„One pioneering scientist not only thinks it’s possible, but given the plan’s relatively low annual price tag of just $10 billion, thinks there’s a chance that a country — or perhaps an industry or individual company — will attempt the geoengineering project in our lifetime.“
„This interview was conducted for the ‘The Global Governance Futures 2025’ programme which brings together young professionals to look ahead and recommend ways to address global challenges.“
„If it seems like there’s a technological fix, people lose interest in helping“
On AI, viruses and CE. „They don’t look like Guardians Of The Galaxy-style superheroes. But the founders of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk may be all that stands between us and global catastrophe“
Article presenting the study Kravitz, Ben; et al. (2014). „A new study shows that if only moderate solar geoengineering was deployed everyone would gain something, with all regions of the world benefiting from lower temperatures than those predicted for a high-carbon dioxide scenario without such action.“
Jack Stilgoe (2014): Responsible innovation in geoengineering. Experiment earth. Routledge.
Upcoming publication. „This book takes a critical stance on existing assumptions about ethical issues in science, giving students, researchers and the general reader interested in the place of science in contemporary society a compelling framework for future thinking and discussion.“
Methane, volcanoes, and the end of the world – Guest Post – Duncan McLaren – University of Lancaster. „The idea of ‘climate emergency’ has been a hot one in the ethics of geoengineering for a number of years, and got a lot of attention last week at the climate engineering conference (CEC14) in Berlin.“
„In Berlin last week, the conference ‘Climate Engineering 2014: Critical Global Discussions’ attracted the largest single gathering of researchers who scrutinise a range of technologies for deliberately engineering the Earth’s climate.“
„It was a great story, writes Andrew Lockley – scientists signing up to a ‚Berlin Declaration‘ imposing an effective ‚test ban‘ on outdoor geoengineering experiments. Except there was no declaration, and scientists never agreed to it. The world’s media got it completely wrong, yet the mud will stick – and may cause severe harm in the fight against climate change.“
„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.“
