Science 2.0: Geoengineering: Ocean Pipes Would Make Climate Worse
„A new study from a group of Carnegie scientists determines that these types of pipes could actually increase global warming quite drastically.“
„A new study from a group of Carnegie scientists determines that these types of pipes could actually increase global warming quite drastically.“
„In this program we talk with one of the world’s top experts on geoeningeering to cool the planet, Harvard’s Dr. David Keith. Then from the UK, Dr. Rose Cairns investigates the internet phenomenon of chemtrails, the belief that aircraft are already poisoning the sky.“
„[…] society is no longer at the point where ignorance about albedo modification is acceptable.“
Media response to Kwiatkowski, Lester; et al. (2015). „Ocean heat-exchange pipes would drive more warming in the long run“
Media response to Kwiatkowski, Lester; et al. (2015). „A new study from a group of Carnegie scientists determines that these types of pipes could actually increase global warming quite drastically.“
On negative emissions/BECCS. „Both of the Shell New Lens scenarios end in a[nbsp] net zero emissions outcome by the end of the century, but this is within the energy system itself and does not encompass the full range of other sources of CO2 emissions and other long lived greenhouse gases.“
Media response to Kwiatkowski, Lester; et al. (2015). „The team, which also included lead author Lester Kwiatkowski as well as Katharine Ricke, configured a model to test this idea and what they found surprised them.“
Kwiatkowski, Lester; Ricke, Katharine L.; Caldeira, Ken (2015): Atmospheric consequences of disruption of the ocean thermocline. In: Environ. Res. Lett. 10 (3), S. 034016. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034016.
„To help bound potential climate consequences of these activities, we perform a set of simulations involving idealized disruption of the ocean thermocline by greatly increasing vertical mixing in the upper ocean. We use an Earth System Model (ESM) to evaluate the likely thermal and hydrological response of the atmosphere to this scenario.“
„Do leading climate engineering proposals offer a realistic form of response to climate change? What are the major scientific, political, and social challenges to climate engineering’s development? Do the potential benefits of climate engineering research outweigh the risk that it will be used as an excuse not to deal with carbon emissions today?“
Letters that also include CE.