futurezone: Geoengineering chemotherapy for the planet
German interview with Gernot Wagner.
Jahr: 2016
Scientific American: What’s Next for Climate Action?
„Prominent scientists say researchers and policy makers need to focus more on adapting to warming and on controversial geoengineering techniques to limit it“
Corry, Olaf (2016): Globalising the Arctic Climate: Geoengineering and the Emerging Global Polity
Corry, Olaf (2016): Globalising the Arctic Climate: Geoengineering and the Emerging Global Polity. In: Kathrin Keil und Sebastian Knecht (Hg.): Governing Arctic Change. Global Perspectives. London: Palgrave Macmillan, S. 59–78.
„The emergence of the Arctic climate as a potential target of governance with the help of geoengineering techniques provides a case in point.“
Isla, Ana; von Werlhof Claudia (2017): Mother Earth Under Threat. Ecofeminism, the Land Question, and Bioengineering
Isla, Ana; von Werlhof Claudia (2017): Mother Earth Under Threat. Ecofeminism, the Land Question, and Bioengineering. Inanna Pubns [&] Education Inc.
„The volume re-examines existing analyses from this new and much broader point of view in theory and reality, and points to the need for a new concept of nature and the earth as a living being, a cosmic being, so that it is the life of the earth herself that today must be protected.“
ETC Group: UN Convention still says “No” to manipulating the climate
„The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which gathered at its 13th Conference of the Parties (COP 13) in Mexico from December 4-17, decided to reaffirm its landmark moratorium on climate-related geoengineering that it first agreed to in 2010.“
The Times: Trump, Tillerson and the theory of engineering a fix for climate change
„We’ve had a vote on Brexit and narrowly skipped Grexit. Will 2017 be the year of Rexit, when a Texan oil baron takes an axe to global agreements on climate change? Some fear that Rex Tillerson may try to do just that.“
NPR: A Planet With Brains? The Peril And Potential Of Self-Aware Geological Change
„Anthropocene dilemma“: We have global influence without global self-control. However, global technological influence clearly contains both peril and promise. Conscious awareness and control can also be sources of stabilizing negative feedback. This merely requires recognizing a problem and acting to fix it.“
Lo, Y. T. Eunice; et al. (2016): Detecting sulphate aerosol geoengineering with different methods
Lo, Y. T. Eunice; Charlton-Perez, Andrew J.; Lott, Fraser C.; Highwood, Eleanor J. (2016): Detecting sulphate aerosol geoengineering with different methods. In: Scientific reports 6, S. 39169. DOI: 10.1038/srep39169.
„Sulphate aerosol injection has been widely discussed as a possible way to engineer future climate. Monitoring it would require detecting its effects amidst internal variability and in the presence of other external forcings. We investigate how the use of different detection methods and filtering techniques affects the detectability of sulphate aerosol geoengineering in annual-mean global-mean near-surface air temperature. This is done by assuming a future scenario that injects 5 Tg yr−1 of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere and cross-comparing simulations from 5 climate models.“
Chemistry World: Atmospheric limestone dust injection could halt global warming
„Geoengineering using limestone aerosols would also help to stop ozone layer depletion“
MacCracken, Michael C. (2016): The Rationale for Accelerating Regionally Focused Climate Intervention Research
MacCracken, Michael C. (2016): The Rationale for Accelerating Regionally Focused Climate Intervention Research. In: Earth’s Future. DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000450.
„Given the still limited international success along the path to the phase-out of greenhouse-gas-emitting energy generating technologies and the consequent inevitability of worsening impacts, this paper suggests that researching and potentially deploying impact-focused, regional interventions may provide a means for both moderating some of the worst impacts and improving understanding of that could be useful in preparing for global interventions, if that should eventually be viewed as necessary. Investigating and exploring early implementation of regionally and tropospheric-focused approaches that would moderate Arctic warming, tropical cyclone intensification, the increasing loss of ice from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and help in counteracting the coming loss of the sulfate offset would seem to be the highest priorities to explore.“