Monat: Januar 2017

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Nextbigfuture Blog: Now that climate scientists know that emissions will not be kept below what would be a less than 2 degree global change level will geoengineering get serious attention

„In 2008 some climate scientiss said that the world had 100 months to enact drastic anti-global warming policies to avoid the environment warming by two degrees celsius compared to pre-industrial times. The 100 months have passed and only modest policies have been enacted and it seems likely that some of the policies will be reverse with more use of fossil fuels.“

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Project Syndicate: Geoengineering Climate Change

„Even climate activists increasingly recognize that the lofty rhetoric of the global agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, concluded in Paris just over a year ago, will not be matched by its promises’ actual impact on temperatures. This should make us think about smart, alternative solutions. But one such alternative, geoengineering, is a solution that many people refuse to entertain.“

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Szerszynski, Bronislaw (2016): Coloring Climates: Imagining a Geoengineered World

Szerszynski, Bronislaw (2016): Coloring Climates: Imagining a Geoengineered World. In: Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen und Michelle Niemann (Hg.): The Routledge companion to the environmental humanities: Routledge, S. 82–90.

„In this chapter I will discuss the contemporary sociotechnical imaginary of climate geoengineering. If in the Anthropocene our own planet, as much as any other planet we may come to inhabit, becomes an intended world, one in which the majority of once-natural processes and systems are not just accidentally but deliberately shaped by human action, what would be the best word to catpure its climates?“

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