May 2013

14.05.2013

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grist: Geoengineering research: Never or now?

About the Caldeira/Hamilton debate.

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13.05.2013

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The Conversation: Carbon dioxide hits a new high, but geo-engineering won’t help

Argumentation against CE as a way out of a 400 ppm CO2 world.

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11.05.2013

# New Publications

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Weitzman, Martin L. (2013): A Voting Architecture for the Governance of Free-Driver Externalities, with Application to Geoengineering. Discussion Paper

Weitzman, Martin L. (2013): A Voting Architecture for the Governance of Free-Driver Externalities, with Application to Geoengineering. Discussion Paper. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School (Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, 55).

Economic rational choice paper. "This paper develops the main features of a “free driver”externality in a simple model based on the asymmetric consequences of type-I and type-II errors."

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11.05.2013

# New Publications

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Gardiner, Stephen M. (2013): Why geoengineering is not a ‘global public good’, and why it is ethically misleading to frame it as one

Gardiner, Stephen M. (2013): Why geoengineering is not a ‘global public good’, and why it is ethically misleading to frame it as one. In: Climatic Change. DOI 10.1007/s10584-013-0764-x

"This paper argues that the paradigm example of geoengineering—stratospheric sulfate injection (hereafter ‘SSI’)—does not fit the canonical technical definition of a global public good, and that more relaxed versions are unhelpful."

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10.05.2013

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SPY Ghana: Geoengineering Africa’s Climate Change

"Geoengineering would have been more interesting, if it is artificial solution to common environmental issues, such as floods, erosions, drought, blizzards, avalanche, storms, etc. But Geoengineering is not."

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10.05.2013

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Scientific American: Soils Cannot Lock Away Black Carbon

"Climate scientists may have to rethink some of their old assumptions about carbon. US and European researchers have just established that black carbon, soot and biochar – the burnt remains from countless forest fires – doesn't stay in the soil indefinitely."

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10.05.2013

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Nature (correspondence): Climate mitigation: An open dialogue on solar engineering

Answer to Clive Hamilton from John Shepherd, Berhanu Abegaz, and Jane Long.

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10.05.2013

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Earth Island Journal: Hack the Sky? (Debate)

Debate between Clive Hamilton ("The New Sorcerer’s Apprentices") and Ken Caldeira ("We need some Symptomatic Relief").

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10.05.2013

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Earth Island Journal: If We Could Fix Climate Change With a Flick of a Switch, Will It be More Palatable to Conservatives?

"Geoengineering might get more conservatives to believe in global warming – and I’m not sure that’s a good thing"

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10.05.2013

# Calls & events

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Job: 2 PhD positions in climate modeling (German)

Application submission: 17.05.2013

2 Phd positions in Kiel/Germany for climate modeling of CE side effects and uncertainties.

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