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Richard Parry-Jones improved Ford’s cars and engineers – Automotive News

He died April 16 in a tractor accident on his farm in Wales at age 69.

"I worked with Richard for many years on developing Ford 'DNA metrics' to characterize everything from how the steering should feel, to the comfort of the seats and the cupholder design!" Joe Bakaj, Ford's former vice president of product development in Europe, told me.

The 1993 Ford Mondeo versions of which were sold in North America as the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique was Ford's first "world car." Handsome and praised for its fluid handling, stylish interior and superior quality, the Mondeo won a trophy case full of awards. It ushered in a new era for Ford under RPJ that later saw the Ka, Puma, Focus and others generate strong sales.

"I had never met the previous chief engineer of vehicle engineering, who was a fairly aloof old-school manager," Bakaj said. "That changed rapidly when Richard came on board. He would often turn up unannounced at my desk and ask me questions about [noise, vibration and harshness] and talk about how the Mondeo program was going."

No chief engineer does everything in a car company, despite often getting full credit. One of RPJ's greatest strengths was recognizing talented engineers and nurturing their careers. Ford spokesman Said Deep said many of today's senior executive engineers, including Hau Thai-Tang, chief product platform and operations officer, worked under and learned from RPJ.

"Richard was the engineer's engineer," said a former colleague. "He was not only skilled at developing the world's best vehicles, but he was also passionate about developing the world's best engineers. He took mentoring the next generation very seriously, and so many automotive leaders today are in his debt."

RPJ retired from Ford in 2007, but he never really stopped working. He served on numerous corporate boards, including that of Aston Martin.

Almost a decade ago, RPJ foresaw the move to battery-electric vehicles and said in a speech: "The oil age isn't going to end because we've run out of oil for the same reason that the Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones. The oil age will end because we will have found a better solution."

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The global automotive engineering services market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 8.8% from USD 153.3 billion in 2021 to USD 253.9 billion by 2027 -…

Factors such as the increasing demand for connected vehicles, increasing EV sales, and adoption of advanced technologies are expected to boost the market. However, high investment risk and increasing competition are the key challenges in the automotive engineering services market.

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Increasing concerns over air pollution and global warming have forced the governments of several countries to enforce strict emission policies and regulations for ICE vehicles.Increasing adoption of electric vehicles is expected to change the outlook of the automotive engineering services market.

More EV sales would accentuate the need to develop new battery technologies, new chassis and exterior designs, and advanced transmission systems for these vehicles.EV manufacturers such as Tesla, Nissan, and BAIC outsource the design and development of new technologies and solutions to tier 1 engineering companies.

This trend is likely to grow with the rise in EV sales and would drive the automotive engineering services market during the forecast period.The introduction of autonomous vehicles is expected to transform commuting.ADAS technologies have significantly reduced the complexity of driving with features such as lane monitoring and emergency braking, stability controls.

Autonomous vehicles rely on advanced technologies such as LiDAR, radars, ultrasonic sensors, and high-definition cameras to collect data.This data is analyzed by an onboard smart autonomous driving system to maneuver the vehicle safely.

Algorithms used in autonomous vehicles increase driving accuracy.The benefits are then shared with all the other vehicles as well.

Tesla, Volkswagen, Ford, General Motors, and Google plan to launch fully autonomous vehicles in the coming years. These vehicles would require automotive engineering services, including newly designed chassis systems and body controls, new electronic components, advanced vehicle aerodynamics, and stability solutions.Major OEMs and e-hailing service providers such as General Motors, Ford, Uber, Lyft, and Waymo have launched robo-taxi trials in the US.Passengers can hail a self-driving cab from a dedicated application.

The US became the first country to fully deploy robo-taxis for public transportation.Companies such as Tesla, Volkswagen, Ford, General Motors, and Waymo also plan to launch fully autonomous vehicles in the coming years.

In March 2018, Nissan announced plans to deploy ProPILOT in 20 models by 2022.The increasing focus on autonomous driving systems would require OEMs to incorporate more cruise control features and advanced safety systems for semi-autonomous vehicles.

