„In a move which has been Christened the “Berlin Declaration,” a leading scientist at the Climate Engineering Conference 2014 (CEC 14) held in the German capital has issued a call for the formation for the first proper framework to guide large-scale geoengineering projects aimed at altering the earth’s atmosphere.“
„For years, Dr.[nbsp]Ken Caldeira’s[nbsp]interest in planet hacking made[nbsp]him[nbsp]a curious outlier in his field. A highly respected atmospheric scientist, he also[nbsp]describes himself as a „reluctant advocate“ of researching[nbsp]solar[nbsp]geoengineering—that is,[nbsp]large-scale[nbsp]efforts to artificially[nbsp]manage the amount of[nbsp]sunlight entering the atmosphere, in order[nbsp]to cool off[nbsp]the globe.“
Media responses to climate engineerin conference CEC14 in Berlin 18.-21.08.2014 in Berlin/Germany.
„[…] some reflections why the world should have less, NOT more, experimentation of our climate.“
„Lasers from space to make rain and take apart greenhouse gasses. [nbsp]They’re definitely good examples of why space matters, if they work.“
Rau, Greg H. (2014): Enhancing the Ocean’s Role in CO2 Mitigation. In Bill Freedman (Ed.): Global Environmental Change. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 817–824. 10.1007/978-94-007-5784-4_54
„Ways of safely enhancing or augmenting this carbon uptake and storage therefore have the potential to contribute significantly to atmospheric CO2 stabilization efforts. Various physical, chemical, biological, and hybrid strategies of increasing ocean CO2 uptake or reducing CO2 leakage have been proposed.“
German newspaper on Berlin CEC14 conference.
Bala, Govindasamy (2014): Space Sunshades and Climate Change. In Bill Freedman (Ed.): Global Environmental Change. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 803–815. DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5784-4_25
„In this section, the various space-based SRM methods which are likely to reduce the incoming solar radiation uniformly across the globe are discussed.“
„One suggested that a satellite equipped with a high-powered laser could grow clouds in the atmosphere below; the other proposed lasers that would blast greenhouse gases from orbit to effectively erase the agents of climate change.“
Ma, Xiaoyan; Yu, Fangqun; Quaas, Johannes (2014): Reassessment of satellite-based estimate of aerosol climate forcing. In J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., pp. n/a. DOI 10.1002/2014JD021670.
„Our study indicates that the derived forcings are sensitive to the anthropogenic AOD fraction and its spatial distribution but insensitive to the temporal resolution used to obtain the regression coefficients, i.e. monthly or seasonal-based.“
