An overview of the Earth system science of solar geoengineering

PJ Irvine, B Kravitz, MG Lawrence… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Solar geoengineering has been proposed as a means to cool the Earth by increasing the
reflection of sunlight back to space, for example, by injecting reflective aerosol particles (or …

The ethics of geoengineering: A literature review

A Pamplany, B Gordijn, P Brereton - Science and Engineering Ethics, 2020 - Springer
Geoengineering as a technological intervention to avert the dangerous climate change has
been on the table at least since 2006. The global outreach of the technology exercised in a …

The risk of termination shock from solar geoengineering

A Parker, PJ Irvine - Earth's Future, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
If solar geoengineering were to be deployed so as to mask a high level of global warming,
and then stopped suddenly, there would be a rapid and damaging rise in temperatures. This …

The future is the termination shock: on the antinomies and psychopathologies of geoengineering. Part two

A Malm - Historical Materialism, 2023 - brill.com
As capitalist society remains incapable of addressing climate breakdown, one measure is
waiting in the wings: solar geoengineering. No other technology can cut global temperatures …

Assessing climate change's contribution to global catastrophic risk

SJ Beard, L Holt, A Tzachor, L Kemp, S Avin, P Torres… - Futures, 2021 - Elsevier
Many have claimed that climate change is an imminent threat to humanity, but there is no
way to verify such claims. This is concerning, especially given the prominence of some of …

A fate worse than warming? Stratospheric aerosol injection and global catastrophic risk

A Tang, L Kemp - Frontiers in Climate, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Injecting particles into atmosphere to reflect sunlight, stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI),
represents a potential technological solution to the threat of climate change. But could the …

The case for technosignatures: Why they may be abundant, long-lived, highly detectable, and unambiguous

JT Wright, J Haqq-Misra, A Frank… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The intuition suggested by the Drake equation implies that technology should be less
prevalent than biology in the galaxy. However, it has been appreciated for decades in the …

Sleepwalking into lock-in? Avoiding wrongs to future people in the governance of solar radiation management research

C McKinnon - Environmental Politics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Arguments are advanced for two ways in which we can avoid the reckless endangerment of
future people in the governance of solar radiation management (SRM) research, which …

Existential security: Towards a security framework for the survival of humanity

NA Sears - Global Policy, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Humankind faces a growing spectrum of anthropogenic existential threats to human
civilization and survival. This article therefore aims to develop a new framework for security …

[КНИГА][B] Here be dragons: Science, technology and the future of humanity

O Häggström - 2016 - books.google.com
There is a widely held conception that progress in science and technology is our salvation,
and the more of it, the better. This, however, is an oversimplified and even dangerous …