This is further expected to generate more opportunities for engineering services companies, especially in the autonomous vehicles space. However, the negative impact of COVID-19 might delay the development and deployment of autonomous driving systems. For example, Ford delayed the rollout of autonomous vehicles till 2022, from earlier announced 2021.

The passenger cars segment is expected to be the largest and the fastest segment in the forecast.

According to OICA, passenger car production hit around 55 million units in 2020 despite the COVID-19 outbreak.This production volume is expected to be the major driver for the growth of the automotive engineering services market.

The passenger vehicles segment is the most focused vehicle segment for service providers.Technologies used in these vehicles are frequently changing due to the high demand from consumers for luxurious and ADAS features.

Also, government regulations for emissions are frequently changing, influencing the manufacturers to increase the EV output ranges and offer energy-efficient as well as low maintenance technologies to consumers.Increasing urbanization and evolving customer needs have influenced global passenger car sales in recent years.The automotive engineering services market has grown significantly in the passenger car segment due to the increasing customer demand for connectivity and safety features.

The growing demand for digital connectivity features is supported by a wide network coverage of 5G connectivity and the installation of IoT devices in premium sedans and SUVs.In the present scenario, customers want eco-friendly mobility combined with communication.

This creates an opportunity for OEMs to offer more connectivity features in their upcoming vehicles.Hence, the demand for various automotive engineering services is set to increase during the forecast period.

For instance, in 2020, Altran and 5TONIC collaborated on 5G mobile projects to improve the reliability and performance of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in cars.

Outsource is expected to be the fastest location segment in the forecast period.The increasing consumer demand for advanced vehicle connectivity services would fuel the market for outsourcing during the forecast period.OEMs are likely to focus on increasing their outsourcing of automotive engineering services as they prefer the flexibility to meet customers specific demand in all regional markets.

The research and testing of connected cars and cybersecurity are major challenges that contribute to a high number of software changes and software management services.Thus, the OEMs that gain the most value from their collaborations with the engineering service providers will be the ones to select their external partners and ensure that projects stay on track.

All these benefits of outsourcing will have a positive impact on the overall market.Also, ongoing developments in the field of EV batteries are targeted toward improving the range of electric vehicles, with most major manufacturers of EV batteries innovating in battery design and chemistry to extend the range of EVs to eliminate the requirement for regular charging.

This also favors the outsourcing of automotive engineering services for battery management.

In-depth interviews were conducted with CEOs, marketing directors, other innovation and technology directors, and executives from various key organizations operating in this market. By Company Type: Tier I - 23%, Engineering Service Providers - 32%, and OEMs - 45% By Designation: C Level - 61%, D Level - 23%, and Others - 16% By Region: North America - 30%, Europe - 38%, and Asia Pacific - 32%The automotive engineering services market is dominated by global players such as Capgemini (France), IAV Automotive Engineering (Germany), Tech Mahindra (India), AKKA Technologies (Belgium), and Bertrandt AG (Germany).

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Exports of engineering goods witness positive growth – Economic Times

Buoyed by rising global demand and increased economic activities, exports of 32 out of 33 engineering goods categories such as iron and steel, non-ferrous metal products, industrial machinery and office equipment recorded positive growth in March 2021 signalling good times for exporters reeling under loss for the past one year due to pandemic, said EEPC India in a release issued on Saturday.

"While the recovery in the last few months of the fiscal offers a ray of hope for the sector, the rising number of Covid cases poses a downward risk. In order to contain the virus spread, many states have imposed restrictions. This could affect exports and the worst impact would be MSMEs. The government, therefore, needs to expedite vaccination to lessen the impact of a pandemic," said Mr Mahesh Desai, chairman, EEPC India.

The US continued to be on the top of the list of major export destinations. Engineering goods exports to the US stood at US$ 1152.82 million in March 2021, up 25.71% compared to US$ 917.02 million in the corresponding month a year ago. But exports to the US fell down in cumulative terms during FY21.

