* did not cause harm*

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 2:27 PM Ron Baiman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi David et al.,
>
> Not particularly anxious to wade into another debate over these issues but
> I think it's important to set (at least my understanding of) the record
> straight.
>
> In its latest Nevada launches Make Sunsets gave advanced notice and
> received permission (https://makesunsets.com/blogs/news/3-launches), and
> I believe Andrew did the same with his SATAN balloon launching experiment
> in the UK.  I'm not a legal expert, but I believe that in both countries
> (certainly in the US) people are not (except in very special cases  to
> which this does not apply) for their intentions but only on the basis of
> their actions.
>
>  I understand that both of these were politically provocative actions, but
> they did cause harm to anyone. So the issue is political. Do these kinds of
> efforts serve to "move the ball forward or backward"?  As I've stated in
> other threads,  I believe that Make Sunsets has moved it forward and (with
> appropriate public regulation and monitoring and possibly using other
> aerosols) could potentially morph into an effective private direct climate
> cooling company.
>
> I don't know the details of Andrew's effort, and agree that the SATAN
> moniker was unfortunate, but I tend to believe that anything that we can do
> to spur awareness, discussion, and debate over the urgent (and as I think
> most of us believe existential for human civilization) need for direct
> climate cooling now (or as soon as reasonably prudently possible depending
> on method (
> https://pdfhost.io/v/kUvEpsGdb_Understanding_the_Urgent_Need_for_Direct_Climate_Cooling_0209233
> ) is generally a positive contribution to our epochal challenge of a scope
> and within a expedited timeline never before encountered in human history.
>
> Best,
> Ron
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 12:55 PM 'Hawkins, David' via geoengineering <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Of course it is perverse that our societies have failed to act against
>> releases of GHGs but that is not a persuasive argument for those who
>> believe there should be some form of advance review of outdoor SRM
>> experiments.  Like it or not, the need for social license for such
>> experiments appears to have become a reality.  And additional "unlicensed"
>> experiments will increase the calls for some form of review.  In my view it
>> is better for the research community to engage on formulating a workable,
>> efficient review procedure.  That will require conversations beyond the
>> research community.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> on behalf of Stephen Salter <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Friday, March 3, 2023 12:35 PM
>> *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]>; Jessica
>> Gurevitch <[email protected]>
>> *Cc:* Oliver Morton <[email protected]>; geoengineering <
>> [email protected]>
>> *Subject:* RE: [geo] SATAN
>>
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I ask as an ignorant non-legal person, please could one of the many
>> expert ethicists and political decision makers help me understand the
>> difference between the release of very small quantities of medicinally
>> benign material aimed at helping all species intended to advance knowledge
>> which can easily be stopped as against the release of very much larger
>> quantities of materials, already known to be dangerous, but profitable to a
>> small number of very rich people.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> *On Behalf Of *Andrew Lockley
>> *Sent:* 03 March 2023 15:54
>> *To:* Jessica Gurevitch <[email protected]>
>> *Cc:* Oliver Morton <[email protected]>; geoengineering <
>> [email protected]>
>> *Subject:* Re: [geo] SATAN
>>
>>
>>
>> *This email was sent to you by someone outside the University.*
>>
>> You should only click on links or attachments if you are certain that the
>> email is genuine and the content is safe.
>>
>> Jessica I've taken on board your point that the SATAN branding (while
>> perhaps usefully provocational in the UK) is more literally believed
>> elsewhere - and therefore probably isn't appropriately cross cultural. I
>> remember a similar problem with mitigation being described as a "Manhatten
>> project", which outraged the Japanese delegates at the conference where it
>> was discussed. But it's too late to change this branding now, partly due to
>> the leak.
>>
>>
>>
>> However, I take issue with "rogue". I'm not a rogue. I WANT regulation. I
>> am INVITING regulation (or provoking it, depending on how you consider my
>> actions). I am saying here (as I have said before) that I'll submit to any
>> appropriate vetting body - one that's knowledgeable, fair, and respects any
>> pledges of confidentiality and due process it offers.
