https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj6517
Social science research to inform solar geoengineering JOSEPH E. ALDY, TYLER FELGENHAUER, WILLIAM A. PIZER, MASSIMO TAVONI, MARIIA BELAIA, MARK E. BORSUK, ARUNABHA GHOSH, GARTH HEUTEL, DANIEL HEYEN, JOSHUA HORTON, DAVID KEITH, CHRISTINE MERK, JUAN MORENO-CRUZ, JESSE L. REYNOLDS, KATHARINE RICKE, WILFRIED RICKELS, SOHEIL SHAYEGH, WAKE SMITH, SIMONE TILMES, GERNOT WAGNER AND JONATHAN B. WIENER Abstract As the prospect of average global warming exceeding 1.5°C becomes increasingly likely, interest in supplementing mitigation and adaptation with solar geoengineering (SG) responses will almost certainly rise. For example stratospheric aerosol injection to cool the planet could offset some of the warming for a given accumulation of atmospheric greenhouse gases (*1* <https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj6517#pill-R1>). However, the physical and social science literature on SG remains modest compared with mitigation and adaptation. We outline three research themes for advancing policy-relevant social science related to SG: (i) SG costs, benefits, risks, and uncertainty; (ii) the political economy of SG deployment; and (iii) SG’s role in a climate strategy portfolio. -- 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/CAKSzgpbN6GLkqthazTt61qbBPTpJvULf8SJAZ4AROpUR-hrauQ%40mail.gmail.com.