Exports to China, Indias second-largest export destination recorded sharp monthly as well as cumulative jump. At a total export value of US$ 553.06 million, shipments to China rose 337.40% during March while the cumulative FY21 growth rate was 127.66%. The UAE retained its third position as the largest export destination for the Indian engineering sector although it recorded negative export growth both in cumulative and monthly terms.

As per data compiled by EEPC, exports to 21 out of 25 top markets including the US, China, Singapore and Germany saw shipments from India rising during this period. In February, a year-on-year increase had been seen only in the case of 9 key countries. They included China (68.03%), Singapore (23.10%), Germany (14.30%), Italy (34.39%), Thailand (33.02%) and South Africa (6.52%).

Region-wise, European Union (EU) ranked as the numero uno destination leaving North America behind with a share of 18.5% of total engineering goods exports in 2020-21. Indias exports to North America ranked second with an 18% share while the ASEAN region accounted for 15.4%. Engineering exports saw impressive growth in March 2021 with the total export value increasing to US$ 8.73 billion from US$ 5.20 billion in the same month the previous year.

With the progressive opening of the economy and economic activities on the rise, all segments of engineering goods other than motor vehicles & cars logged positive growth with some of them showing stellar performance in the fag end of the fiscal. For instance, exports of iron and steel recorded a massive jump to the extent of 168% in March 2021 compared to the same period last year.

Positive export performance was noticed in all product group of industrial machinery like boilers (64.49%), internal combustion engines and parts (51.94%), pumps and valves (61.72%), air conditioner and repair machinery (28%), industrial machinery for dairy (57.22%), machine tools (86%), other machinery (30%) during March 2021 compared to same period last fiscal.

In cumulative terms, the growth was definitely negative to the extent of 9.13%, given the significant decline in exports witnessed in all the sub-sectors during April-March 2020-21. Only motor vehicles and cars in the entire automobile sector witnessed negative growth to the extent of 0.94% during March 2021 compared to March 2020. Out of 33 engineering panels, only 1 panel (motor vehicles and cars) recorded a marginal dip. The remarkable jump in other categories is a harbinger of good times for our exporting community," said Mr Desai.

Global trade in goods during 2020-21 recorded a decline of 9% as per the latest UNCTAD data. However, experts around the world have indicated that the gradual recovery of economic activities across the globe and especially in East Asia in the last few months have been able to limit the global trade declined to single-digit level.

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Bloomfield Fire and Engineering Departments to Begin Routine Hydrant Flushing This Friday – TAPinto.net

BLOOMFIELD, NJ -- The Bloomfield Fire Department, in partnership with the Bloomfield Engineering Department will begin routine, mandatory hydrant flushing this Friday. Residents that may be impacted by the hydrant flushing will be notified ahead of time on the township cable channel and the township website to minimize disruption.

Hydrant flushing is a routine maintenance process that our Fire Department and Engineering Department jointly perform in a quick and efficient manner, said Mayor Michael Venezia. It is our goal to have preemptive communication with residents so that they know when this will be taking place in their neighborhood. Please monitor the town cable channel and our website to stay up to date with when this will be taking place in your neighborhood.

Our department works hard to protect the people of Bloomfield and part of this includes performing regular maintenance and inspections, said Fire Chief Lou Venezia. Not only is hydrant flushing required, but it is a critical task that we do so that when we need these hydrants during a fire we know that they will function properly without incident.

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Regular hydrant flushing is required by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the National Fire Protection Association to flush out sentiment and to check to ensure that the hydrants are functioning properly among other things.

There are roughly 1200 fire hydrants in the township that will be serviced and that process will take approximately four months to complete.

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Ask the Engineers: ‘What are some career options for the over-fifties?’ – Professional Engineering

'Many of my former colleagues have used their technical expertise as well as their extensive networks to launch successful consultancy careers' (Stock image credit: Shutterstock)

Are you stuck in a career rut or planning your next move? Maybe youre a student struggling to decide on an industry? We're putting your burning questions to our panel of seasoned engineers.

