National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) said on March 25.
Solar geoengineering involves increasing the amount of radiation that gets reflected back to Earth to cool the planet. It is a form of geoengineering or the deliberate modification of Earth’s natural systems to tackle climate issues.
In a new report, a panel of scientists recommended allotting $40 million a year to ramp up solar geoengineering research. In particular, it suggested looking into spraying reflective aerosols into the atmosphere, thinning high-altitude clouds and brightening low-altitude marine clouds.
“Climate engineering is a really dumb idea, but it might not be as dumb as doing nothing at this point or continuing to do what we’ve been doing,” Lynn Russell, an atmospheric chemist at the
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Massachusetts GDP growth outpaced nation in fourth quarter of 2020 but sharp downturn seen from third quarter, UMass researchers say
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
The state’s real gross domestic product growth outpaced the nation’s in the last three months of 2020, according to research released last week in a MassBenchmarks report but Massachusetts’ 7.9% annual rate represented a significant downturn from the third quarter.
For the third quarter in 2020, the state posted a 33.1% annual rate, while the rate for the U.S. GDP was 33.4%. The U.S. annualized rate was 4% in the year’s final quarter, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.