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Burns, William C. G.; Strauss, Andrew L. (2013): Climate change geoengineering. Philosophical perspectives, legal issues, and governance frameworks. (forthcoming)

Burns, William C. G.; Strauss, Andrew L. (2013): Climate change geoengineering. Philosophical perspectives, legal issues, and governance frameworks. (forthcoming) ISBN 9781107023932

Book forthcoming with legal issues as major topic. „Offers diverse perspectives from leading environmentalists, international lawyers and students of ethics and climate change“

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17. Juni 2013

# Peer-reviewed Publications

Climate Science & Policy: Geoengineering: a panacea or a false solution?

„We talked about this controversial issue with Ken Caldeira, a senior member of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology and a professor at Stanford’s Environmental Earth System Sciences department.“

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14. Juni 2013

# Media

RTCC: Scientists warn earth cooling proposals are no climate “silver bullet”

Article discussion some arguments on CE in general. „If Bill Gates was so inclined, he could reduce the world’s temperature by one degree.“

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14. Juni 2013

# Media

R&D: Questions rise about seeding for ocean carbon dioxide sequestration

Media response to[nbsp]Ingall, Ellery D.; et al. (2013). „A new study on the feeding habits of ocean microbes calls into question the potential use of algal blooms to trap carbon dioxide and offset rising global levels.„

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13. Juni 2013

# Media

Ingall, Ellery D.; et al. (2013): Role of biogenic silica in the removal of iron from the Antarctic seas

Ingall, Ellery D.; Diaz, Julia M.; Longo, Amelia F.; Oakes, Michelle; Finney, Lydia; Vogt, Stefan et al. (2013): Role of biogenic silica in the removal of iron from the Antarctic seas. In Nat Comms 4. DOI 10.1038/ncomms2981.

Study connected to iron fertilization. „Here, based on analysis of living phytoplankton in the coastal seas of West Antarctica, we present a new pathway for iron removal from marine systems involving structural incorporation of reduced, organic iron into biogenic silica.“

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13. Juni 2013

# Peer-reviewed Publications

Talk/Lecture: The International Governance of Climate Engineering

28.06.2013, Instiute for European Studies, Brussels

„This policy forum will present and discuss options for developing arrangements for the international governance of climate engineering based on a study for the German Federal Environment Agency led by Ecologic Institute.“

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13. Juni 2013

# Calls

San Francisco Chronicle (SFGate): One scientists battle to combat climate change (updated)

Updated portrait of Ken Caldeira formerly named ‚Warning from climate science front lines‘. „He and his research team were pumping the equivalent of antacid over a patch of corals that emerges from the sea at low tide, attempting to re-create the conditions before carbon dioxide emissions from cars and factories began altering ocean chemistry.“

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12. Juni 2013

# Media

Proelß, Alexander (2013): Climate engineering and international law. Challenges for scientists and scholars

Proelß, Alexander (2013): Climate engineering and international law. Challenges for scientists and scholars. Potsdam (EuTRACE Journal, 2).

„The essay by Alexander Proelss “climate engineering and international law: challenges for scientists and scholars” discusses if it is admissible to address the issue of climate engineering (CE) from a legal point of view.“

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11. Juni 2013

# Peer-reviewed Publications

Hamblin, Jacob Darwin (2013): Arming Mother Nature. The birth of catastrophic environmentalism

Hamblin, Jacob Darwin (2013): Arming Mother Nature. The birth of catastrophic environmentalism. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

The book is linked to the debate of weaponization of CE.

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11. Juni 2013

# Peer-reviewed Publications