Partner content scientists say the global climate crisis continues to intensify and dealing with the situation requires increasingly innovative solutions.
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While governments struggle to set new policies, NGOs are finding innovative ideas using the available technology to meet these challenges. Supercomputing is one of the technologies that can drive progress and act as a path to solutions through climate modeling, data analysis and the application of artificial intelligence (AI). To learn more about how these technologies are being used to accelerate climate action, we spoke with Jean-François Lamarque, PhD, who serves as Chief Climate Scientist at SilverLining, an organization whose mission is to advance the safety of the world's people and natural systems in climate risks at short term (ie 10-30 years).
"SilverLining's mission is to accelerate scientific research to improve our understanding of near-term climate risks and potential interventions in the climate system to reduce them. This includes research on increasing the reflection of sunlight from clouds and particles in the atmosphere to cool climates, sometimes called "solar radiation modification," or SRM," explains Lamarque.
Under that umbrella, Lamarque says SilverLining is working with a community of scientists to investigate methods such as dispersing particles to reflect sunlight from the stratosphere, or "Stratospheric Aerosol Injection" and spreading sea salt fog into low clouds over the ocean to increase their reflection of sunlight or " Marine Cloud Brightening". SilverLining's Safe Climate Research Initiative is an effort to explore and evaluate these and other climate interventions to mitigate global warming.
