http://anr.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/03/26/2053019615579922.abstract
The emergency framing of solar geoengineering: Time for a different approach Joshua B Horton Harvard Kennedy School, USA [email protected] Abstract Solar geoengineering has been proposed as a possible response measure in the event of a ‘climate emergency’. Scientific evidence for climate emergencies in the form of tipping points, however, is contested and unsettled. Furthermore, declarations of emergency entail authoritarian political tendencies that historically have given rise to repression and abuse. By definition, an emergency must exhibit a combination of high risk, urgency and necessity; no plausible climatic tipping point displays all these attributes simultaneously. A weak scientific basis together with genuine societal peril argues against the continued emergency framing of solar geoengineering. climate engineering emergency framing geoengineering This Article Published online before print March 26, 2015, doi: 10.1177/2053019615579922 The Anthropocene Review March 26, 2015 -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