>>
>>
>>
>> Without such a regulatory body, how am I supposed to know what constrains
>> I should observe? I can't be expected to predict what might trigger
>> individual list members to denounce me. Nor should I rely on government
>> agencies lacking specialist expertise and jurisdiction. Nor on universities
>> committees more eager to manage their institutional reputations than to
>> govern science.
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023, 15:38 Jessica Gurevitch, <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Weighing in here on this very interesting issue. I agree with Oliver
>> Morton that there is real value here, but I see the value as cautionary. In
>> reality, Andrew Lockley's experiment is not going to change the climate,
>> but it is a rogue implementation of a climate intervention. This makes an
>> emphatic point, as does the Mexico 'sunset' experiment, that the people
>> working on International Governance have no time to spare, because the
>> ultra-billionaires who might be tempted to do something similar at a larger
>> scale, and care not a whit what anyone says or thinks, could also initiate
>> interventions. As Andrew said, this was not illegal...at this point. I
>> think these two examples can add urgency to the argument that Governance
>> must proceed now, quickly.
>>
>> As for the name that Andrew used for his project...it is ill-informed, as
>> is the snarky justification in this post. There are many people whose
>> belief system considers Satan a real entity, and it is disrespectful to
>> treat these widely held beliefs trivially. If you have any claim to value
>> diversity, inclusion and belonging, one doesn't ridicule or trivialize
>> deeply held cultural beliefs, in my opinion. Even if you yourself don't
>> believe that Satan is a real entity or force, Satan is nevertheless a
>> widely recognized symbol of evil, and evil is neither trivial nor a joke.
>> Unfortunately, as we see in Ukraine and elsewhere, there is very real evil
>> in the world, and trivializing it is arrogant and dangerously
>> mistaken, in my view.
>>
>> Jessica Gurevitch, Distinguished Professor and Head of Forestry and
>> Natural Resources, Purdue University
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 9:07 AM Andrew Lockley <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I'm inclined to take what Oliver says as gospel. Instead of denouncing me
>> for summoning SATAN, perhaps I can invite the congregation of the list to
>> consider an alternative?
>>
>>
>>
>> It may be possible for some of the high priests of geoengineering to
>> convene an inquisition, for vetting proposed experiments for herecy. A sort
>> of pearly stage-gate, if you will.
>>
>>
>>
>> I would be happy to confess my impure experimental thoughts, if I could
>> be assured that this would remain within the confessional.
>>
>>
>>
>> If my experiment's soul was weighed in the balance and found wanting, I
>> would be perfectly willing to see it cast into the abyss.
>>
>>
>>
>> Approval from such a conclave would ensure that I could go ahead knowing
>> I was doing only righteous deeds.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim, Simone, Doug, David M., Oliver, Alan, Wake, Pete - will you (and
>> others) answer this higher calling? I would be happy to go through
>> purgatory before accepting your eternal judgement.
>>
>>
>>
>> A
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023, 11:09 'Oliver Morton' via geoengineering, <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I am not condoning Andrew's action, but I am not convinced by Doug's
>> argument that its results are necessarily harmful (though Doug says
>> "non-zero", I think it is clear that he expects a negative result). If this
>> leads to a fuller, open discussion of what sort of experiments are and
>> aren't appropriate, and of what if any legitimate means there might be for
>> discouraging the inappropriate, I think the community could find itself in
>> a better place, and with better understood courses for future action. I
>> think that requires constructive debate about pre-registration, applicable
>> forms of suasion that are in line with liberal assumptions about research
>> autonomy, national v international positions and more.
>>
>>
>>
>> It seems to me that if lots of serious people treat it as enough to
>> simply denounce Andrew, they may, by so doing, empower the backlash Doug
>> fears. An even tempered discussion about what was wrong with this and what
>> should have been done differently might help more by defining what sort of
>> envelope there should be around "respectable" experiments and what
>> appropriate measures individuals, the community and authorities might take
>> to discourage things outside that envelope.
>>
>>
>>
>> I now intend to go and read Andrew's paper
>>
>>
>>
>> o
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, 2 March 2023 at 14:58:26 UTC Andrew Lockley wrote:
>>
>> Doug,
>>
>>
>>
>> I'll answer your points in turn below. I've removed Dan from the cc list
>> as he wished to withdraw from the discussion.
