[geo] Sleepwalking into lock-in?

[Andrew Lockley]

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09644016.2018.1450344?journalCode=fenp20

Sleepwalking into lock-in? Avoiding wrongs to future people in the
governance of solar radiation management research
Catriona McKinnon
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Published online: 23 Mar 2018

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Abstract

Arguments are advanced for two ways in which we can avoid the reckless
endangerment of future people in the governance of solar radiation
management (SRM) research, which could happen through lock-in to SRM
deployment from research. SRM research is at an early stage, one at which
the mechanisms of lock-in could start to operate. However, lock-in fit to
endanger future people could be slowed or stopped through targeted
governance. Governance of SRM research that does not include provisions to
detect, slow, or stop lock-in fails the test of an intergenerationally
adequate precautionary principle, and research governed without these
provisions cannot itself be justified as a precaution against the impacts
of climate change.
KEYWORDS: Solar radiation management
,
intergenerational
justice ,
precaution , lock-in
, geoengineering
, climate justice


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Re: [geo] Great Barrier Reef Sun Shield Film Tested to Prevent Bleaching

[Jonathan Marshall]

1) There is as yet no evidence that using this technology is on anyone's 
political program, and most local coverage I've seen is in the Murdoch media.

2) The point that some forms of GE are simply ways of continuing pollution is 
demonstrated (should the project go ahead) by the current Australian Government 
being a massive supporter of coal mining and coal power and, some say, actively 
working against renewables (as are the Murdoch media).

3) The government has recently reduced protection for Marine Parks including 
the Reef, and the Adani mine port dredging for its inland coal mine is widely 
regarded as disastrous and poisonous for the Reef should it really get going, 
already having overflows into the Reef.

So yes, while this form of GE might be a great idea it seems to fit in with the 
usual pro-coal, pro-corporate economy, anti-environment people

jon


From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com  on 
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Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2018 3:53 AM
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Subject: [geo] Great Barrier Reef Sun Shield Film Tested to Prevent Bleaching

Aussies apparently undeterred by moral hazards and slippery slopes(?!)  .

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/sun-shield-film-protection-great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-spd/

“A "sun shield" 50,000 times thinner than a human hair has been designed to sit 
at the surface of the water, directly above corals. The thin film is meant to 
be like an umbrella that partially blocks out the sun. The shield is 
biodegradable and is made of calcium carbonate, the same component that coral 
skeletons are made of.”



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[geo] Great Barrier Reef Sun Shield Film Tested to Prevent Bleaching

[Greg Rau]

Aussies apparently undeterred by moral hazards and slippery slopes(?!)  .

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/sun-shield-film-protection-great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-spd/

“A "sun shield" 50,000 times thinner than a human hair has been designed to sit 
at the surface of the water, directly above corals. The thin film is meant to 
be like an umbrella that partially blocks out the sun. The shield is 
biodegradable and is made of calcium carbonate, the same component that coral 
skeletons are made of.”



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