Future Tense: Cutting Carbon Dioxide Isn’t Enough
Discussion of CDR technologies motivated by the exceeding of the 400 ppm CO2 mark.
CO₂-removal News
The Sydney Morning Herald: Australia seeks to limit ocean geoengineering
„Australia has launched a bid to stop the commercial use of a controversial “geoengineering“ technique that involves dumping iron into the ocean in a bid to counter the effects of man-made climate change.“
argunet Blog: Mapping the Climate Engineering Controversy: A Case of Argument-Analysis Driven Policy Advice
Further information on argument maps developt in the scoping study (BMBF). „In sum, we found that argument mapping techniques are very helpful in compiling assessment reports.“
ENN: Should We Change the Climate If We Could?
General article on CE with further discussion of SPICE.
e! Science News: Cooling ocean temperature could buy more time for coral reefs
Media response to Couce (2013). „Limiting the amount of warming experienced by the world’s oceans in the future could buy some time for tropical coral reefs, say researchers from the University of Bristol.“
Couce, E.; et al. (2013): Tropical coral reef habitat in a geoengineered, high-CO 2 world
Couce, E.; Irvine, P. J.; Gregorie, L. J.; Ridgwell, A.; Hendy, E. J. (2013): Tropical coral reef habitat in a geoengineered, high-CO 2 world. In Geophys. Res. Lett., pp. n/a. DOI 10.1002/grl.50340.
“ We apply statistical Bioclimatic Envelope Models to project changes in shallow water tropical coral reef habitat as a single niche (without resolving biodiversity or community composition) under various representative concentration pathway and SRM scenarios, until 2070.“
Kruger, Tim (2013): A Commentary on the Oxford Principles
Kruger, Tim (2013): A Commentary on the Oxford Principles. Opinion Article (Geoengineering Our Climate? Working Paper and Opinion Article Series, 3).
Commentaries to the 5 Oxford Principles with further elaboration on the role of the principles in the SPICE Project.
The Conversation: Carbon dioxide hits a new high, but geo-engineering won’t help
Argumentation against CE as a way out of a 400 ppm CO2 world.
Weitzman, Martin L. (2013): A Voting Architecture for the Governance of Free-Driver Externalities, with Application to Geoengineering. Discussion Paper
Weitzman, Martin L. (2013): A Voting Architecture for the Governance of Free-Driver Externalities, with Application to Geoengineering. Discussion Paper. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School (Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, 55).
Economic rational choice paper. „This paper develops the main features of a free driverexternality in a simple model based on the asymmetric consequences of type-I and type-II errors.“