Welcome to our weekly round-up of SRM news and events.  

Highlights

Last chance to sign up for our Live Discussion: Making sense of extreme heat and solar geoengineering SRM360 (Jul 29)

Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public. (Politico, Jul 27) 

ICJ: What the world court’s landmark opinion means for climate change (Carbon Brief, Jul 25) 

Greene wants to ban ‘weather modification,’ but ignorance is the real crime (The Hill, Jul 22) 

Community

Join our Live Discussion: Making sense of extreme heat and solar geoengineering SRM360 (Jul 29)

AGU Wins Power of Associations Gold Award for Promoting Ethics in Climate Intervention AGU (Jul 23)

Webinar: Restoring a Healthy Climate — Nature-Inspired Interventions to Reduce Global Warming and Restore Hope HPAC (Aug 10)

Watch or Listen

Has Trump Doomed Progress on Climate Change? The Ezra Klein Show (Jul 25) 

Sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson on AI, climate change, and the future of governance CFG (Jul 23) 

In Case of Emergency Break Glass The Aspen Institute (Jul 22) 

Reduce, remove, reflect: the new three Rs of climate action Centre for Climate Repair (Jul 21) 

Why communicate about solar geoengineering? New paper on public attitudes Centre for Climate Repair (Jul 21) 

SRM in the Media

Image Source: Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images in Politico

Top Stories

The sticky study of sunblocking a warming planet</> Politico (Heather Richards, Jul 28)

Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public. Politico (Corbin Hiar, Jul 27) 

California researchers experiment to limit sunlight thwarted by officials Daily Express US (Peter Rubinstein, Jul 27) 

The Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef NY Times (Ferris Jabr, Jul 25) 

Greene wants to ban ‘weather modification,’ but ignorance is the real crime The Hill (Jedidah Isler, Jul 22) 

Climate in the Media

ICJ: What the world court’s landmark opinion means for climate change Carbon Brief (Jul 25) 

‘We were heard’: the Pacific students who took their climate fight to the ICJ – and won The Guardian (Sera Sefeti, Jul 25) 

Three things to watch after the big UN climate ruling Axios (Ben Geman, Jul 24) 

‘Unprecedented’ Ocean Heat Waves in 2023 Suggest Climate Tipping Point Bloomberg (Danielle Bochove, Jul 24) 

In Academia

Articles

Climate Response of the Seven Homogeneous Monsoon Rainfall Regions of India Using the SOLAR Geoengineering Simulation Datasets Sagar, A. K., & Chakraborty, A. (Aerosol Science and Engineering, Jul 26)

Potential Impact of Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering on Sea Surface Salinity in the Eastern Tropical Atlantic Ocean Agada, J. H., Da-Allada, C. Y., Bocco-Koube, M., Baloïtcha, E., Ayissi, F. F. B. K., Mekonou-Tamko, L. G., Tilmes, S., & Worou, L. O. (Environmental Research Climate, Jul 21)

Book Chapter

Solar Geoengineering as a Case-Study of Use, Non-use, and (Research) Governance Oomen, J. (Non-use Measures for Global Goods and Commons in International Law, Brill, Jul 11)

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