„Reducing the solar radiation that reaches Earth will have potentially significant consequences beyond limiting the mean temperature of the planet; it may reduce annual rainfall, especially in the Americas and northern Eurasia.“
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2012): Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Technical and Regulatory Matters. Convention on Biological Diversity. Montreal (Technical Series, 66)
„These studies—published here—were conducted by a highly authorative group of experts, thanks to financial support from the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Government of Norway and the European Commission. The studies were subject to two rounds of peer review, and then discussed at the sixteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-16), where they were well-received.“
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Hulme, M. (2012): Climate change: Climate engineering through stratospheric aerosol injection. In: Progress in Physical Geography 36 (5), pp. 694–705
Analysing stratospheric aerosols on different social and political sacales. „In this progress report on climate change, I examine the growing literature dealing with the proposal to engineer global climate through the deliberate injection of aerosols into the stratosphere.“
About the benefits and drawbacks of biochar.
New project homepage. „The Climate Geoengineering Governance project is a research collaboration between researchers from the Universities of Oxford, Sussex and University College London (UCL), with funding from two UK research councils, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).“
Josh Horton summarises and discusses the latest article from Huffington Post.
Interview with David Keith von SRM methods.
„On geo-engineering, she [Elenita Dano, ETC group] said it is ironic that the UNFCCC has not touched this issue although a lot of its discussion on mitigation is about geo-engineering with its roadmap for research and development, and deployment.„
Critical and general text on CE.
German left wing newspaper on the topic of testing CE and about CE in general.
