Word of the YouTube video came from a comment posted by Alvia Gaskill on the rapidly growing, and ever busier, GoogleGroups e-mail chain on geo-engineering, as this kind of climate intervention has generally been called.
In a detailed review of climate intervention technologies published in February, The National Academies of Sciences described direct air capture as "an immature technology" and called on the government to invest in research "to improve methods of carbon dioxide removal and disposal at scales that would have a significant global climate impact".
In contrast, albedo engineering — or "climate intervention," as some scientists now prefer to call it — is a far more ethically fraught option that might be deployed only if we get into a climate emergency and need to cool the earth in a hurry.
From the original and now highly controversial "geoengineering" term to a replacement that turned out to be no better -- "climate engineering," the current moniker is the evocative "climate intervention," as though the climate has a problem which only humans can fix.
The possibility of geoengineering or, as a report earlier this year from the US National Academy of Sciences rebadged it, "climate intervention", began as a cold war techno-fancy.
Nonetheless, scientists worry that if methane emissions from the Arctic increase as rapidly as some of the data now suggest, climate intervention isn't going to be an option.
Given that the CIA is a major sponsor of the recently released US National Academy of Sciences NASS) reports on geoengineering (which they have renamed "climate intervention"), the question arises as to the possible interest of the CIA in global climate control.
Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration (National Academies Press, 2015).
The other proposed climate intervention is the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
This association between occupational heat stress and worse health needs more public health attention and further development on occupational health interventions as climate change increases Thailand's temperatures.
These traditional agricultural systems also represent models of sustainable agricultural production and, in some cases, are recognized as best practices that can be applied as climate change adaptation and mitigation interventions.
