„I do not think that geo-engineering is the answer to climate change, but I do not think that ignoring its presence is helping us to fight climate change.[nbsp] By ignoring that this very real conversation is happening makes us a different kind of climate change denier.“
Roman, Joe; Estes, James A.; Morissette, Lyne; Smith, Craig; Costa, Daniel; McCarthy, James et al. (2014): Whales as marine ecosystem engineers. In Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, pp.[nbsp]140703070154008. DOI: 10.1890/130220
Not common CE but connected to maritim CDR. „Future changes in the structure and function of the world’s oceans can be expected with the restoration of great whale populations.“
Physicians and Scientists for Global Responsibility (2014): An overview of Geo-engineering and Bio-geo-engineering. New Zealand Charitable Trust.
„This is where geo-engineering and bio-geo-engineering13 propose remedial actions. As with all new technologies, science has to evaluate the ideas and their practical implementation which revolves around technical feasibility and cost, and more importantly around issues of ethics: governance, justice, morality and the very role humanity should, could and will play on Earth.“
Benson, Sally M. (2014): Negative-emissions insurance. In Science 344 (6191), p.[nbsp]1431. DOI: 10.1126/science.1257423.
„Among the most promising CDR methods are reforestation, afforestation (planting new forests), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). However, for BECCS strategies to succeed, major hurdles must be overcome.“
„Geo-engineering techniques have often been dismissed as pure science fiction, but more recently those previously against the idea of geo-engineering seem prepared to cautiously consider it as part of the solution.“
„This thirst for cross-disciplinary exchange has been evident to me for several years in dialogue around this topic, and I was reminded of this again at the “Great Debate on Geoengineering” at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, held in Vienna on May 1st, 2014.“
Press release for Barrett, Scott; et al. (2014). „Injecting particles into the stratosphere to shade and cool the Earth will never stop climate change. This is the shocking claim made in the July issue of Nature Climate Change by an international group of prominent scientists, including Dutchmen Marten Scheffer from Wageningen University and Aart de Zeeuw from Tilburg University.“
„Faced with roadblocks to reducing greenhouse gas emissions via globally meaningful regulations or carbon pricing schemes, some scientists say it’s time to consider even more drastic human intervention.“
Article on global catastrophic risks with a paragraph on CE. „Our conversations have led us to believe that there is significant scientific interest in conducting geoengineering research and that funding is an obstacle, but, as with biosecurity, we do not have a very detailed sense of what we might fund.“
Call for a session on SRM at the AGU Fall Meeting. „This session provides a venue to discuss various carbon dioxide removal techniques, including bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration, land management (afforestation, reforestation, etc.), and ocean iron fertilization.“