In Issue 2, 2021, a reader asked: "What are some career options for the over-fifties? What industries are interested in sourcing experienced and motivated engineers, say five years before retirement?"

"Probably plenty: but aim for one related to your past. I started in a very small cog in a very large company designing and manufacturing papermaking machines, eventually becoming a global troubleshooter and operator trainer. I got tired of the travel, and joined a successful paper mill as their R&D engineer. The mill realised that it was using very old machinery, and by motivating the existing engineers and the board I more than doubled the output and profit before retirement."

Michael Reid

"I think some of the smaller start-up tech companies need to pull on this experienced pool of people. Cash is tight so therefore people with innovative ideas sometimes need people with the skills to turn smart ideas into realistic solutions. One area to look into is the production of low-cost prosthetic limbs. There are lots of ideas, but how do you turn the medical requirement into a viable product for mass production? Medical tech is definitely an area to look into."

Tom Doyle

"Speaking as one of those, overwhelmingly it is in consultancy. Many of my former colleagues have used their technical expertise as well as their extensive networks to launch successful consultancy careers. Anyone who is considering that though does absolutely have to have the networking skills to get the business. I did that for almost 20 years and it was varied, interesting and fulfilling."

Tony Holme

"Be flexible. There is a considerable demand for and appreciation of experience as long as you are willing to explore and stretch yourself. Laid off at 58, I have had three brilliant jobs in the intervening 12 years and am still engineering."

Duncan Saunders

"With that many years of experience I would consider freelance/contracting. A lot of small firms want this level of experience for business performance projects or specific engineering projects but dont necessarily want the commitment of a long-term employee. Flexibility is increasing in the job market and people with the skills and experience can take advantage of this."

Jolyon Lomax

"As an over-50 engineer, I have moved into project management where skills built up over a career, such as maintenance, engineering management, leadership and exposure to the financial and commercial aspects of engineering, can all be brought together."

James Blanchard

"In my experience, such engineers are recognised for being effective in subcontract placements. I was already over 60 when I started a placement with Rolls-Royce that renewed for five years."

James Lee

"It depends on your skill set. It is very easy to become obsolete if you dont work at your skills. Project engineering (such as infrastructure projects) with short-term project teams hired and released would be one area where age (and career progression) would be less relevant."

Martyn Ralph

"Project management and consultancy in an industry you know are always a good bet: they rely more on experience than continuous raw energy, but you still need enthusiasm and focus. Short-term (six-month) contract work can suit over-fifties, often well paid."

Anonymous

"There should be many and various opportunities for engineers in their fifties, but this is hampered by recruiters failing to understand engineering qualifications and managers seeking cheaper and less experienced staff to work for them."

Alexander Wooldridge Smith

"Most employers would be keen for experienced and knowledgeable individuals who can hit the ground running, bring with them a diversity of lessons learnt and cross-industry best practice. Age should not be the driver, but more the drive of the individual that counts."

Mike Cameron-Davies

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Global Automotive Acoustic Engineering Services Market: Insights, Top Manufacturers Analysis, Trend And Demand 2028 AVL List GmbH, Siemens Product…

The persuasive Automotive Acoustic Engineering Services Market business report is generated by performing high level market research analysis of key marketplace segments to identify opportunities, challenges, drivers, and market structures for clients. This market analysis report brings into focus plentiful of factors such as general market conditions, trends, inclinations, key players, opportunities, and geographical analysis which all aids to take the business towards the growth and success. In this industry report, several aspects about the market research and analysis for the Global Automotive Acoustic Engineering Services Industry have been underlined. Automotive Acoustic Engineering Services report has been designed by keeping in mind the customer requirements which assist them in increasing their return on investment (ROI).

The Global Automotive Acoustic Engineering Services Market is set to witness a CAGR of 7.15% in the forecast period of 2018-2025, leading to a rise in the estimated value of USD 4.08 billion by the end of 2025, rising from its initial estimated value of USD 2.35 billion. This can be directly related to the rise in demand for comfort in car cabins, luxury features by the people. Also, increasing government regulations about the permissible noise range of the vehicles and the rising cost of Research & Development has driven the market forward.

