„The techniques are big and brash;[nbsp]they are also very risky[nbsp]and[nbsp]in[nbsp]no way[nbsp]ready for prime time. Despite being untested, and their consequences unknown, discussing such strategies has become less taboo of late, thanks, in part, to an increased sense of urgency to find short-term solutions.“
On Earth Day and EGU Assembly. „Just last week, more than 11,000 scientists gathered at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly to discuss, among other things, the perils of atmospheric engineering.“
Nicholson, Simon; Thompson, Micheal (2015): Strange Bedfellows: Climate Engineering Politics in the United States (Geoengineering Our Climate? Working Paper and Opinion Article Series).
„When it comes to climate engineering, though, (and we use the term “climate engineering” in its broadest sense here, to refer to the full potential set of greenhouse gas removal and albedo modification technologies, since this wide usage best reflects the muddied state of the conversation in the United States), the picture is a good deal more complicated.“
Weisenstein, D. K.; Keith, D. W. (2015): Solar geoengineering using solid aerosol in the stratosphere. In Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. 15 (8), pp. 11799–11851. DOI 10.5194/acpd-15-11799-2015.
„Solid aerosols that are coated with sulfate and/or have formed aggregates may have very different scattering properties and chemical behavior than do uncoated non-aggregated monomers. We use a two-dimensional chemical transport model to capture the dynamics of interacting solid and liquid aerosols in the stratosphere.„
Markowitz, Ezra M.; Grasso, Marco; Jamieson, Dale (2015): Climate ethics at a multidisciplinary crossroads: four directions for future scholarship. In Climatic Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1404-4.
„Here, we identify four directions for near-future climate ethics research that we believe are both in need of further examination and likely to be of interest to a diverse coalition of decision-makers working “on the ground”: geoengineering; scope of ethical consideration; responsibility of actors; and, hazards, vulnerabilities and impacts.“
„As geoengineering is increasingly seen as a method of limiting global warming, Jasdeep Randhawa explores ways of regulating the conduct of geoengineering experiments.“
Austrian newspaper article on the CE sessions at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna.
Press release. „As a result, more sunlight would reflect back to space before reaching the planet’s surface, and thus the surface would cool. Could SRM be a useful method to mitigate global warming?“
Robock, Alan (2015): Cloud control: Climatologist Alan Robock on the effects of geoengineering and nuclear war. In Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. DOI 10.1177/0096340215581353.
„In this interview, Rutgers University climatologist Alan Robock talks with Elisabeth Eaves from the Bulletin about geoengineering and nuclear winter. He says that geoengineering is not the solution to global warming because of its many risks and unknowns.“
„Conversation With Climate Scientist and Energy Technology and Public Policy Expert David Keith“
