RE: [geo] CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT BACKS AWAY FROM SOLAR GEOENGINEERING PROJECT

2020-06-17 Thread Douglas MacMartin
Well, to the extent that one can interpret the CBD decision as a moratorium or not, it still has an explicit exception for research (and I think one would be hard-pressed to claim that SCoPEx will itself have negative impacts on biodiversity), so I think it is fair to say that the authors of thi

[geo] CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT BACKS AWAY FROM SOLAR GEOENGINEERING PROJECT

2020-06-17 Thread Andrew Lockley
Poster's note: the moratorium claim is controversial/wrong, but I don't know if the rest of this stands up http://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/2020/06/california-government-backs-away-from-solar-geoengineering-project-but-doesnt-withdraw/ CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT BACKS AWAY FROM SOLAR GEOENGINEERI

[geo] Availability of risky geoengineering can make an ambitious climate mitigation agreement more likely

2020-06-17 Thread Andrew Lockley
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0492-6 Availability of risky geoengineering can make an ambitious climate mitigation agreement more likely Adrien Fabre & Gernot Wagner Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 7, Article number: 1 (2020) Cite this article 1 Altmetric Metric