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AVL List GmbH, Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc., Bertrandt, EDAG Engineering GmbH, Schaeffler AG, FEV Europe GmbH, Continental AG, IAV Automotive Engineering Inc., Autoneum, STS Group AG, HEAD acoustics GmbH, Verdict Media Limited, Sound Seal, m+p international Mess- und Rechnertechnik GmbH, Adler Pelzer Holding GmbH, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Infosys Limited, Data Physics Corporation, and Signal.X Technologies LLC are few of the major market players in Global Automotive Acoustic Engineering Services Market.

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Research Associate in the Department of Engineering job with KINGS COLLEGE LONDON | 252537 – Times Higher Education (THE)

Research Associate in the Department of Engineering

Job ID: 020544

Salary: 38,304 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance

Posted: 22-Apr-2021

Closing date: 06-May-2021

Business unit: Natural & Mathematical Sciences

Department: Engineering

Contact details: Professor Harris Makatsoris, harris.makatsoris@kcl.ac.uk

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Job descriptionThe Process Engineering research group in the Department of EngineeringThe Post Doctoral Research Associate in Continuous Manufacture of pharmaceutical particles is aimed at applicants who have already completed and hold a PhD degree or equivalent in an area related to process intensification, flow chemistry or continuous manufacturing of drug substances and have a background in chemistry or chemical or process systems engineering. The post holder will complement the existing team researching continuous flow technologies for the scale up of the controlled synthesis of drug particles for a range of therapeutic application areas.The post holder will have the opportunity to access state of the art equipment and additionally will work together with other leading groups in the research domain at King's College London. The post holder will require sound laboratory skills and will be expected to interface and collaborate with stakeholders and research groups both internal and external to Kings College including our Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, and will be expected to communicate and promote the outcomes of experimental work.The post holder will also investigate and coordinate demonstration activities of our technology to the stakeholder network, primarily online through events and engagement. The post holder will be a PDRA researcher for the initial 12 months, working alongside the investigator team and will be reporting directly to the PI.The Engineering Department is undergoing a significant investment programme with a 15 million commitment for development that commenced in August 2019. Engineering has a rich history at King's and heritage. Kings College London (KCL) is ranked 31st in the 2019 QS world universities rankings and was ranked sixth nationally in the 'power' ranking in the 2014 REF. The Department builds upon this reputation with a focus on emerging technologies, with research in sustainable systems & manufacturing, telecommunications, robotics, and energy as key areas, with the more recent addition of process intensification and continuous manufacturing, where the post holder will be hosted.This post will be offered on a full-time, fixed term contract from 1st June 2021 until 31st May 2022. Start date is non negotiable.

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MI Wildfire Scorches Thousands of Acres, Force Evacuations – FireEngineering.com

SAND LAKE, Mich. (AP) Firefighters are battling a fire that has blackened about thousands of acres in northeastern Michigan and has forced about 100 area residents to flee their homes, state police officials said Friday.

The U.S. Forest Service started a control burn at the Huron-Manistee National Forests north of the village of Sand Lake that raged out of control and threatened to set fire to housing subdivisions in the area, according to Joshua Veal, the public affairs officer at the forests. Multiple aircraft, including tankers, were involved in battling the fire.

Were working really hard on our side to catch it and get it suppressed, Veal said.

There were no immediate reports of injuries or structures lost, according to authorities, who were warning people about the fires threat.

Anyone in the area is asked to use caution and avoid the affected areas, Michigan State Police spokeswoman Lt. Liz Rich said in a statement

The displaced residents were being housed at a local high school. Authorities said the people sheltering at Tawas High School will be encouraged to wear masks to protect them from COVID-19.

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Shifting service: Temple Engineers Without Borders connected to a local project during COVID-19 – Temple University News

In a year where travel opportunities have largely been diminished by the pandemic, Temples Engineers Without Borders shifted its focus to make an impact closer to home.

