Motherboard: Its Only a Matter of Time: Scientists Consider Geoengineering a Cooler Planet
“Yet 300 scientists, policymakers, legal experts, and NGOs have traveled to Berlin precisely to discuss it, in its biggest public forum yet.”
“Yet 300 scientists, policymakers, legal experts, and NGOs have traveled to Berlin precisely to discuss it, in its biggest public forum yet.”
“Scientists, artists and policymakers pondered whether to hack the planet at a meeting in Berlin this week”
“Researchers there are considering a call for stringent controls on future field experiments aimed at finding ways to curb climate change.”
“The[nbsp]Royal Society of London, the world’s oldest scientific publisher, has unveiled a proposal to create the first serious framework for future geoengineering experiments.”
German radio broadcast by Radio Berlin Brandenburg.
“Geoengineering is raising more issues for the social sciences than the physical sciences.”
“Buoyant, long-[-]lasting flakes can release nutrients slowly, avoiding nutrients waste and allowing balanced marine ecosystems to develop over a period of about one year. The flakes can be blown from ships’ holds to cover large ocean surfaces.”
“Harvard scientist David Keith on why, despite the risks, we must investigate shooting particles of sulphate into the stratosphere, to combat climate change.”
Varga, Somogy (2014): Fiat Justitia, Ruat Caelum. Habermasian Reflections on Moral Constraints. In Ethics, Policy [&] Environment 17 (2), pp. 153–156. DOI 10.1080/21550085.2014.926076.
Response to Morrow, David R. (2014). “[…] I want to argue that such ‘absolute’ interpretations cannot be easily set aside. Although I cannot provide a full defense of the account that I propose, the hope is it will become plausible that it is plausible that it is possible to provide defensible ‘absolute’ interpretations of the moral constrains that do not support using SRM to iprove humanity’s risk profile.”
Kalf, Wouter F. (2014): Why Solar Radiation Management is (Much) More Likely to be Morally Permissible. In Ethics, Policy [&] Environment 17 (2), pp. 150–152. DOI 10.1080/21550085.2014.926075.
Response to Morrow, David R. (2014). “This raises the following question, wich I take to be at the heart of Morrow’s paper: ‘what consequences do Doing and Allowing and [DDE] have for Risk profile?'”