Can Solar Geoengineering Limit Rainfall Extremes?

April 2, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

Halving global warming with solar geoengineering could ‘offset tropical storm risk’
Engineering the climate to reflect away sunlight could halve global warming and offset the risk of increases in tropical storms, new research suggests.

Carbon Brief spoke with Dr Pete Irvine, who led the study, about his findings here.

Prof Jonathan Bamber on ‘Tipping Points’ for Greenland and Antarctic Glaciers

March 23, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

The Carbon Brief interview with Prof. Jonathan Bamber, professor of glaciology at the University of Bristol and the current president of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).

Music credit: Into Infinity artists Unrecognisable Now, Naohito Uchiyama, Languis (CC BY-NC 3.0 US).

“Once that [the surface mass balance] becomes negative, the ice sheet is on its way out. That’s one of the thresholds.”
–Prof. Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol