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Quick takes on cutting-edge, peer-reviewed research advancing our understanding of the atmosphere and Earth system, from the science team at SilverLining.
005 | The Hidden Cost of Cleaner Air? Earth System Warming
📘 Summary of: "Reduced Aerosol Pollution Diminished Cloud Reflectivity Over the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific" by Knut von Salzen, Ayodeji Akingunola, Jason N. S. Cole, Ruth A. R. Digby, Sarah J. Doherty, Luke Fraser-Leach, Edward Gryspeerdt, Michael Sigmond and Robert Wood.
004 | Regulating the Sky: How the Ozone Regime Could Govern Stratospheric Aerosols
📘 Summary of: "Rockets, Satellites, and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection: Regulating Human Impacts on Stratospheric Aerosols Under the Ozone Regime" from Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, Volume 67, 2025 by Daniel Bodansky and Nicolás Esguerra.
003 | The Atmosphere’s Hidden Rules: Why Stratospheric Injection Strategy Matters
📘 Summary of: "Identifying Climate Impacts From Different Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Strategies in UKESM1" from Earth's Future, Volume 12 - 2024 by Alice F. Wells, Matthew Henry, Ewa M. Bednarz, Douglas G. MacMartin, Andy Jones, Mohit Dalvi, James M. Haywood
002 | The Offset Problem: Why Scientists Say Cooling Credits Don't Add Up
📘 Summary of: "'Cooling Credits' Are Not a Viable Climate Solution" from Climatic Change Volume 176 - 2023 by Michael Diamond, Kelly Wanser and Olivier Boucher.
001 | Standardizing the Science: How Researchers Created a Common Framework for Evaluating Marine Cloud Brightening
📘 Summary of: "A protocol for model intercomparison of impacts of marine cloud brightening climate intervention" from Geoscientific Model Development, Volume 17 - 2024, by Philip Rasch, Haruki Hirasawa, Mingxuan Wu, Sarah Doherty, Robert Wood, Hailong Wang, Andy Jones, Jim Haywood, and Hansi Singh, PhD.