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It is permissible to research solar radiation management? It is permissible to research solar radiation management?

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It is permissible to research solar radiation management? - PPT Presentation

David Morrow Faculty Fellow American UniversityFCEA Visiting Fellow George Mason University morrowamericanedu The Core Argument for Researching SRM There is a serious risk that mitigation and adaptation efforts will not adequately reduce climate risk ID: 654350

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It is permissible to research solar radiation management?

David Morrow

Faculty Fellow, American University/FCEA

Visiting Fellow, George Mason University

morrow@american.eduSlide2
Slide3

The “Core Argument” for Researching SRM

There is a serious risk that mitigation and adaptation efforts will not adequately reduce climate risk.

SRM might have the potential, if used wisely, to reduce climate risk in a quick, cost-effective, and morally acceptable way.

Making wise decisions about the use (or non-use) of SRM requires us to gather much more information about it, which takes time.

4. We should do further research into SRM.

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Bob the LomondSlide4

The Trade-Off Argument

The expected level of mitigation effort is inversely related to the intensity of SRM research.

Within the expected range of mitigation, more mitigation is better than less mitigation, other things being equal.

3. SRM research will make things worse, with the problem intensifying as SRM research intensifies.

4. We should not do further research into SRM.

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Slide5

The Slippery Slope Argument

If some kinds of further SRM research are done, they will lead to (some kind of) deployment that would be very bad.

2. Those kinds of further SRM research should not be done.

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dbang

Which research?

Deployed in what way?

How?Slide6

The

Ungovernability

Argument

SRM deployment would have to be governed either by the UN, by a coalition of states, or by a single state acting unilaterally.

The UN could not effectively govern SRM because it could never agree on deployment.Any effective coalition would be illegitimate.

Unilateral deployment would be illegitimate.

5. No governance regime could be both effective and legitimate.

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The Inherent Immorality Argument

We know

now

that deploying SRM would be inherently immoral.

We should not even bother to investigate doing something that we know would be immoral.3. We should not research SRM.

“Fall of Icarus,” Peter Jacob

Gowy

Why?Slide8

Conclusions

Because the arguments against it do not outweigh the “core argument,”

f

urther research into SRM, including limited outdoor research, is permissible.

But those arguments remind us that we should:Focus on certain

kinds

of deployment

Take steps to reduce trade-offs

Make regulatory capture difficult

Build in international governance early

Photo:

Thomas Hawk