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Peer-reviewed Publications

Hourdequin, Marion (2015): The ethics of geoengineering

Hourdequin, Marion (2015): The ethics of geoengineering. In The Philosophers‘ Magazine (71), pp.[nbsp]44–50. DOI: 10.5840/tpm201571101[nbsp]

„What is distinctive about contemporary climate change is that it is human caused. significant in magnitude, and exceptionally rapid in relation to past climatic shifts. Not only does this pose challenges to human society; it is transforming ecosystems and outpacing the ability of individual species to adapt to changing conditions.“

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dpa international: Plan B: Hacking the climate

„In a laboratory in the US Pacific north-west, scientists are working on what could one day become a new, and controversial, weapon to fight global warming: clouds. Misting ocean clouds with saltwater could multiply the water droplets inside, the theory goes, „brightening“ clouds to make them reflect more sunlight away from the earth.“

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Quaas, Johannes (2015): Approaches to Observe Anthropogenic Aerosol-Cloud Interactions

Quaas, Johannes (2015): Approaches to Observe Anthropogenic Aerosol-Cloud Interactions. In Curr Clim Change Rep 1 (4), pp.[nbsp]297–304. DOI: 10.1007/s40641-015-0028-0[nbsp]

„Anthropogenic aerosol particles exert an—quantitatively very uncertain—effective radiative forcing due to aerosol-cloud interactions via an immediate altering of cloud albedo on the one hand and via rapid adjustments by alteration of cloud processes and by changes in thermodynamic profiles on the other hand. Large variability in cloud cover and properties and the therefore low signal-to-noise ratio for aerosol-induced perturbations hamper the identification of effects in observations.“

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San Diego Union-Tribune: Scripps scientists talk about climate change

Interview with Richard Somerville, Lisa Levin, and Margaret Leinen on climate change and CE. „Thousands of world leaders and scientists will meet in Paris next month for the United Nations conference on climate change. A key goal of the summit is to reach agreement on limiting or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Among those attending the Paris conference will be Margaret Leinen, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Scripps scientists Richard Somerville and Lisa Levin.“

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Lockley, Andrew (2015): Deliberate Destruction of Planets and Biospheres

Lockley, Andrew (2015): Deliberate Destruction of Planets and Biospheres. In JBIS (Journal of the British Interplanetary Society) (68), pp.[nbsp]150–152.

„In order to study the conduct, observation, or defence associated with such attacks, a range of potentially practical weapon and defence technologies are discussed. These are: altering the radiation budget of a planet so as to substantially change its temperature; introducing invasive species to transform the biogeochemistry; and using orbital perturbations of comets and asteroids to cause collisions, or to move the planet to an unstable or uninhabitable orbit.“

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