In fall of 2020, the group finalized documentation of its most recent international trip, 3,200 or so miles away in Saccha, Peru, after completing a multi-year project to bring clean water to the village. Their next partnership brings them about just five miles from Main Campus, to South Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Engineers Without Borders worked with the Temple student chapter and VietLead, a South Philadelphia community group, to renovate an existing community garden at Horace Furness High School. The project consists of three main components: a greenhouse (led by the Temple students) along with compost bins and an irrigation system.

Early in the year we reached out to Torin Johnson, ENG 16, 21, a former Temple Engineers Without Borders president and the current president of the Philadelphia Engineers Without Borders chapter, to scout a local project to replace our typical international work. He has always been invested in our club and its members, said Carly Smith, mechanical engineering graduate student and current Temple Engineers Without Borders president. The scope of this project and timing created a perfect opportunity for our club to get involved.

According to Smith, every one of the 15 Temple members is involved in the project, as is Chris Menna, ENG 94, who is advising the Temple group.In a year where everyone has been so isolated, Engineers Without Borders has provided a place for students to find community and serve, Smith said. Now, more than ever, we need to be joining clubs, giving back and focusing on others.

The proposed greenhouse is aimed to optimize gardening capabilities and open the door to earlier garden schedules, with more crops being planted and produced. The greenhouse will also serve as a location for community workshops and engagement on nutrition and organic gardening.

Engineers Without Borders Philly is happy to provide mentorship to the Temple chapter, Johnson added. Theyre a great team and have contributed a lot of work toward surveying and drafting. Were providing insight and experience for them to refine their CAD (computer-aided design)] work and to produce plans that will elevate our design work. This partnership between our chapters exemplifies what Engineers Without Borders teamwork and professionalism are all about.Should restrictions on international travel relaxan assumption tied to the hopeful abatement of the pandemicTemple Engineers Without Borders will re-examine a possible international project again this fall, something Smith hopes will help to drive interest in joining the group. The group has already begun sourcing its next location, potentially in Kenya, with an eye on making a selection by the end of the summer.

International projects typically take a couple years to complete. However, its been refreshing to focus our efforts close to home. The local project has also allowed every member of the club to participate, Smith said.

To learn more about Temple Engineers Without Borders, visit engineering.temple.edu.

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Some say we can solar-engineer ourselves out of the climate crisis. Dont buy it – The Guardian

As we arrive at Earth Day, there is renewed hope in the battle to avert catastrophic climate change. Under newly elected president Joe Biden, the US has reasserted global leadership in this defining challenge of our time, bringing world leaders together in Washington this week to galvanize the global effort to ramp down carbon emissions in the decade ahead.

So there is promise. But there is also great peril looming in the foreground.

Just as the world, at long last, is getting its act together, an ominous sun-dimming cloud has appeared on the horizon, threatening to derail these nascent efforts. That cloud comes in the form of technologies whose proponents call somewhat deceptively solar geoengineering.

So-called solar geoengineering doesnt actually modify the sun itself. Instead, it reduces incoming sunlight by other means, such as putting chemicals in the atmosphere that reflect sunlight to space. It addresses a symptom of global heating, rather than the root cause, which is human-caused increase in the atmospheres burden of carbon dioxide.

While it is certainly true that reducing sunlight can cause cooling (we know that from massive but episodic volcanic eruptions such as Pinatubo in 1991), it acts on a very different part of the climate system than carbon dioxide. And efforts to offset carbon dioxide-caused warming with sunlight reduction would yield a very different climate, perhaps one unlike any seen before in Earths history, with massive shifts in atmospheric circulation and rainfall patterns and possible worsening of droughts.

What could possibly go wrong? Elizabeth Kolberts book Under a White Sky documents case after case where supposedly benign environmental interventions have had unintended consequences requiring layer after layer of escalating further technological interventions to avert disaster. When the impacts are local, as in Australias struggle to deal with consequences of deliberate introduction of the cane toad, the spread of catastrophe can be contained (so far, at least). But what happens when the unintended consequences afflict the entire planet?