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2 Mar 2023, 14:30 Douglas MacMartin, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Andrew,
>>
>>
>>
>> I second Dan, and your juvenile response to him regarding your choice of
>> project name should leave no doubt on anyone’s part that you don’t take
>> this subject seriously.
>>
>> What specifically was juvenile about my response to Dan?
>>
>>
>>
>> How is a decade of unpaid work not serious?
>>
>>
>>
>> Is the project name sillier or less descriptive than these examples -
>> some of which are now scientifically standard?
>> https://www.businessinsider.com/15-fantastic-scientific-acronyms-2014-1
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.businessinsider.com/15-fantastic-scientific-acronyms-2014-1__;!!NO21cQ!D8T7I_KwM9_S_ScC7Vl6gqT8FyNxyHnwU3M0HscawlZ7tL9H3zo2f-H3gUGF3iSuGBCdOW3w94wMyTYB$>
>>
>>
>>
>> Had you actually been paying attention to the field as you claim to have
>> been, you would be aware that there are broad public concerns, that trust
>> is paramount, and that transparency is essential, as has been consistently
>> recommended in every list of recommendations ever written on the subject –
>> and your excuse of hiding while waiting for peer review is pathetic given
>> that what’s needed would be transparency in advance about the existence of
>> the test and the purpose, not about results.
>>
>> I submitted a paper to multiple journals describing the airframe test and
>> it was never even sent for review. I can't force publication or review of a
>> paper. Other than this strategy, when and how do you think I should have
>> announced the experiment?
>>
>>
>>
>> What do you think that the consequences of any prior announcement would
>> have been?
>>
>>
>>
>> How well has prior consultation worked, when it was tried previously?
>>
>>
>>
>> You also know that your test has zero engineering value to the field
>> since there’s no viable pathway to getting meaningful radiative forcing
>> through balloons anyway.
>>
>> The purpose of the test was not to get "meaningful radiative forcing". It
>> was to demonstrate an inexpensive, multi role aircraft that could be used
>> for small scale experiments - much as scopex was intended, but with
>> cheaper, expendable and swarming aircraft.
>>
>>
>>
>> I certainly do not know that balloons cannot be made to work at scale. I
>> have already got designs in mind that may overcome the limitations revealed
>> by this test.
>>
>> There are certainly plausible engineering tests that could have value,
>> but IMO this isn’t one of them.
>>
>> You've not had sight of the paper yet, AFAIK. I always value your
>> opinions, but recognise these may differ from my own, and that they may
>> change as more information becomes available.
>>
>>
>>
>> So cost-benefit analysis… the benefit of your “test” is zero, but the
>> cost, in terms of potentially setting back perceptions of the field and
>> engendering a backlash against actual real legitimate science, is
>> non-zero.  Hopefully people will appropriately ignore this stunt and
>> recognize that it is neither directly damaging nor actually relevant to
>> SAI.
>>
>> I've described the relevance above.
>>
>>
>>
>> doug
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On
>> Behalf Of *Andrew Lockley
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 2, 2023 12:58 AM
>> *To:* Daniele Visioni <[email protected]>
>> *Cc:* geoengineering <[email protected]>
>> *Subject:* Re: [geo] SATAN
>>
>>
>>
>> Dan,
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for raising your concerns, although an initial private discussion
>> would have been preferred.
>>
>>
>>
>> I believe you have had sight of the abstract a few weeks ago, via the
>> GeoMIP conference submission. It's therefore surprising that you've chosen
>> now to raise this issue. Did you have any concerns with the abstract
>> specifically? If so, I would have welcomed your direct comments at the
>> time. I can also make a preprint copy available to you personally, if you
>> believe you may have comments that would help with revising the manuscript.
>>
>>
>>
>> As you were one of perhaps a very small group access to the abstract,
>> perhaps you could detail the steps you took to secure work that was of
>> interest to the media? I am sure I'm not the only one who's mindful of
>> leaks in the academic process. It would be nice to be able to submit
>> abstracts and drafts without worrying they will be illicitly distributed.
