„We’ve been terrible at managing emissions. Can we shift from unintended global warming to managing climate by design?“
Monat: Oktober 2016
Phys.org: A reliance on negative emissions technologies is locking in carbon addiction
„The journal Science has published a Perspective which reveals the scale and widespread reliance on ’negative emissions technologies‘, which remain at best experimental. Nevertheless the models being used to advise governments on what action to take are dominated by such highly speculative technologies – with many assuming their mass roll-out beginning within the decade.“
Boyd, Philip W.; Bressac, Matthieu (2016): Developing a test-bed for robust research governance of geoengineering. The contribution of ocean iron biogeochemistry
Boyd, Philip W.; Bressac, Matthieu (2016): Developing a test-bed for robust research governance of geoengineering. The contribution of ocean iron biogeochemistry. In Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 374 (2081), p. 20150299–20150299. DOI 10.1098/rsta.2015.0299.
„Exploration of the feasibility of geoengineering first requires the development of research governance to move beyond the conceptual towards scientifically designed pilot studies. Fortuitously, 12 mesoscale (approx. 1000 km2) iron enrichments, funded to investigate how ocean iron biogeochemistry altered Earth’s carbon cycle in the geological past, provide proxies to better understand the benefits and drawbacks of geoengineering.“
the guardian: The gap between ambition and action in tackling global warming
„If possible at all, this will require a range of CO2 removal technologies. Despite agreeing on highly ambitious climate targets, policymakers and negotiators show limited awareness of this technological dependence: none of the INDCs mentions negative emissions or carbon removal and very few have plans for advancing carbon capture and storage (CCS).“
University of Bristol Law School Blog: Maximising the Legitimacy of the EU’s Regulation of Geoengineering Research
Blog article on Sargoni, Janine (2016). „This new article* sets out how risky SRM field research might be regulated in the EU in such a way as to maximise legitimacy.[nbsp] It suggests that under particular conditions the EU could delegate to an independent agency powers to undertake what I call an incorporated risk assessment; an assessment in which science and politics, expertise and lay-knowledges are combined.[nbsp] Legitimacy would be maximised because the EU’s regulatory framework relating to the risks of SRM field research would be legal and also responsive, flexible, deliberative and inclusive.“
Socialist Action: Geoengineering the Climate: An Act of Mad Desperation
Left-wing newspaper article. „As a last-ditch effort to curb runaway global warming, while avoiding a definitive halt to fossil-fuel combustion, scientists, governments, entrepreneurs, and even right-wing think tanks are advocating various highly dangerous technologies to block solar radiation or draw down atmospheric carbon to cool the planet.“
Motherboard: The Sky, Falling
„If climate change gets catastrophic enough, there are a group of scientists who advocate we experiment with geoengineering—artificially cooling the planet’s temperature, perhaps by seeding the clouds. Today’s dispatch takes place in a perilous, tragic future where such a thing has become a necessity. From the front lines of geoengineering.“
Anderson, K.; Peters, G. (2016): The trouble with negative emissions
Anderson, K.; Peters, G. (2016): The trouble with negative emissions. In Science 354 (6309), pp. 182–183. DOI 10.1126/science.aah4567.
„The Paris Agreement requires that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission sources and sinks are balanced by the second half of this century. Because some nonzero sources are unavoidable, this leads to the abstract concept of “negative emissions,” the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere through technical means. The Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) informing policy-makers assume the large-scale use of negative-emission technologies. If we rely on these and they are not deployed or are unsuccessful at removing CO2 from the atmosphere at the levels assumed, society will be locked into a high-temperature pathway.“
LawSci Forum: Solar Climate Engineering and Intellectual Property
„The potential role of private actors in SCE is unclear. On the one hand, decisions regarding whether and how to intentionally alter the planet’s climate should be made through legitimate state-based processes. On the other hand, the private sector has long been the site of great innovation, which SCE technology development requires. Such private innovation is both stimulated and governed through governmental intellectual property (IP) policies.“