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The ‘Lomborg gambit’ and why the allure of solar geoengineering must be...
First time here? Read our "what is climate engineering" page. Bjørn Lomborg claimed in 2009 that cutting greenhouse gas emissions would not succeed in halting climate change – and put up posters and...
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Atmosphere of Hope reviewed- Holly J. Buck
First time here? Read our "what is climate engineering" page. Is staying below a 2C rise in temperature is a realistic or fantastic target? There’s been talk about this lately, in Nature and on this...
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Why we shouldn’t be in a hurry to redefine ‘climate engineering’ – Duncan...
First time here? Read our "what is climate engineering" page. Several climate engineering researchers have suggested alternative ways we might categorize different geoengineering techniques....
View ArticleAfter Paris, time for an honest conversation – Simon Nicholson
In this brief video message, Simon Nicholson, Co-Director of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, argues that after CoP 21 in Paris, we must have more honest assessment of goals and the tools...
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Who May Geoengineer: Self-defense, Civil Disobedience, and Revolution (Part...
First time here? Read our "what is climate engineering" page. Much of the discussion about the appropriateness or usefulness of geoengineering—particularly dangerous and risky geoengineering...
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Forum Discussion- Rhode Island H 7578: The Climate Geoengineering Act of 2016
First time here? Read our "what is climate engineering" page. In 2015 and 2016, a bill was introduced in the Rhode Island House of Representatives to regulate climate geoengineering — an attempt...
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What a “post-truth” media ecology means for climate engineering research –...
First time here? Read our "what is climate engineering" page. In 2016, the Oxford English Dictionary named “post-truth” its word of the year, marking a turning point in the decades-long...
View ArticleA Response to “The Uninhabitable Earth”
David Wallace-Wells’ new article, “The Uninhabitable Earth,” suggests that it’s game over for the planet. He tells us that climate change will render large swaths of the planet uninhabitable, and that...
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Evoking equity as a rationale for solar geoengineering research? Scrutinizing...
A post written by Jane Flegal and Aarti Gupta, summarizing a recent paper in International Environmental Agreements Solar geoengineering ideas remain largely confined to the imagination, with very...
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Power and Responsibility in a Broken World
Everyone knows that with great power comes great responsibility. Most also agree that if you break something you have to take responsibility for it. In the Anthropocene, it seems (a particular section...
View ArticleMedia coverage of NAS “Climate Intervention” reports
On February 10, The National Research Council wing of the The National Academies of Sciences released two reports, Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration, and Climate...
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Civil Society statements on release of NAS “Climate Intervention” reports
On February 10, The National Research Council wing of the The National Academies of Sciences released two reports, Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration, and Climate...
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Geocon, investigating the idea of cloud brightening – Karolina Sobecka
First time here? Read our "what is climate engineering" page. The first time I failed at explaining this project I was in rural Connecticut, in pitch dark stumbling through what I thought was someone...
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Climate engineering as a Right-Wing Technology, and Other Stories – Holly Buck
First time here? Read our "what is climate engineering" page. “If there is such a thing as a right-wing technology, geoengineering is it,” Clive Hamilton writes in a Feb. 12 New York Times op-ed....
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The Limitations of a Human Rights Framework – Patrick Taylor Smith
First time here? Read our "what is climate engineering" page. Brian Citro, in his provocative and well-argued article “A Role for Human Rights in the Climate Engineering Debate,” argues that human...
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Measuring NGO Response to NAS Climate Intervention Reports – Rachael Somerville
First time here? Read our "what is climate engineering" page. When I ask fellow college students for their views on climate engineering, I’m met with blank stares—even from Environmental Science...
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phone chat: Dan Sarewitz and Jane Flegal
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The Planet Remade: Reviewed – Duncan McLaren
First time here? Read our "what is climate engineering" page. In this ambitious book Oliver Morton attempts a tricky task: simultaneously introducing and examining the scope of climate...
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What of 2C? – Aaron Kressig
First time here? Read our "what is climate engineering" page. The Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment asked one of its researchers to answer the question: “Who is saying what about the likelihood...
View ArticleShould geoengineering be considered a global public good?
Prakash Kashwan (University of Connecticut) “Geoengineering to be regulated as a public good” – this is the first among the five key “Oxford Principles” for the governance of geoengineering. However,...
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