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Vuuren, Detlef P.; Stehfest, Elke (2013): If climate action becomes urgent: the importance of response times for various climate strategies

Vuuren, Detlef P.; Stehfest, Elke (2013): If climate action becomes urgent: the importance of response times for various climate strategies. In Climatic Change. DOI 10.1007/s10584-013-0769-5.

"A key question for climate policy in general, but even more in the case a rapid response is needed, is: what are the characteristic response times of the response options, such as rapid mitigation or solar radiation management (SRM)?"

15.03.2013

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David W Keith and Andy Parker (2013): The fate of an engineered planet

David W Keith and Andy Parker (2013): The fate of an engineered planet; In: Scientific American, 308:34-36. DOI 10.1038/scientificamerican0113-34

"During the long economic boom ignited by the robotics revolution of the 2020s, the population became ever more concentrated in wealthy megacities, and vat-grown genetically modified foods became the norm. Most people lost any meaningful connection to nature: Who needs the real thing when you have a computer-generated sensory facsimile, complete with designer drugs to complete the experience?"

10.01.2013

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Ehrlich, P. R.; Ehrlich, A. H. (2013): Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?

Ehrlich, P. R.; Ehrlich, A. H. (2013): Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided? In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1754), pp. 20122845.

Article about "numerous collapses of civilization" and a paragraph on CE in section 4.

08.01.2013

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the guardian: Rogue geoengineering could 'hijack' world's climate

"Techniques aimed at averting global warming could lead to an unpredictable international crisis, a report has warned"

13.11.2012

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Huffington Post: The New Politics of Climate Change

Ten thesis on climate politics with one on CE. "10. Tragically, geo-engineering may be unavoidable, but ill-considered application of it must be resisted."

06.08.2012

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Hartzell-Nichols, Lauren (2012): Precaution and Solar Radiation Management

Hartzell-Nichols, Lauren (2012): Precaution and Solar Radiation Management. In: Ethics, Policy & Environment 15 (2), S. 158–171

"This paper explores what precaution implies about the status of solar radiation management."

24.07.2012

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Overcoming Bias Blog: The geoengineering double catastrophe

Blog article about the catastrophic risk of CE plus social collapse.

03.12.2011

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Wirtschafts Blatt: "The 2-degree target in only the best of all worlds accessible" (German Language)

Article about a German news show with Mojib Latif as an climate expert. He names CE as "harakiri".

# Events and conference summaries

17.11.2011

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Conference Report: Prof. Ted Parson: Heating up the study of climate engineering

Short report and comment to the speech of Ted Parsons at the International Law Workshop at Michigan Law School.

16.10.2011