18.11.2020

# New Publications

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Schneider, Tapio; et al. (2020): Solar geoengineering may not prevent strong warming from direct effects of CO2 on stratocumulus cloud cover

Schneider, Tapio; Kaul, Colleen M.; Pressel, Kyle G. (2020): Solar geoengineering may not prevent strong warming from direct effects of CO2 on stratocumulus cloud cover. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2003730117.

"Solar geoengineering that manipulates the amount of sunlight Earth absorbs is increasingly discussed as an option to counter global warming. However, we demonstrate that solar geoengineering is not a fail-safe option to prevent global warming because it does not mitigate risks to the climate system that arise from direct effects of greenhouse gases on cloud cover"

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03.11.2020

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LegalPlanet: Geoengineering: Ready for its Close-up?

"After long being marginalized in climate debates, geoengineering is experiencing a surge in attention — which carries both opportunities and risks."

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01.11.2020

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Podcast: Reviewer 2 does geoengineering: Adrian Fabre on economics and geoengineering, a deep dive on his recent paper with Gernot Wagner

"Adrian and Andrew discuss game theory, free riding and other essential considerations in a deep dive into Adrian's recent paper entitled "Availability of risky geoengineering can make an ambitious climate mitigation agreement more likely" by Adrien Fabre & Gernot Wagner."

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01.11.2020

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The New York Times: As Climate Disasters Pile Up, a Radical Proposal Gains Traction

"The idea of modifying Earth’s atmosphere to cool the planet, once seen as too risky to seriously consider, is attracting new money and attention."

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01.11.2020

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C2G Guest Post: 5 lessons from COVID-19 for solar geoengineering

"If the idea of suppressing temperature rise by injecting an aerosol into the sky leaves the realm of modelling and experiments, it will be thrust into a science-media-politics environment that operates in ways that are not currently anticipated—at least not in idealized modelling studies."

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26.10.2020

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Boston Globe: Some wonder if we could geoengineer our way out of climate crisis

"Proposed solar geoengineering technologies to cool our warming earth by reflecting incoming sunlight could have greater benefits than harms only in a world that is firmly on a path to dramatically reduce heat-trapping emissions from burning fossil fuels."

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23.10.2020

# New Publications

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Sapinski, J. P.; et al. (2020): Has it come to this? The promises and perils of geoengineering on the brink

Sapinski, J. P.; Buck, Holly Jean; Malm, Andreas (Eds.) (2020): Has it come to this? The promises and perils of geoengineering on the brink. New Brunswick, Camden: Rutgers University Press (Nature, society, and culture).

"The editors set out this diverse collection of voices not as a monolithic, unified take on geoengineering, but as a place where creative thinkers, students, and interested environmental and social justice advocates can explore nuanced ideas in more than 240 characters."

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22.10.2020

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The Ecologist: Hacking the earth?

"Geo-engineering 'turns hearts and minds away from the cause of the climate crisis and inevitably dilutes the urgency with which it must be addressed'."

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19.10.2020

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Boston Globe: The world needs to explore solar geoengineering as a tool to fight climate change

"As with other technologies, the risks of solar geoengineering cannot be sensibly evaluated without a scenario for goals and governance."

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15.10.2020

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C2G Guest Post: Solar Geoengineering, Compensation, and Parametric Insurance: Insights from the Pacific

"Compensation is a central issue in considering the possible future deployment of solar geoengineering [1] for two reasons. First and most obvious, corrective justice would require compensating those who are harmed. Second, without a credible compensation mechanism, many states would likely oppose deployment by imposing high short-term costs such as trade or financial sanctions on would-be deployers."

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