>>
>>
>>
>> I think you may be implying concerns about the experiment name. Could you
>> perhaps describe why "stratospheric aerosol transport and nucleation" was
>> an unsuitable name for an experiment designed to test craft for inducing,
>> and later monitoring, stratospheric aerosol transport and nucleation? If
>> your concerns are with some other aspect of the work, perhaps you could
>> explain your views on what should or should not have been done? FWIW, I've
>> never challenged your right to conduct research, nor anyone else's. If you
>> choose to challenge mine, a proper discussion of your reasoning would be
>> good to hear.
>>
>>
>>
>> Finally, I'm sorry that you regard me as "unserious". The facts might
>> cause others to reach a different conclusion. I've been active in the
>> geoengineering community for over a decade (I think you would have been
>> high school, when I started). Despite never being paid, I've built up an
>> h-index of 7. Simultaneously, I've supported this list, the CDR group, the
>> @geoengineering1 twitter handle, and latterly the Reviewer 2 Does
>> Geoengineering podcast - generally spending much more time supporting
>> other's careers than in furthering my own.
>>
>>
>>
>> You are of course free to set up better community resource, if you think
>> mine are "unserious".
>>
>>
>>
>> As a final note, you may wish to note that I've got a paper submitted
>> after revisions about the legitimacy of private geoengineering. That may
>> prompt a calmer discussion of views on the matter.
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew Lockley
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2 Mar 2023, 08:18 Daniele Visioni, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Glad you had fun, Andrew.
>>
>>
>>
>> For me, this is clear proof of your unseriousness and childishness - not
>> to mention the overall threat you pose to this research field as a whole
>> towards any kind of legitimacy.
>>
>>
>>
>> I personally don’t want to be associated even remotely with anything you
>> do now or in the future, so this will be my last message on this group
>> before I unsubscribe.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2 Mar 2023, at 09:07, Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>> https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/01/1069283/researchers-launched-a-solar-geoengineering-test-flight-in-the-uk-last-fall/
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/01/1069283/researchers-launched-a-solar-geoengineering-test-flight-in-the-uk-last-fall/__;!!NO21cQ!D8T7I_KwM9_S_ScC7Vl6gqT8FyNxyHnwU3M0HscawlZ7tL9H3zo2f-H3gUGF3iSuGBCdOW3w997G4zdI$>
>>
>>
>>
>> Researchers launched a solar geoengineering test flight in the UK last
>> fall
>>
>> The experiment, largely designed to test equipment, took place despite
>> deep concerns about the technology.
>>
>>
>>
>> By James Temple archive page
>>
>> March 1, 2023
>>
>> sun shines through the clouds
>>
>> GETTY IMAGES
>>
>> Last September, researchers in the UK launched a high-altitude weather
>> balloon that released a few hundred grams of sulfur dioxide into the
>> stratosphere, a potential scientific first in the solar geoengineering
>> field, MIT Technology Review has learned.
>>
>>
>>
>> Solar geoengineering is the theory that humans can ease global warming by
>> deliberately reflecting more sunlight into space. One possible means is
>> spraying sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere, in an effort to mimic a
>> cooling effect that occurs in the aftermath of major volcanic eruptions. It
>> is highly controversial given concerns about potential unintended
>> consequences, among other issues.
>>
>>
>>
>> The UK effort was not a test of or experiment in geoengineering itself.
>> Rather, the stated goal was to evaluate a low-cost, controllable,
>> recoverable balloon system, according to details obtained by MIT Technology
>> Review. Such a system could be used for small-scale geoengineering research
>> efforts, or perhaps for an eventual distributed geoengineering deployment
>> involving numerous balloons.
>>
>>
>>
>> The “Stratospheric Aerosol Transport and Nucleation,” or SATAN, balloon
>> systems were made from stock and hobbyist components, with hardware costs
>> that ran less than $1,000.
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew Lockley, a research associate at University College London, led
>> the effort last fall, working with European Astrotech, a company that does
>> engineering and design work for high-altitude balloons and space propulsion
>> systems.
