„I am not at this point confident that climate-engineering would be of value in alleviating our concerns, especially given our history on environmental interventions. The current political and legal environment appears to commit us to trying to control carbon dioxide emissions.“
Curvelo, Paula (2015): Geoengineering dreams. In: Angela Guimaraes Pereira und Silvio Funtowicz (Hg.): Science, Philosophy and Sustainability. The End of the Cartesian dream. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis (Routledge Explorations in Sustainability and Governance), S. 114–132.
„In fact, as we will see next, the attempt to untangle the abiguities associated with the term through the identification of this key characteristics[nbsp] of geoengineering action generates even more obscurity in an already clouded field.“
Sustainable Shipping Initiative (2015): Signals of Change. Looking at the potential impact of emerging signals of change on the future of sustainable shipping.
Report with one page (p. 23) on CE. „If geoengineering starts to gain mainstream acceptance, there may be the opportunity, or even expectation, for shipping industry players to invest in studies and innovative implementation of these solutions.“
German newspaper article on CE.
„Net zero emissions by 2050 makes assumptions about new technologies which may not be realistic – The credibility of Bioenergy [&] CCS as a climate change mitigation option is unproven – Huge upscaling efforts in BECCS will be needed to get to net negative emissions by 2050“
„Injecting gases into the sky to reflect sunlight should be a last resort“
Including audio and transcript. „A panel of speakers at this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Jose tossed around a few of the challenges.“
Radio broadcast on CE including an interview with Tim Kruger.
Wibeck, Victoria; Hansson, Anders; Anshelm, Jonas (2015): Questioning the technological fix to climate change – Lay sense-making of geoengineering in Sweden. In: Energy Research [&] Social Science 7 (0), S. 23–30. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2015.03.001.
„This paper explores how Swedish laypeople make sense of emerging ideas of the large-scale deliberate technical manipulation of the global climate, known as geoengineering (GE). The paper is based on semi-structured focus group interviews with open-ended questions, allowing participants to express their spontaneous thoughts about GE.“
Cunha, Daniel (2015): The Anthropocene as Fetishism. In: Mediations 28 (2), S. 65–77.
„In fact, this means taking the promise of the Anthropocene very seriously, that is, Man should take conscious control of planetary material cycles, extend the terrain of the political hitherto left to the blind mechanics of nature and, in capitalism, to commodity fetishism.64 And this not only because the productive forces developed by capitalism allow it — although up to now we do it without conscious social control — but also because it might be necessary.“
