TheEngineer: Leading wave energy pioneer Prof Stephen Salter
„Prof Stephen Salter, technical adviser at Aquamarine Power, believes geoengineering could help to mitigate some of the most pressing effects of climate change.“
CO2-removal News
Final Symposium: Marsilius Project „The Global Governance of Climate Engineering”
27.-28.09.2012, Heidelberg/Germany
Final symposium of the interdisciplinary Marsilius Project in Heidelberg. For participation send an email to CE-Symp@eco.uni-heidelberg.de.
Talk/Lecture: Climate engineering: Challenges to international law and potential responses
01.10.2012, UCLA, Los Angeles/USA
„Despite large uncertainties in the characteristics, environmental effects, and risks of specific potential interventions, certain clear and emerging characteristics of these technologies suggest broad outlines of the policy and political risks they pose, the requirements for effective governance, and priority near-term steps to limit risks and learn more.“
Bewick, R.; Sanchez, J.P; McInnes, C.R (2012): Gravitationally bound geoengineering dust shade at the inner Lagrange point
Bewick, R.; Sanchez, J.P; McInnes, C.R (2012): Gravitationally bound geoengineering dust shade at the inner Lagrange point. In: Advances in Space Research 50 (10), pp. 1405–1410. DOI 10.1016/j.asr.2012.07.008
„This paper presents a novel method of space-based geoengineering which uses the mass of a captured near Earth asteroid to gravitationally anchor a cloud of unprocessed dust in the vicinity of the L1 position to reduce the level of solar insolation at Earth.“
NewScientist: Can geoengineering avert climate chaos?
Nonfree article on CE.
Peoples World: As ice melts, geoengineering gets a less frosty reception
CE to tackle melting of the arctic. „Though initially suggested as a ‚fringe idea,‘ it was later considered potentially viable, but only as an accompanying strategy to a better solution. Now, scientists are looking at the technology more seriously.“
ThinkLong Blog: Geoengineering Research: Walking on thin ice
Post by Tim Kruger in the Oxford Martin School Blog. „We need to define what that edge is now, before experimentation takes place.“
Leal-Arcas, Rafael; Filis, Andrew (2012): Geoengineering a Future for Humankind. Some Technical and Ethical Considerations
Leal-Arcas, Rafael; Filis, Andrew (2012): Geoengineering a Future for Humankind. Some Technical and Ethical Considerations. In: Carbon and Climate Law Review (CCLR) 6 (2), pp. 128–148
„Clear rules in relation to how these strategies and techniques ought to be governed are in urgent need. Rules should not be limited to the governance aspects, but should also provide for the commercial use of geoengineering.“
Permaculture Research Institute of Australia: Unintended Hazards of Geoengineering
„Reducing the solar radiation that reaches Earth will have potentially significant consequences beyond limiting the mean temperature of the planet; it may reduce annual rainfall, especially in the Americas and northern Eurasia.“