Irvine, P.; Emanuel, K.; He, J.; Horowitz, L.; Vecchi, G.; Keith, D. (2019): Halving warming with idealized solar geoengineering moderates key climate hazards. In: Nature Climate change. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0398-8.

"Solar geoengineering (SG) has the potential to restore average surface temperatures by increasing planetary albedo, but this could reduce precipitation. Thus, although SG might reduce globally aggregated risks, it may increase climate risks for some regions. Here, using the high-resolution forecast-oriented low ocean resolution (HiFLOR) model—which resolves tropical cyclones and has an improved representation of present-day precipitation extremes^—alongside 12 models from the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP), we analyse the fraction of locations that see their local climate change exacerbated or moderated by SG. Rather than restoring temperatures, we assume that SG is applied to halve the warming produced by doubling CO₂ (half-SG)."

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"We are now inviting proposals for sessions related to the theme of ‘Securing sustainable futures’. Session proposals can focus on specific methods or approaches and how these are or could be used across different application domains, or instead focus on the treatment of deep uncertainty within a specific domain or context."

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"Geoengineering is controversial in the climate change community, and understandably so. Proposed interventions like negative emissions technologies (a.k.a. carbon dioxide removal) and solar geoengineering (a.k.a. solar radiation management or SRM) involve large-scale intervention in the climate system that could have adverse physical or social impacts. At the same time, some geoengineering methods could substantially reduce climate change."

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