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21 - The Path Forward for Solar Radiation Management

from Section VI - The Path Forward

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2022

Wake Smith
Wake Smith
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Harvard University, Massachusetts
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On the SRM side of the toolbox, we are at an even earlier stage, so the go-forward imperative here is not development but simply research. We need a much more sound understanding as to whether and how these interventions might work and how we might domesticate them via thoughtful and inclusive governance. The SRM sibling to the National Academies report described above was issued in spring 2021. It recommends an expenditure of $100–200 million over five years, a small fraction of the proposed budget for CDR. Nonetheless, this would be a vast expansion of resources for the field. My personal path forward entails working with colleagues to design aircraft that could be useful in such research.

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developing a research agenda and research governance approaches for climate intervention strategies that reflect sunlight to cool the earthfield testsexit rampsresearch aircraftSAIR-01SARA-01NASA High Altitude Fleet
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Pandora's Toolbox
The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention
 , pp. 326 - 339
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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