“Four tech takeaways from the climate town hall,” by James Temple, https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614274/four-tech-takeaways-from-the-climate-townhall/
Geoengineering’s public moment Yang would also earmark $800 million for research into geoengineering—the idea of cooling the planet by using various technologies to reflect away more of the sun’s heat. His plan mentions “launching giant foldable mirrors into space” as a possible emergency response. (See “What is geoengineering—and why should you care?<https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614079/what-is-geoengineering-and-why-should-you-care-climate-change-harvard/>”) Whether we can safely research geoengineering, let alone conduct it, is still hotly debated within academia. And it’s not remotely a mainstream idea in the US yet. But Yang said on stage that space mirrors (by the way, not the approach most academic researchers are focused on) should be part of the climate debate. While stressing that<https://grist.org/article/live-who-said-what-during-cnns-climate-crisis-town-hall/> geoengineering shouldn’t be the “main approach,” he added that “in a crisis, all solutions need to be on the table.” Surprisingly, the topic came up again later in the evening. Alan Robock, a Rutgers professor who has published a list<http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/Robock-2016-Earth's_Future.pdf> of risks of geoengineering, asked Booker what he thought of the idea. Booker, to his credit, simply said<https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cnn-climate-crisis-town-hall-democrats-sanders-warren-harris-biden-880176/> he didn’t know enough about it to take a firm position. -- Alan Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor Associate Editor, Reviews of Geophysics Department of Environmental Sciences Phone: +1-848-932-5751 Rutgers University E-mail: rob...@envsci.rutgers.edu<mailto:rob...@envsci.rutgers.edu> 14 College Farm Road http://people.envsci.rutgers.edu/robock New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551 USA ☮ http://twitter.com/AlanRobock -- 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/6f602b11-8827-7093-0e1b-c727bcb8124d%40envsci.rutgers.edu.
