Geoengineering the Climate: An Issue for Peace and Security Studies?
Conference in Hamburg/Germany on climate engineering as an issue of peace and security studies. International and interdisciplinary scientists take part.
Conference in Hamburg/Germany on climate engineering as an issue of peace and security studies. International and interdisciplinary scientists take part.
DE „Chemie-Nobelpreisträger Paul J. Crutzen über Geo-Engineering als Notbremse bei der Klimaerwärmung. – 2006 produzierte Paul J. Crutzen Science Fiction im buchstäblichen Sinn. Der niederländische Wissenschaftler schlug vor, Sulfatpartikel in die Stratosphäre zu befördern, um die Sonneneinstrahlung auf die Erde zu dämpfen und so die Temperatur um 0,5 Grad Celsius zu senken. Seitdem wird verstärkt Maßnahmen des »Geo-Engineerings« diskutiert – dabei geht es um Strategien, die Erderwärmung durch technische Innovationen einzuschränken oder aufzuhalten. Kürzlich hielt Crutzen den Eröffnungsvortrag auf einem Symposium über die »Grenzen menschlichen Eingreifens in die Natur« in Hamburg. Folke Havekost sprach mit ihm.“
EN „Paul J. Crutzen, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry on geoengineering as an emergency brake on global warming. – 2006 Paul J. Crutzen produced science fiction in the literal sense. The Dutch scientists proposed to transport sulfate particles into the stratosphere to absorb the solar radiation on the earth and thus to reduce the temperature by 0.5 degrees Celsius. Since then more measures of „geoengineering„ is being discussed – this is about strategies to reduce global warming through technological innovations or arrest. Crutzen recently gave the opening lecture at a symposium about the „limits of human intervention in nature ‚in Hamburg. Folke Havekost spoke with him.„
Update on SPICE-Project: Experiment delayed
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Petition expresses opposition on CE.
The Office of Technology Assessment at the German Federal Parliament (TAB) has commissioned a report on the regulation and assessment of climate engineering.
„Das Max-Planck-Forum erörtert Für und Wider der derzeitigen Möglichkeiten der Geo-Ingenieure und fragt nach den aktuellen Handlungsspielräumen. Brauchen wir GeoEngineering wirklich oder ist es nur ein bequemer Ausweg für Politiker, das globale Klimaproblem ohne schwierige diplomatische Verhandlungen in den Griff zu bekommen?“
Podiumsdiskussionsgäste: Prof. Dr. Meinrat Andreae, Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz
Dr. Hauke Schmidt, Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Carl Friedrich Gethmann, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Essen-Duisburg
Article on needs for more and better information on the pros and cons. Government and scientists need more research to achieve better information.
„The Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, named atmospheric scientist PD Dr. Mark Lawrence (42) scientific director. […] Mark Lawrence will lead the IASS research cluster Sustainable Interactions with the Atmosphere (SIWA), which focuses on developing a sustainability-driven approach to managing human influence on the earth’s atmospheric composition with negligible or controllable short and long term impact on the climate, our health and ecosystems. His research at IASS will examine the relationship between air pollution and climate change in the age of urbanization, as well as the opportunities and risks presented by climate engineering, targeted intervention in the atmosphere’s chemical and physical processes as a means of reducing climate change.“
See the English press release under ‚read more‘. For German version klick here.
„The Oxford Geoengineering Programme, a new interdisciplinary initiative of the Oxford Martin School, has issued a press release to call for an internationally accepted code of conduct for geoengineering research.“
Bodansky, Daniel (September 2011): “Governing Climate Engineering: Scenarios for Analysis” Discussion Paper 2011-47, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Project on Climate Agreements.
Discussion paper with analysis of potential CE deployment scenarios.