Kimberly Samuels-Crow
Head Writer
Kimberly is the head writer for SRM360, where she utilizes her background as a climate scientist. Prior to this role, Kimberly was an Assistant Research Professor at Northern Arizona University. She creates first drafts of SRM360’s in-house content – and makes sure it is as useful as possible to generalist decision makers.
Content Authored:
IPCC to Include SRM in Next Assessment Report
In late February, the IPCC met in China to develop chapter outlines for the 7th Assessment Report (AR7). We asked experts for...
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How Would SAI Impact Renewable Energy?
Renewable energy depends on sunlight, wind, and other environmental energy sources. How could climate change and geoengineeri...
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How Would SRM Affect Plants?
Plants need sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide (CO2) to photosynthesise. They also need nutrients and the right c...
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Cooling Credits: Could Paying for SRM Deployment Offset CO2 Emissions?
“Cooling credits” are being offered as a way for companies and individuals to offset their carbon dioxide (CO2...
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Could SAI Replace the Lost Cooling Effect From Cleaning Up Air Pollution?
As well as driving climate change, burning fossil fuels creates toxic air pollution, which kills millions of people each year...
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Would Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Add to Acid Rain?
The sulphate particles that could be used for stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) would add to acid rain. With sulphate pol...
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Will Scientists Know if SRM Caused Extreme Weather?
If sunlight reflection methods, also known as solar radiation modification (SRM), were deployed to lower temperatures, and ev...
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Will Climate Change Become Unbearable When the World Reaches 1.5°C or 2°C?
In 2015, almost all countries agreed to try to limit warming to 1.5°C to 2°C above the pre-industrial average. However, the...
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What Is SRM?
Sunlight reflection methods or solar radiation modification (SRM) describes a set of ideas to counteract global warming by re...
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Marine Cloud Brightening
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) is an idea to enhance the reflectivity of low-lying clouds over the oceans. Spraying tiny sea-...
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Could SAI Delay the Recovery of the Ozone Layer?
The ozone layer that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays is slowly recovering from the damage done to it by huma...
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Surface Albedo Modification
Surface albedo modification describes a set of ideas to produce a cooling effect by increasing the amount of light reflected ...
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Cirrus Cloud Thinning
Cirrus cloud thinning (CCT) would cool the Earth by thinning heat-trapping cirrus clouds. Currently, scientists are not certa...
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SRM Cannot Address Ocean Acidification
Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the main driver of global warming, but CO2 also poses another pro...
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Every Tonne of CO2 Adds to Global Warming
Every tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted drives up temperatures and does so almost linearly: if twice as much i...
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