Mike MacCracken is right. Anthropogenic climate change policy is a risk/benefit problem. In that framework Geo fits very well. The best, Bill Fulkerson On May 23, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Mike MacCracken <[email protected]> wrote:
> Again, I can only say that I hope the context for the study is that climate > change is happening and leading to/projected to lead to very serious > consequences, all so serious that the recommendation is that all countries > completely get off of fossil fuels that supply 80+% of the world's energy. > From the titles of the projects, it sounds as if the analysis will be done > absent the context, which would make very little sense and be of quite > limited use. What is needed is a comparative risk analysis: global warming > with and without climate engineering. > > Mike MacCracken > > > On 5/23/13 5:28 PM, "aoschlies" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A new Priority Program on the assessment of climate engineering is funded by >> the German Research Foundation (DFG): „Climate Engineering: Risks, >> Challenges, Opportunities?“ (SPP 1689) – coordinated by Andreas Oschlies, >> GEOMAR, Kiel. Its first 3-year phase (2012-2015) is funded with about 5 Mio >> Euro. The kick-off meeting will take place in Berlin 3rd of June 2013 >> (http://www.spp-climate-engineering.de/auftaktveranstaltung-podiumsdiskussion. >> html). >> >> The aim of the Priority Program is to help constraining the significant >> uncertainties in our current understanding of the environmental, societal and >> political risks, challenges and possible opportunities of climate >> engineering. >> This will help to enable a responsible decision-making about CE. Due to the >> complexity of the topic we will conduct our assessment in a broad >> interdisciplinary research team. A crucial concern of the Priority Program is >> to involve the general public and carry out the research in a transparent >> manner. >> >> The first phase oft the program will include the following subprojects: >> • „How to Meet a Global Challenge? Climate Engineering at the Science-Policy >> Nexus: Contested Understandings of Responsible Research and Governance “ - >> Barben (RWTH Aachen), Janich (TU Darmstadt) >> • „Arguing about CE: Towards a Comprehensive Ethical Analysis of an Ongoing >> Debate“ – Betz (KIT), Ott (CAU Kiel), Visbeck (GEOMAR) >> • „Comparative assessment of potential impacts, side-effects and >> uncertainties >> of CE measures and emission-reduction efforts (ComparCE)“, Ilyina (MPI >> Hamburg), Oschlies (GEOMAR), Pongratz (MPI Hamburg), Schmidt (MPI Hamburg) >> • „Climate Engineering Impacts: Between Reliability and Liability (CEIBRAL)“, >> Carrier (Uni Bielefeld), Goeschl (Uni Heidelberg), Proelß (Uni Tier), Schmidt >> (MPI Hamburg) >> • „Fingerprints analysis of extreme events caused by stratospheric sulfur >> injections (FASSI)“, Cubasch (FU Berlin) >> • „Contextualizing Climate Engineering and Mitigation: Complement, Substitute >> or Illusion? (CEMICS) “, Edenhofer (PIK), Hartmann (Uni Hamburg), Held (Uni >> Hamburg), Lawrence (IASS) >> • „Climate Engineering on Land: Potentials and side-effects of afforestation >> and biomass plantations as instruments for Carbon Extraction (CE-LAND) “, >> Gerten (PIK), Kracher (MPI Hamburg), Lucht (PIK), Pongratz (MPI Hamburg) >> • „Learning about cloud brightening under risk and uncertainty: Whether, when >> and how to do field experiments (LEAC)“, Quaas (Uni Leipzig), Quaas (CAU >> Kiel) >> > >> >> The DFG has asked three further subprojects to submit a revised proposal. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