>>
>>
>>
>> They have submitted a paper detailing the results of the effort to a
>> journal, but it has not yet been published. Lockley largely declined to
>> discuss the matter ahead of publication, but he did express frustration
>> that the scientific process was being circumvented.
>>
>>
>>
>> “Leakers be damned!” he wrote in an email to MIT Technology Review. “I’ve
>> tried to follow the straight and narrow path and wait for the judgment day
>> of peer review, but it appears a colleague has been led astray by
>> diabolical temptation.”
>>
>>
>>
>> “There’s a special place in hell for those who leak their colleagues’
>> work, tormented by ever burning sulfur,” he added. “But I have taken a vow
>> of silence, and can only confirm that our craft ascended to the heavens, as
>> intended. I only hope that this test plays a small part in offering mankind
>> salvation from the hellish inferno of climate change.”
>>
>>
>>
>> European Astrotech didn’t immediately respond to an inquiry.
>>
>>
>>
>> Test flights
>>
>> The system included a lofting balloon filled with helium or hydrogen,
>> which carried along a basketball-size payload balloon that contained some
>> amount of sulfur dioxide. An earlier flight in October 2021 likely also
>> released a trace amount of the gas in the stratosphere, although that could
>> not be confirmed and the system was not recovered owing to a problem with
>> onboard instruments, according to details obtained by MIT Technology
>> Review.
>>
>>
>>
>> During the second flight, in September of 2022, the smaller payload
>> balloon burst about 15 miles above Earth as it expanded amid declining
>> atmospheric pressure, releasing around 400 grams of the gas into the
>> stratosphere. That may be the first time that a measured gas payload was
>> verifiably released in the stratosphere as part of a geoengineering-related
>> effort. Both balloons were released from a launch site in Buckinghamshire,
>> in southeast England.
>>
>>
>>
>> There have, however, been other attempts to place sulfur dioxide in the
>> stratosphere. Last April, the cofounder of a company called Make Sunsets
>> says, he attempted to release it during a pair of rudimentary balloon
>> flights from Mexico, as MIT Technology Review previously reported late last
>> year. Whether it succeeded is also unclear, as the aircraft didn’t include
>> equipment that could confirm where the balloons burst, said Luke Iseman,
>> the chief executive of the startup.
>>
>>
>>
>> The Make Sunsets effort was widely denounced by researchers in
>> geoengineering, critics of the field, and the government of Mexico, which
>> announced plans to prohibit and even halt any solar geoengineering
>> experiments within the country. Among other issues, observers were
>> concerned that the launches had moved ahead without prior notice or
>> approval, and because the company ultimately seeks to monetize such
>> launches by selling “cooling credits.”
>>
>>
>>
>> Lockley’s experiment was distinct in a variety of ways. It wasn’t a
>> commercial enterprise. The balloons were equipped with instruments that
>> could track flight paths and monitor environmental conditions. They also
>> included a number of safety features designed to prevent the balloons from
>> landing while still filled with potentially dangerous gases. In addition,
>> the group obtained flight permits and submitted what’s known as a “notice
>> to airmen” to aviation authorities, which ensure that aircraft pilots are
>> aware of flight plans in the area.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Some observers said that the amount of sulfur dioxide released during the
>> UK project doesn’t present any real environmental dangers. Indeed,
>> commercial flights routinely produce many times as much.
>>
>>
>>
>> “This is an innocuous write-up or an innocuous experiment, in the direct
>> sense,” says Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia University and
>> the author of Geoengineering: The Gamble.
>>
>>
>>
>> Public engagement
>>
>> But some are still concerned that the effort proceeded without broader
>> public disclosures and engagement in advance.
>>
>>
>>
>> Shuchi Talati, a scholar in residence at American University who is
>> forming a nonprofit focused on governance and justice issues in solar
>> geoengineering, fears there’s a growing disregard in this space for the
>> importance of research governance. That refers to a set of norms and
>> standards concerning scientific merit and oversight of proposed
>> experiments, as well as public transparency and engagement.
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> “I’m really concerned about what the intent here is,” she says. “There’s
>> a sense of them having the moral high ground, that there’s a moral
>> imperative to do this work.”
