Ken, Here's one suggestion:
As a general rule, I would favor SRM over CDR for short-term funding, for a couple of reasons. First, the technical attributes of SRM mean that it would be called upon if there was a need for immediate action - I think CDR has to be viewed as a medium- to long-term strategy. Second, and related, as currently conceived, the deployment of CDR techniques will depend to a great extent on the policy context, in particular the existence of mandatory and robust carbon markets - as we are all aware, these are not likely to develop in the near future. Given this, I would propose splitting funding three ways: - $3.3m for general modeling efforts, tailored to meet needs specific to geoengineering research - this support would benefit both SRM and CDR - $3.3m for stratospheric aerosols - perhaps targeting key issues like variable aerosol effectiveness (nanoparticles?) - good preliminary work exists on delivery systems - $3.3m for marine cloud brightening, probably focused on spray nozzles This rough distribution would spread the wealth in a way that supports basic research while honing in on key technical challenges that must be addressed to mitigate the risk of a climate emergency. Josh Horton On Apr 18, 11:08 am, Ken Caldeira <kcalde...@carnegie.stanford.edu> wrote: > Folks, > > There is some discussion in DC about making some small amount of public > funds available to support SRM and CDR research. > > In today's funding climate, it is much more likely that someone might be > given authority to re-allocate existing budgets than that they would > actually be given significantly more money for this effort. Thus, the modest > scale. > > If you were doing strategic planning for a US federal agency, and you were > told that you had a budget of $10 million per year and that you should > maximize the amount of climate risk reduction obtainable with that $10 > million, what would you allocate it to and why? > > Best, > > Ken > > ___________________________________________________ > Ken Caldeira > > Carnegie Institution Dept of Global Ecology > 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA > +1 650 704 7212 > kcalde...@carnegie.stanford.eduhttp://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab @kencaldeira -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
