What is the UK funding for solar geoengineering?
The UK government has announced new funding for scientists to conduct outdoor experiments on solar geoengineering. £56.8m will be awarded to researchers through the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), with the aim of filling knowledge-gaps on the mechanisms and effects of various methods to cool the Earth.
Should risky solar geoengineering projects be halted?
CIEL has cautioned that risky solar geoengineering initiatives, including outdoor experiments, could violate the precautionary principle and must be halted to safeguard both people and the planet, after a UK agency unveiled it will fund solar geoengineering projects under a controversial program.
Could a £60m solar radiation modification project be a real-world experiment?
The Advanced Research and Innovation Agency (ARIA) - a government backed body - is funding nearly £60m that could allow real-world experiments, including in the UK. As part of the Exploring Climate Cooling programme, projects in Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) will involve trying to thicken Arctic sea ice and make clouds more reflective.
What is solar geoengineering?
“Solar geoengineering involves fighting pollution with pollution, under scenarios that propose deployment over hundreds of years, putting an unacceptable burden on future generations, and likely being controlled by a handful of major powers and corporations.
Is solar geoengineering dangerous?
“Solar geoengineering is inherently unpredictable and risks breaking further an already broken climate system. Solar geoengineering technologies are impossible to test for intended and unintended consequences without large-scale deployment, risking lock-in of harmful and potentially irreversible impacts.
Is the UK doing geoengineering without public consent?
Yet despite assertions that the UK's plans are in the experimental stage, they haven't stopped social media users from claiming that the country has already been engaging in geoengineering for years without public consent as a way to control the population.
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Factcheck: How the UK is – and is not – studying solar
What is the UK’s new solar geoengineering research programme? Solar geoengineering is a term used to describe a group of hypothetical technologies that could, in
Experiments to 'dim the Sun' one step closer in the UK
As part of the Exploring Climate Cooling programme, projects in Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) will involve trying to thicken Arctic sea ice and make clouds more reflective.
UK Agency Starts Funding Highly Controversial Solar
CIEL has cautioned that risky solar geoengineering initiatives, including outdoor experiments, could violate the precautionary principle and must be halted to safeguard both
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Misinformation is circulating online after a recent announcement that the UK government is going to fund outdoor geoengineering experiments. Geoengineering refers to
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These outdoor experiments won’t stand alone. At the start of April, we announced new funding to support our modelling research, which will use Earth Systems Models to
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