Hi Renaud, I'd hoped to nudge people into reading the interview on their way to the paper, but for anyone wants to dash straight for the science - and it is worth the dash - you can read Pinto et al, 2020, here: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GL086047?af=R.
Here also is the plain language summary: *We investigate the potential impact of artificially reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth's surface on the climate over sub‐Saharan Africa. Human induced warming is projected to increase the magnitude and frequency of extreme events, whose impacts are already being felt in vulnerable regions in sub‐Saharan Africa. Large volcanic eruptions can reduce the global mean temperature. Similarly, the continuous injection of microscopic particles in the upper atmosphere to artificially reduce some of the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface has been proposed as a measure to reduce global temperature while emissions are reduced. The impact of such actions on regional climate extremes is still unclear especially in sub‐Saharan Africa. We analyzed climate model simulations from the Geoengineering Large Ensemble to explore the projected impact of artificial sunlight reduction on climate extremes sub‐Saharan Africa with continued emissions of greenhouse gases. We found that artificially altering the sunlight reduces mean and extreme temperatures, while the effect on rainfall is not as linear and remains uncertain.* Andy On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 7:22:02 PM UTC+1, renaud.derichter wrote: > > Hi Andy, > Don't you forgot giving the link to that article and the title and > references of it? > Bw > Renaud > > Le mer. 29 avr. 2020 à 15:09, Andy Parker <apar...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > a écrit : > >> Hi all, >> >> >> As some of you will know, the SRM Governance Initiative (SRMGI) funds a >> number of pioneering SRM research projects in the Global South. Through our >> DECIMALS >> Fund <http://www.srmgi.org/decimals-fund/> we support eight teams of >> scientists who are modelling how SRM could affect their regions – in >> Argentina, Bangladesh, Benin, Indonesia, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jamaica and >> South Africa. This is part of a longer-term mission to build capacity and >> make sure that developing countries are central to global efforts to >> evaluate SRM. >> >> >> Recently we hit a major milestone when a team the University of Cape Town >> published the first African research paper on SRM - also the first paper to >> come from our DECIMALS grants. In our April newsletter >> <https://mailchi.mp/e97811bc85dc/srmgi-spring-2019-newsletter-2726360?fbclid=IwAR0f1WK_fxhQFQKIOH2dPra_b_vHJiPHLS2Pf0hkBnxTKDIEpZPWgIPL0i4> >> >> we featured an interview with the paper’s lead author, Mozambican >> climatologist Dr Izidine Pinto. His story is terrific – going from failing >> physics and chemistry at his overcrowded high school to becoming a lead >> author for the IPCC. You can read the interview here: >> http://www.srmgi.org/2020/04/15/interview-with-dr-izidine-pinto/. It >> also reviews the main conclusions of the research paper. >> >> >> And if you’d like to stay in touch with SRMGI’s activities and hear about >> future DECIMALS publications, you can sign up for our newsletter here: >> https://mailchi.mp/78e782a7d7a6/srmgi-newsletter-sign-up >> <https://mailchi.mp/78e782a7d7a6/srmgi-newsletter-sign-up?fbclid=IwAR3lV9HpMAKrpGqajxmxy11AZKPzZtxfQL7tx_otv4lMCQ6YeSSKKb0WJXY> >> As the year goes by, we should see the first SRM research papers to >> come from South America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, West Africa, and >> Southeast Asia. >> >> >> Andy >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "geoengineering" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to geoengi...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/61d7a535-01ec-41da-bcb4-5446aabbab42%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/61d7a535-01ec-41da-bcb4-5446aabbab42%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/76b02e31-a3c1-4a76-b0b9-92921a0ead62%40googlegroups.com.
