The Economist: Geoengineering. If all else fails
„Man-made global cooling is scary, but may become necessary“
„Man-made global cooling is scary, but may become necessary“
„The Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment asked one of its researchers to answer the question: “Who is saying what about the likelihood of staying below a 2 degrees Celsius rise above pre-industrial atmospheric temperatures?” The results beg the question, should researchers and policy-makers be thinking more seriously and openly about climate engineering research?“
Hope, Mat (2015): Impact assessment. Geoengineering challenges. In Nature Climate change 5 (12), p.[nbsp]1027. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2886[nbsp]
„Geoengineering is moving from modelling to field experiments, with potentially significant environmental, social and ethical impacts. Impact assessments are normally undertaken to determine the risks of such activities. But new research suggests international law is currently insufficiently tailored to the particular assessment challenges posed by geoengineering“
Article on responses to climate change, including CE. „[…] we invited authors, experts and activists to weigh in on the 2-degree target. What’s at stake? And how can we actually get there?“
Cao, Long; Gao, Chao-Chao; Zhao, Li-Yun (2015): Geoengineering. Basic science and ongoing research efforts in China. In Advances in Climate Change Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.accre.2015.11.002
„Next, we introduce an ongoing geoengineering research project in China that is supported by National Key Basic Research Program. This research project, being the first coordinated geoengineering research program in China, will systematically investigate the physical mechanisms, climate impacts, and risk and governance of a few targeted geoengineering schemes. It is expected that this research program will help us gain a deep understanding of the physical science underlying geoengineering schemes and the impacts of geoengineering on global climate, in particular, on the Asia monsoon region.“
Video of the Panel discussion on Hippocratic Oath by the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment.
On Tim Flannery’s „third way“. „Greenhouse gas levels are on track to exceed the worst-case scenario. But, as world leaders meet in Paris for the UN climate summit this month, Tim Flannery argues that there are still realistic grounds for hope“
On bio-CDR in soil. „Despite the fact that the United Nations General Assembly declared 2015 to be “the international year of soils,” a global soil carbon sequestration campaign — one that recognizes direct links between climate mitigation, regenerative agriculture and food security — rarely ranks at the top of any high level accords, or even conversations.“
„One the measures that came into question recently is geoengineering. This type of engineering uses several technologies in order to alter the global climate.“
„With every plan for geoengineering the idea can be picked apart and we can theorize as to the positive or negative repercussions. On the whole the risk is that geoengineering is totally untested, but more worrisome still untestable. As we only have the earth as a model we cannot test the theories of geoengineering without full planetary deployment.“