eprintid: 25204
rev_number: 12
eprint_status: archive
userid: 3114
dir: disk0/00/02/52/04
datestamp: 2018-08-10 07:23:56
lastmod: 2018-10-04 08:22:07
status_changed: 2018-08-10 07:23:56
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Pfrommer, Tobias
title: Diverging Regional Climate Preferences and the Assessment
of Solar Geoengineering
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
abstract: Solar Geoengineering (SG) is a set of potential technologies to counteract climate change. While SG can only imperfectly compensate for temperature changes at the regional level, studies assessing regional SG impacts indicated so far that regional temperature disparities from SG may not be as severe as previously thought. A
shortcoming of that literature is its assumption that regions’ temperature preferences correspond to some historic baseline climate. I extend the main framework for examining regional SG impacts by allowing for regions to have temperature preferences diverging from the baseline climate, showing that the impact of these diverging preferences can be split into two components. The first component changes the optimal SG level, but does not affect regional disagreement over SG. The second component leaves the optimal SG level unaffected, but changes regional disagreement over SG. I identify three aspects of SG performance in the presence of diverging preferences. A numerical implementation of the extended model shows that the presence of diverging preferences may change SG performance in either direction and that
the direction generally depends on which of the three aspects of SG performance is considered.
date: 2018-08-09
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00025204
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0654
ppn_swb: 102927987X
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-252042
language: eng
bibsort: PFROMMERTODIVERGINGR20180809
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series
volume: 0654
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
citation:   Pfrommer, Tobias  (2018) Diverging Regional Climate Preferences and the Assessment of Solar Geoengineering.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/25204/1/Pfrommer_dp%20654.pdf