The interdisciplinary team is co-led by Phoebe Zarnetske, community ecologist and associate professor in Michigan State University's Department of Integrative Biology and the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior program, and ecologist Jessica Gurevitch, distinguished professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University.Ĭonversations between Gurevitch and climate scientist Alan Robock, distinguished professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, gave rise to the pioneering group, which is more aware than most that geoengineering Earth's atmosphere is more than just a science-fiction scenario. It is a strong reminder of the importance of the need for multi-disciplinary analysis of complex problems in environmental science." "I was unaware that modeling climate intervention was so advanced, and I think that climate modelers were unaware of the complexities of the ecological systems being affected. "Participating in this working group has been quite eye-opening for me," said co-author Peter Groffman, an ecosystem ecologist at the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. The group's seminal paper, "Potential ecological impacts of climate intervention by reflecting sunlight to cool Earth," was published in the most recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States ( PNAS). Should humans, whose fossil-fueled society is driving climate change, use technology to put the brakes on global warming?Įvery month since September 2019 the Climate Intervention Biology Working Group, a team of internationally recognized experts in climate science and ecology, has gathered remotely to bring science to bear on that question and the consequences of geoengineering a cooler Earth by reflecting a portion of the sun's radiation away from the planet - a climate intervention strategy known as solar radiation modification (SRM). Without a major shift in this climate trajectory, the future of life on Earth is in question. NEW YORK, AP- Nine of the hottest years in human history have occurred in the last decade. Mountain yellow-legged frog: Public Domain (10818525515).jpgĪll other images (Ecuador tropical forest and hummingbird, caribou, Madagascar dryland and radiated tortoise, Oregon rocky intertidal and tidepool, Caribbean Sea): Phoebe Zarnetske Image: From tundras to tropics to oceans, a new paper by the Climate Intervention Biology Working Group asks how Earth's ecosystems and inhabiting species will be impacted by climate intervention with stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI).
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