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:
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
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
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:
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