, showing that the impact of these diverging preferences can be split into two components.“