Climate engineering in 2012
Some media rank climate engineering as an important news event of 2012.
Month: December 2012
UnderwaterTimes.com: Geo-Engineering Against Climate Change: Seeding The Oceans With Iron May Not Address Carbon Emissions
“Previous estimates of cost fail to recognize the economic challenge of distributing low concentrations of iron over large areas of the ocean surface and the subsequent loss processes that result in only a small net storage of carbon per square kilometer fertilized.”
SRMGI Workshop: African Involvement in Solar Geoengineering
14.01.2013, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
“[A] half day workshop held in conjunction with the 24th Colloquium of African Geology (CAG24). The African Academy of Sciences (AAS)[nbsp]and SRMGI will be co-convening this workshop”
Security and Peace (Sicherheit und Frieden, S+F): Special issue “Geoengineering: An Issue for Peace and Security?”
Special issue of the Journal S+F with texts based on the international conference in Hamburg November 2011.
Abelkop, Adam D. K.; Carlson, Jonathan C. (2012): Reining in Phaëthon’s Chariot: Principles for the Governance of Geoengineering
Abelkop, Adam D. K.; Carlson, Jonathan C. (2012): Reining in Phaëthon’s Chariot: Principles for the Governance of Geoengineering. In: University of Iowa – Legal Studies Research Paper 21 (27), pp. 101–145.
“This paper argues that there is an urgent need for the international community to establish a governance framework to control geoengineering experimentation and implementation. All proposals currently under discussion are likely to have some adverse, possibly severe, impacts on ecosystems or climate”
NOAA (2012): State of the Science Fact Sheet. Climate Engineering
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2012): State of the Science Fact Sheet. Climate Engineering. Ed.: U.S. Department of Commerce.
Two page fact sheet.
Link (pdf)
globalwarmingisreal.com: Permaculture and Perennial Crops as a Geo-Engineering Strategy
“One idea, touted by permaculturist Mark Shepard, is to change the farming paradigm away from annual crops to perennial crops.[nbsp] The concept of replanting crops every year is the norm in farming culture, but we don’t often stop to ask if that is the most efficient and environmentally friendly methodology.”
lfpress.com: Climate change will lead to geo-engineering
The article discusses mitigation and adaptation against CE.
Weitzman, Martin L. (2012): A Voting Architecture for the Governance of Free-Driver Externalities. With Application to Geoengineering
Weitzman, Martin L. (2012): A Voting Architecture for the Governance of Free-Driver Externalities. With Application to Geoengineering. In: NBER Working Paper Series (18622).
“This paper develops the main features of a “free driver” externality in a simple model based on the asymmetric consequences of type-I and type-II errors.”
The Economist: Atmospheric governance
Media response to Weitzman (2012).