Geoengineering Politics Blog: Stringent Conditions for Treating SRM as a Climate Emergency Response?
„Under what conditions is it appropriate to treat SRM as a possible response option in the event of a climate emergency?“
„Under what conditions is it appropriate to treat SRM as a possible response option in the event of a climate emergency?“
Germanwatch (2014): Climate Dilemma – A short contribution to the climate engineering conference 2014 (position paper).
German NGO on CE.
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Wong, Pak-Hang (2014): Maintenance Required: The Ethics of Geoengineering and Post-Implementation Scenarios. In: Ethics, Policy [&] Environment 17 (2), S. 186–191. DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2014.926090.
„I argue that a preoccupation with (i) and (ii) may lead to an oversight of post-implementation scenarios (PISs), which introduce different ethical issues relevant to decision-making on geoengineering. More specifically, I use the requirement of maintenance for geoengineering as an example to draw attention to PISs, and to illustrate the limit of the existing discussion in the ethics of geoengineering.“
Bauman, Susie; Costa, Matthew; Fong, Michael; House, Brian; Perez, Elena; Tan, Maxine et al. (2014): Augmenting the Biological Pump: The Shortcomings of Geoengineered Upwelling. In: oceanog 27 (3), S. 17–23. DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2014.79.
Discussion paper on artificial upwelling. „A recent example is the proposal by theoretical neurobiologist W.H. Calvin (2013) to construct a massive array of push-pull pump systems to enhance the ocean’s natural biological pump to sequester atmospheric CO2.“
Zhuo, Zhihong; Gao, Chaochao; Pan, Yuqing (2014): Proxy evidence for China’s monsoon precipitation response to volcanic aerosols over the past seven centuries. In J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 119 (11), pp. 6638–6652. DOI 10.1002/2013JD021061 .
Volcanic eruption study with link to stratospheric CE. „Our findings illustrate the important role stratospheric aerosols have played in altering China’s precipitation during the summer monsoon season and can shed new light on the possible effects that stratospheric geoengineering may have on China’s precipitation.“
Press release in response to the latest German TA report: Caviezel, Claudio; Revermann, Christoph (2014): Climate Engineering.
Kravitz, Ben; Robock, Alan; Boucher, Olivier (2014): Future Directions in Simulating Solar Geoengineering. In Eos Trans. AGU 95 (31), p. 280–280. DOI 10.1002/2014EO310010.
„The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) created a framework of geoengineering simulations in climate models that have been performed by modeling centers throughout the world“
German media response to Dorn, R. I. (2014) and the effect on olivine weathering.
„Many of the world’s major scientific establishments are discussing the concept of modifying the Earth’s climate to offset global warming“
„All these discussions point to the urgent need to ramp up approaches to climate change that increase mitigation and adaptation efforts while introducing governance for geo-engineering.“