CO₂-removal News

Call for Abstracts: Climate Justice and Geoengineering

Deadline: 02.02.2014

„The editors are seeking chapters that will put the justice issues raised by various aspects of climate engineering into dialogue with the justice issues raised by alternative climate strategies.[nbsp] […] Placing the ethical issues raised by specific geoengineering proposals into dialogue with the existing challenges of climate justice will provide both a more balanced and more useful evaluation of climate engineering.“

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Motherboard: Planet Hackers

„The scientists had whipped themselves into a frenzy. Gathered in a stuffy conference room in the bowels of a hotel in Berlin, scores of respected climate researchers, mostly middle-aged, mostly white, and mostly men, were arguing about a one-page document that had tentatively been[nbsp]christened the[nbsp] ​“Berlin Declaration.”[nbsp]It proposed ground rules for conducting experiments to explore how we might artificially cool the Earth—planet hacking, basically.“

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Dixon, Tim; et al. (2014): Update on the London Protocol – Developments on Transboundary CCS and on Geoengineering

Dixon, Tim; Garrett, Justine; Kleverlaan, Edward (2014): Update on the London Protocol – Developments on Transboundary CCS and on Geoengineering. In Energy Procedia 63, pp. 6623–6628. DOI 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.698.

„This paper reviews the recent regulatory developments relating to transboundary carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) activities and regulation of ocean fertilization and other marine geoengineering activities arising from the work and agreements under the London Protocol from 2010 to 2013.“

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Call for Abstracts: Dealing with Climate Change. Calculus & Catastrophe in the Age of Simulation

Deadline 31.01.2015

Conference 25-26.06.2015. „We invite scholars from media [&] culture studies, environmental studies, geography, history [&] philosophy of sciences and the humanities to present and discuss climate change and its simulation paradigms in its present and historical dimensions. We invite concrete case studies that deal with aspects of the outlined scenarios as well theoretical contributions that question the cultural and epistemological conditions and effects of a simulation-based order of knowledge.“

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The Conversation: ‘Climate hacking’ would be easy – that doesn’t mean we should do it

„There are two problems with this argument. The first is that we already have an affordable solution with a relatively well-understood outcome: reducing our carbon emissions. The second is that geoengineering itself is fraught with danger and that, worryingly, the most dangerous version, called solar radiation management, is also the most popular with those exploring this field.“

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Fleming, James Rodger (2014): Picturing Climate Control: Visualizing the Unimaginable

Fleming, James Rodger (2014): Picturing Climate Control:[nbsp]Visualizing the Unimaginable. In Thomas Nocke, Birgit Schneider (Eds.): Image Politics of Climate Change. Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations. Berlin: de Gruyter (Image), pp. 345–362.

„This article examines the visualizations of climate control form the late nineteenth century to recent and current practices. It is a contribution to cultural and media studies paying special attantion to visual imaginaris […}.“

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