>>
>>
>>
>> But, she says, forging ahead in this way is ethically dubious, because it
>> takes away any opportunity for others to weigh in on the scientific value,
>> risks, or appropriateness of the efforts before they happen. Talati adds
>> that part of the intent seems to be provocation, perhaps to help break what
>> some perceive to be a logjam or taboo holding up stratospheric research in
>> this area.
>>
>>
>>
>> David Keith, a Harvard scientist who has been working for years to move
>> ahead with a small-scale stratospheric balloon research program, questioned
>> both the scientific value of. the effort and its usefulness in terms of
>> technology development. In an email, he noted that the researchers didn’t
>> attempt to monitor any effect it had on atmospheric chemistry. Nor did the
>> work present a feasible “pathway to use this method for deployment at
>> reasonable cost,” he wrote.
>>
>>
>>
>> “So in some deep sense, while it’s much more thought out, much less
>> cowboy than Make Sunsets, I see it [as] similar,” Keith said.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> When asked if being provocative might have been a partial goal of the
>> effort, Keith said: “You don’t call something SATAN if you’re playing it
>> straight.”
>>
>>
>>
>> Lockley stressed that the effort was “an engineering proof-of-concept
>> test, not an environmentally perturbative experiment,” and that they
>> obtained the standard approvals for such flights.
>>
>>
>>
>> “I’m unaware of any prior approval process which should have been
>> followed but was not,” he wrote in an email. “A review body may be useful,
>> if it was able to provide good-faith and practical feedback on similar
>> low-impact experimental proposals in future.”
>>
>>
>>
>> Moral hazards and slippery slopes
>>
>> There are a variety of concerns about deploying solar geoengineering,
>> including the danger that carrying it out on large scales could have
>> negative environmental side effects as well as uneven impacts across
>> various regions. Some fear that even discussing it creates a moral hazard,
>> undermining the urgency to address the root causes of climate change, or
>> that researching it sets up a slippery slope that increases the chances
>> we’ll one day put it to use.
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> But proponents of research say it’s crucial to improve our basic
>> understanding of what such interventions would do, how we might carry them
>> out, and what risks they could pose, for the simple fact that it’s possible
>> that they could meaningfully reduce the dangers of climate change and save
>> lives. To date, though, not much has happened outside of labs, computer
>> models and a handful of efforts in the lower atmosphere.
>>
>>
>>
>> Several earlier proposals to carry out research in the stratosphere have
>> been halted or repeatedly delayed amid public criticism. Those include the
>> SPICE experiment, which would have tested a balloon-and-hose stratospheric
>> delivery system but was halted in 2012, as well as the Harvard proposal
>> that Keith is involved with, known as SCoPEx.
>>
>>
>>
>> The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has begun conducting
>> stratospheric flights, using balloons and more recently jets, as part of a
>> growing US geoengineering research program. But its stated intention is to
>> conduct baseline measurements, not to release any materials. One hope
>> behind the efforts is to create an early detection system that could be
>> triggered if a nation or rogue actor moves forward with a large-scale
>> effort.
>>
>>
>>
>> The challenges in conducting even basic, small-scale outdoor experiments
>> that carry minimal environmental risks has increasingly frustrated some in
>> the field—and left at least a few people willing to move forward without
>> broad public disclosures in advance, perhaps in part to force the issue.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Scientists routinely conduct outdoor experiments without seeking up-front
>> public permission, when doing so doesn’t present clear dangers to public
>> health or the environment, and reveal their studies and peer-reviewed
>> results in journals only after the fact.
>>
>>
>>
>> The question is whether solar geoengineering research demands greater
>> up-front notification, not because the experiments themselves are
>> necessarily dangerous but because of the deep concerns about even
>> discussing and researching the technology.
>>
>>
>>
>> Columbia’s Wagner says the field should err on the side of transparency.
>> But he also says it’s important to strike the right balance between how
>> much researchers must reveal in advance, how easily carefully designed
>> projects can be blocked, and how much support major research institutions
>> provide for an important area of inquiry.
>>
>>
>>
>> “This sort of thing is a direct response to other institutions’
>> reluctance to proceed with even seemingly innocuous research,” he says.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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