Nextbigfuture Blog: Scaling and testing geoengineering
Blog article on scale of CE and testing methods.
Blog article on scale of CE and testing methods.
„Imagine the trouble that would ensue if China resorted to desperate measures to cool its climate but the result was that the Indian Monsoon suddenly failed.“
Findings from IAGP project online available. „Integrating physical, engineering and social sciences to construct a framework for assessing effectiveness and side effects of geoengineering proposals.“
Call for abstracts for the EGU Assembly. „This session will present new findings from studies involving Stratospheric Aerosol Injections, Marine Sky Brightening and Cirrus Cloud Thinning. Contributions from the Geoengineering Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) and other climate model and impact studies are welcome.“
„Is this an approach we should seriously consider in preference to reducing the dependence our economy and way of life has upon carbon dispersal? Does it make more sense to reject the development and scaling of provably safe technologies and instead put our trust in what might be a reckless, irreversible gamble?“
„Schemes to tackle climate change could prove disastrous for billions of people, but might be required for the good of the planet, scientists say.“
„Three UK projects – IAGP, led by the University of Leeds; SPICE, led by the University of Bristol; and CGG, led by the University of Oxford have concluded that geo-engineering may not be a great way to fix the planet’s climate.“
„But ‘geoengineers’ say urgent nature of climate change means research must continue into controversial technology to combat rising temperatures“
„Three projects funded by the British government since 2010 to study the deliberate tinkering with the planet to counteract climate change, known as geoengineering, are soon to end. Today scientists presenting at the Royal Society in London announced some of their findings, took stock of some of their setbacks and laid out the way forward.“
The German theater collective Rimini Protokoll perfomrs a climate conference with some discussion on CE.