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The Hill: Climate intervention research: An insurance policy for near-term climate risks
Climate change is one of the most critical challenges facing humanity. It currently presents an overwhelming disaster risk for which we currently lack sufficient responses.
World Economic Forum: 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.
IEEE Spectrum: Climate Expert on Crucial Research on Climate Interventions
The leaders of the world have just returned from the UN’s latest climate change summit, COP26, in which the countries that have signed on to the Paris Agreement upped their commitments to fight climate change.
HPC Wire: Amazon, NCAR, SilverLining Team for Unprecedented Cloud Climate Simulations
Earth’s climate is, to put it mildly, not in a good place. In the wake of a damning report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists and HPC practitioners are sounding the alarm bells even louder: climate change is real, it’s here and it’s accelerating.
IEEE Spectrum: Here’s How We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool The Climate
"Ship tracks" over the ocean reveal a new strategy to fight climate change.
Morning Consult: In a First, Global Climate Models Will Be Made Available Via the Cloud
Collaboration between Amazon, SilverLining and the National Center for Atmospheric Research aims to democratize access to climate simulations
The New York Times: As Climate Disasters Pile Up, a Radical Proposal Gains Traction
The idea of modifying Earth’s atmosphere to cool the planet, once seen as too risky to seriously consider, is attracting new money and attention.
Digital Journal: Beyond ‘geoengineering’ and towards emergency medicine for climate
Scientists have suggested that a necessary and rapid reduction in climate warming might be best achieved through the reflection of sunlight from clouds and particles in the atmosphere.