Then there is the mismatch of time scales. The heating effect of carbon dioxide persists for 10,000 years or more, absent unproven technologies for scrubbing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. In contrast, the sun-dimming particles in question drop out in a year or less, meaning that if you come to rely on geoengineering for survival, you need to keep it up essentially forever. Think of it as climate methadone.

And if we are ever forced to stop, we are hit with dangerous withdrawal symptoms a catastrophic termination shock wherein a century of pent-up global heating emerges within a decade. Some proponents insist we can always stop if we dont like the result. Well yes, we can stop. Just like if youre being kept alive by a ventilator with no hope of a cure, you can turn it off and suffer the consequences.

Geoengineering evangelists at Harvard have pushed for expanded consideration of such technology; as panic over the climate crisis has grown, so too has support for perilous geoengineering schemes spread well beyond Cambridge, Massachusetts. And the lines between basic theoretical research (which is worthwhile climate model experiments, for example, have revealed the potential perils) on the one hand, and field testing and implementation on the other, have increasingly been blurred.

Solar geoengineering has been cited in the Democratic Climate Action Plan. MITs Maria Zuber, incoming co-chair of Bidens presidents council of advisers on science and technology (PCAST) is on record as favoring an expanded federal geoengineering research program. And now the other shoe has dropped the US National Research Council has recently released a report going well beyond the very cautious, tentative recommendations for continued research in the 2015 NRC report one of us (Pierrehumbert) co-authored.

The new report pushes for a massive $200m five-year funding program. The growing support is based on a fundamental misconception, captured in the NRC reports justification statement: that we likely wont achieve the necessary decarbonization of our economy in time to avoid massive climate damages, so this technology might be needed.

Such Plan B framing is the worst possible justification for developing solar geoengineering technology. It is laden in moral hazard providing, as it does, an excuse for fossil fuel interests and their advocates to continue with business as usual. Why reduce carbon pollution if there is a cheap workaround? In The New Climate War, one of us (Mann) argues that geoengineering advocacy is indeed one of the key delay tactics used by polluters.

If the world fails to achieve net zero carbon dioxide emissions, then each years emissions will add to the stock of atmospheric carbon dioxide, requiring ever-escalating ratcheting up any techno-fix and ever-escalating increase in the damage wrought by termination shock. And meanwhile, other dangerous effects of accumulating carbon pollution, such as ocean acidification, continue to worsen over time.

If the world decarbonizes eventually but only after pumping out so much carbon dioxide that it renders the world lethally hot, then deploying sun-dimming as a survival tactic puts the world in a precarious state, one in which current and future generations would live in perpetual fear of sudden death by termination shock. The sad fact of the matter is that there is no viable plan B for the climate crisis; rapid decarbonization is our only safe path forward.

Advocates in the scientific community, for the most part, are only recommending research, not deployment, right now. But research wont solve any of the big unknowns. And it wont make any of the really big known problems millennial commitment and termination shock go away. Research that goes beyond basic climate modeling experiments, for example that involving field tests and trial runs, will likely only serve to boost development of engineering technologies that make deployment more likely. The Harvard group, in fact, has provided a whole roadmap to deployment including working on designs of aircraft to deliberately pollute the stratosphere. That can hardly be dismissed as merely research.

Advocates are generally clear in stating that sunlight reduction is no substitute for decarbonization, but they are naive in their professed belief that developing the technologies can be done without risk to the push for real solutions to the climate crisis.

In his own recent book, Bill Gates insists that renewable energy is inadequate to decarbonize our economy at present. Peer-reviewed research suggests hes wrong about that. But in being so dour about renewables he ends up advocating for the far riskier strategy of geoengineering a strategy that will shift needed resources away from safe clean-energy solutions.

It is said that desperate times call for desperate measures. But there is still a safe path forward to addressing the climate crisis as long as we avoid unwise detours and dead ends.

Ray Pierrehumbert, FRS, is the Halley professor of physics at the University of Oxford. He was an author of the 2015 NRC report on climate intervention

Michael E Mann is distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

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Some say we can solar-engineer ourselves out of the climate crisis. Dont buy it - The Guardian

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