Pete Irvine
Co-Founder, Editorial Director
Pete is a co-founder of SRM360 and a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago’s Climate Systems Engineering Initiative. He oversees all SRM360’s content to make sure it is in line with the latest science. He also hosts SRM360’s regular podcast with the world’s foremost scientists and researchers.
Content Authored:
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...
7 min read
What’s in a Name? How We Describe SRM at SRM360
There are many different ways to describe ideas to reflect sunlight in order to lower global temperatures. Pete Irvine and Ma...
7 min read
The Technical Feasibility and Costs of SAI
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), an idea to add millions of tonnes of reflective particles to the upper atmosphere, see...
7 min read
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...
4 min read
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...
5 min read
Mitigation Displacement: Could SRM Undermine Emissions Cuts?
A common objection to the study and potential development of sunlight reflection methods, also known as solar radiation modif...
5 min read
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...
6 min read
What Is SRM?
Sunlight reflection methods or solar radiation modification (SRM) describes a set of ideas to counteract global warming by re...
7 min read
Marine Cloud Brightening
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) is an idea to enhance the reflectivity of low-lying clouds over the oceans. Spraying tiny sea-...
6 min read
Cirrus Cloud Thinning
Cirrus cloud thinning (CCT) would cool the Earth by thinning heat-trapping cirrus clouds. Currently, scientists are not certa...
5 min read
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...
5 min read
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is an idea to create a layer of tiny reflective particles high in the atmosphere to ref...
7 min read
Content Reviewed:
Marine Cloud Brightening
Marine Cloud Brightening – or MCB – is an idea to brighten clouds over the ocean to reflect more sunlight back to space. How could it work and why is it being studied?
2 mins
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection – or SAI – is an idea to create a thin, persistent layer of tiny particles in the upp...
2 mins
What Is SRM?
Sunlight reflection methods – also known as solar geoengineering or solar radiation modification (SRM) – are a set of id...
2 mins
Content Featured In:
News Roundup: The Next IPCC report, Alternative Aerosol Particles, and More
We’re joined by SRM experts to discuss the latest news: Sandro Vattioni, Alfonso Fernández, Daniele Visioni, and Tyler Felgenhauer.
31 mins
SRM Governance With Cynthia Scharf
Join our exclusive conversation with Cynthia Scharf, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Future Generations.
34 mins
News Roundup: James Hansen and SRM, Arctic Ice Project Shuts Down, New MCB Studies, and More
We’re joined by SRM experts: Viktor Jaakkola, Head of Scientific Collaboration at Operaatio Arktis; Michael Diamond, As...
30 mins
The Geopolitics of SRM
We’re joined by geopolitical experts: Olaf Corry, Beth Chalecki, and Josh Horton.
18 mins
News Roundup: Hottest Year, SRM Under Trump, International SRM Discussions, and More
We’re joined by SRM scientists and governance experts: Blaž Gasparini, Claudia Wieners, and Shuchi Talati to discuss the latest SRM news.
30 mins
What Is Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI)?
SAI is the most studied of all sunlight reflection methods. What would it take to use SAI to cool the planet? And who could do it?
22 mins
News Roundup: Live from the American Geophysical Union
We’re joined by SRM researchers Lili Xia, Chris Lennard, and Tyler Felgenhauer at the American Geophysical Union conference to discuss the latest SRM news.
30 mins
What Is SRM? Who Is Studying It, and Why?
Hear from SRM researchers around the world about why they got into this field.
22 mins
News Roundup: History of SRM
A look-back over the entire history of sunlight reflection methods research and ahead to its future.
43 mins
Introduction to Climate Reflections
The SRM360 Podcast
2 mins