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New Climate Studies and Public Engagement Center launch in the San Francisco Bay Area

New Climate Studies and Public Engagement Center launch in the San Francisco Bay Area

The Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) Program, an open collaboration of atmospheric scientists and other experts to study how clouds respond to particles — also called aerosols — in the atmosphere, today initiated new climate studies and launched the Coastal Atmospheric Aerosol Research and Engagement (CAARE) facility at the USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate located in Alameda, California.

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SilverLining Applauds Discussions on Climate Intervention Research at the UN Environment Assembly
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SilverLining Applauds Discussions on Climate Intervention Research at the UN Environment Assembly

The Sixth Session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) in Kenya is concluding today. A significant topic of the international convening was a proposed resolution to establish a panel to review scientific and societal considerations on a prominent form of rapid climate intervention: releasing particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight or alter the properties of clouds, also known as solar radiation modification (SRM).

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Climate intervention requires international research and the Global South has contributions to make
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Climate intervention requires international research and the Global South has contributions to make

Challenging times are ahead for all of us who call this small blue planet home. The planet will continue warming due to emissions already in the atmosphere at least for the next 40 years even if we stop polluting right now, and yet emissions continue to rise. Tragically, we are in a place where emission reductions are not advancing fast enough and we don't have any indication that our elected leaders are ready to step up to the challenge. In this context, we’ll have to rely on human ingenuity and our unprecedented problem solving capacity to protect our common future. All options must be on the table.

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Empowering Youth for Climate Intervention: Insights from the 2023 Global Youth Summit on Near-term Climate Risks and Interventions
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Empowering Youth for Climate Intervention: Insights from the 2023 Global Youth Summit on Near-term Climate Risks and Interventions

The recent Sixth Assessment (AR6) synthesis report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints a stark reality - the world is hurtling towards surpassing the critical 1.5°C global warming threshold. The imperative to limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is not merely a statistic, but a safeguard against an array of catastrophic impacts.

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SilverLining comment on the proposed “AGU Ethical Framework Principles on Climate Intervention Research”
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SilverLining comment on the proposed “AGU Ethical Framework Principles on Climate Intervention Research”

We are supportive of the concerns driving the AGU’s Ethics Framework effort; but we are concerned that the deficiencies in the draft document and the process by which it is being developed pose risks to the generation of scientific evidence on climate interventions, to scientific independence and objectivity, and to its own stated goals of transparency, inclusiveness and justice.

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Climate intervention: an option for Global South to reduce near-term climate risk?
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Climate intervention: an option for Global South to reduce near-term climate risk?

With nearly 36.3 billion tonnes of CO2 estimated to have been released into the atmosphere in 2021 alone, it came as no surprise the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest synthesis report on climate science projected that the earth’s surface temperature will increase over the current century under all assessed emission scenarios.

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Perspectives on NAS Report Recommending a Federal Research Program on Sunlight Reflection
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Perspectives on NAS Report Recommending a Federal Research Program on Sunlight Reflection

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences recently published a new report, "Developing a Research Agenda and Research Governance Approaches for Climate Intervention Strategies that Reflect Sunlight to Cool Earth," in which it recommended a robust, interdisciplinary, multi-agency research program for the United States alongside cooperative international efforts.

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Summary: NASEM Report on Developing a Research Agenda and Examining Governance Approaches for Climate Intervention
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Summary: NASEM Report on Developing a Research Agenda and Examining Governance Approaches for Climate Intervention

On March 25, 2021, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) published Developing a Research Agenda and Research Governance Approaches for Climate Intervention Strategies that Reflect Sunlight to Cool Earth, a long-awaited report that SilverLining played a role in bringing to bear. You can read SilverLining's statement on the report here.

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Statement on NASEM Report on Developing a Research Agenda and Examining Governance Approaches for Climate Intervention
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Statement on NASEM Report on Developing a Research Agenda and Examining Governance Approaches for Climate Intervention

Today, SilverLining issued the following statement on the release of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report on developing a research agenda and researching governance approaches for climate intervention strategies that reflect sunlight to cool Earth.

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