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March 25, 2021 Frank Biermann publishes a blogpost concluding “Solar geoengineering is wrong... Governments must take control. Solar geoengineering must be stopped.” https://www.frankbiermann.org/post/reflections-on-the-nas-report-on-solar-geoengineering-research Spring 2021 Seventeen authors, led by Biermann and including Mike Hulme, submit “Solar Radiation Management: The Case for a Non-use Agreement” to an unknown journal. It is rejected. https://twitter.com/TedParson4/status/1487879187549487109?s=20&t=QUVgPI4qGp7PAwXipHLtFA Spring 2021, sometime later Sixteen authors (the same as before but without Hulme) submit “Solar Geoengineering: The Case for a Non-use Agreement” to WIREs Climate Change, where Hulme is the editor-in-chief. June 2021 Holly Buck reviews the submission to WIREs Climate Change, recommending rejection. The emails to her from the journal are signed by Hulme. https://twitter.com/hollyjeanbuck/status/1487159924291510274?s=20&t=QUVgPI4qGp7PAwXipHLtFA June 29, 2021 Seventeen authors, the same as before but including Hulme, publish a letter in Nature, “It is dangerous to normalize solar geoengineering research,” which makes the same key points as the previous two submissions. It concludes “We call on our governments and funding agencies to halt the normalization of research into planetary solar-geoengineering technologies. A global moratorium is needed.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01724-2 January 17, 2022 “Solar Geoengineering: The Case for a Non-use Agreement” is published in WIREs Climate Change as a perspective, with the sixteen co-authors led by Biermann. Hulme is listed not as an author but as the sole editor of the article. (Other published WIREs Climate Change Perspectives list other editors, implying that Hulme was the managing editor of the submission, not listed simply because he is the journal’s editor-in-chief.) https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.754 On the same day, the sixteen co-authors launch a sign-on letter, “We call for an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering.” The website states “The proposed non-use agreement is described in more detail in an academic journal article in WIREs Climate Change, co-authored by 16 scientists and initiators of this call.” Hulme is among the roughly 45 first signatories who are listed at that time. https://www.solargeoeng.org/non-use-agreement/signatories/ January 19 to 27, 2022 Buck publishes a few Twitter threads and opinion essays that are critical of the article and associated open letter. https://twitter.com/hollyjeanbuck/status/1483898133599899654 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/could-solar-geoengineering-be-a-force-for-peace.html https://twitter.com/hollyjeanbuck/status/1486019933439934469 https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/01/26/1044226/we-cant-afford-to-stop-solar-geoengineering-research/ https://twitter.com/hollyjeanbuck/status/1486346180460171266 Biermann responds on his blog. https://www.frankbiermann.org/post/solar-geoengineering-no-publicly-funded-research-without-a-plan-for-global-governance January 28, 2022 Buck says that she was a reviewer of the WIREs Climate Change submission, recommended rejection, and did not receive any further response. She further says that Hulme was both her point of contact for this review and notes that he was a co-signatory of the Nature Correspondence. https://twitter.com/hollyjeanbuck/status/1487159924291510274 January 29, 2022 At 3:16 PM GMT, Biermann responds to Buck’s concerns by pointing out that the article is a Perspective, not a research article. He mentions that “We received 3 positive reviews & 1 critical one”, i.e. Buck. (WIREs Climate Change Perspectives are typically reviewed by only three peers.) https://twitter.com/FHBBiermann/status/1487444590667997187 At 6:15 PM GMT, another of the article’s authors (Saleem Ali) responds to Buck’s concerns by saying that “We were very conscious of this and the editor of the journal recused himself completely from the review process. @FHBBiermann managed that to ensure objective review… Some emails are auto-generated with editor's email. A response to reviewers was prepared - sometimes journals don't share that back with reviewers.” https://twitter.com/saleem_ali/status/1487491424761397256 Notably, Biermann did not assert this when he responded on this issue three hours before. The tweet with the first part of the above quotation is deleted sometime in the next 36 hours. A screenshot is available. https://twitter.com/geoengineering1/status/1488066192854114311/ January 30, 2022 Ted Parson confirms that the Spring 2021 submission had seventeen authors, including Mike Hulme. https://twitter.com/TedParson4/status/1487879187549487109 -- 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/CAJ3C-05mYxGM%3DkpzaZ2FFLpv5zFutO6T%3DXdP5PmXiQ25axUsGQ%40mail.gmail.com.
