https://www.project-syndicate.org/bigpicture/a-climate-silver-bullet
In this Big Picture, David Keith<https://www.project-syndicate.org/bigpicture/a-climate-silver-bullet#solar-geoengineering-global-climate-debate-by-david-keith-2019-03>, a professor of applied physics at Harvard, argues that foregoing debate and research on climate geoengineering now could increase the risk of future misuse. But Karin Nansen<https://www.project-syndicate.org/bigpicture/a-climate-silver-bullet#climate-change-geoengineering-false-solution-by-karin-nansen-2019-09> of Friends of the Earth International contends that advocacy for carbon capture and related technologies has become a “charade” through which entrenched interests can keep profiting from an unsustainable status quo. And in so doing, warns François Martel<https://www.project-syndicate.org/bigpicture/pacific-islanders-climate-change-geoengineering-by-francois-martel-2019-09> of the Pacific Islands Development Forum, they are threatening the very survival of low-lying island countries. Making matters worse, Silvia Ribeiro<https://www.project-syndicate.org/bigpicture/a-climate-silver-bullet#geoengineering-big-oil-trojan-horse-by-silvia-ribeiro-2019-08> of the ETC Group points out that geoengineering technologies could actually pose additional risks, given that they are designed to alter climate conditions on a massive scale, yet remain largely untested. Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon<https://www.project-syndicate.org/bigpicture/a-climate-silver-bullet#climate-change-geoengineering-technologies-governance-by-ban-ki-moon-2019-03> thus sees an urgent need for international standards governing the experimentation and use of such measures. And Barbara Unmüssig<https://www.project-syndicate.org/bigpicture/a-climate-silver-bullet#climate-change-geoengineering-false-promise-by-barbara-unmuessig-2017-10> of the Heinrich Böll Foundation says that any global regulatory regime must include outright bans on the most politically and socially disruptive geoengineering methods. -- Alan Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor Associate Editor, Reviews of Geophysics Department of Environmental Sciences Phone: +1-848-932-5751 Rutgers University E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 14 College Farm Road http://people.envsci.rutgers.edu/robock New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551 USA ☮ http://twitter.com/AlanRobock -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/4247cc57-477b-18e5-252c-aa28787d43e2%40envsci.rutgers.edu.
