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Solar Geoengineering can Mitigate Effects of Global Warming on Rainfed Crops
Written by AZoCleantechMay 21 2021
Solar geoengineering, which means releasing aerosols into the air to reflect solar light and cut down global warming, is not a complete solution for climate change but it might be one of many tools to control climate risks.
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The potential of solar geoengineering to decrease physical climate changes was investigated by a growing body of research. However, not much less is known about the potential effect of solar geoengineering on the ecosystem and, specifically, agriculture.
A study performed by the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has now discovered that solar geoengineering could be amazingly effective in mitigating some of the worst effects of global warming on crops.
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When the United States issued national stay-at-home guidelines in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, mobility across the country dropped significantly. New research from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) demonstrates that people may be inclined to change their behavior in response to national guidelines, more than state and local policies. When the next pandemic hits, we need to know what kind of policies are going to have the biggest impact on human behavior and health, said Marianna Linz, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering and of Earth and Planetary Sciences at SEAS and senior author of the paper. While specific, local policies based on community spread may make the most sense, we found that people seem to change their behavior more in response to national guidelines. This suggests that clear national guidelines, at least in the beginning, are going to have the biggest impact on publi
Solar geoengineering is not a fix-all for climate change but it could be one of several tools to manage climate risks. A growing body of research has explored the ability of solar geoengineering to reduce physical climate changes. But much less is known about how solar geoengineering could affect the ecosystem and, particularly, agriculture. Now, research finds that solar geoengineering may be surprisingly effective in alleviating some of the worst impacts of global warming on crops.
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