Flannery Tim (2015): Atmosphere of hope. Searching for solutions to the climate crisis. Text Publishing.

"Ten years after his internationally bestselling The Weather Makers, acclaimed author and scientist Tim Flannery argues that Earth's climate system is approaching a crisis. Catastrophe is not inevitable, but time is fast running out. In the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Summit to be held in Paris in December 2015, Atmosphere of Hope provides both a snapshot of the trouble we are in and an up-to-the-minute analysis of some of the new possibilities for mitigating climate change that are emerging now."

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MacMartin, Douglas G.; Kravitz, Ben; Rasch, Philip J. (2015): On solar geoengineering and climate uncertainty. In Geophys. Res. Lett., pp. n/a. DOI 10.1002/2015GL065391.

"We explore the effects of geoengineering on one source of climate system uncertainty by evaluating the inter-model-spread across 12 climate models participating in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison project (GeoMIP). The model-spread in simulations of climate change and the model-spread in the response to solar geoengineering are not additive but rather partially cancel."

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Laakso, A.; Kokkola, H.; Partanen, A.-I.; Niemeier, U.; Timmreck, C.; Lehtinen, K. E. J. et al. (2015): Radiative and climate impacts of a large volcanic eruption during stratospheric sulfur geoengineering. In Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. 15 (15), pp. 21837–21881. DOI 10.5194/acpd-15-21837-2015.

"Here we employ a global aerosol-climate model and an earth system model to study the radiative and climate impacts of an erupting volcano during solar radiation management (SRM). According to our simulations, the radiative impacts of an eruption and SRM are not additive: in the simulated case of concurrent eruption and SRM, the peak increase in global forcing is about 40 % lower compared to a corresponding eruption into a clean background atmosphere."

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