by Anja Chalmin Recent Geoengineering research activities In mid-September, a US$ 110 million U.S. Federal Support Programme for CCUS1 was announced by the United States Department of Energy (US-DOE)’s Office of Fossil Energy. The funding...
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Geoengineering ‘false solution’ to climate crisis
This article was originally published by the Manila Times by John Leo C. Algo As the climate crisis continues to worsen despite warnings by experts, a new potential solution is emerging in international dialogues. Geoengineering, or large-scale man-made interventions...
Solar Radiation Management: Regional Briefings, Asia, Africa, Latin America
These briefings explore the potential consequences of using Solar Radiation Management (SRM) – a form of geoengineering being considered by some governments to address climate change. SRM is a set of technologies designed to reduce sunlight and lower temperatures....
Marine Cloud Brightening Project: Geoengineering Experiment Briefing
» Download this briefing [pdf] Location: Moss Landing, California, USA (Between Monterey and Santa Cruz) Budget: $16.3 million Summary: The Marine Cloud Brightening Project (MCBP) aims to test the premise that spraying a fine mist of sea water into clouds can make...
The Ice 911 Project: Geoengineering Experiment Briefing
» Download this briefing [pdf] Locations: Near Barrow, Alaska; the Beaufort Gyre (an ocean current flowing past Nunavut and Alaska); and Fram Straight (between Greenland and Svalbard) Budget: $97,630 (based on 2015 crowdfunder1, which raised $3,103 from 24 donors, but...
Why Socialists Should Oppose Geoengineering
by Keith Brunner This article originally submitted to Jacobin in response to an article by their editorial board member, Peter Frase, but Keith has not received any response from them. Reposted here with permission from the Institute for Social Ecology. A Socialist...
Current Geoengineering Attempts Briefing: SCoPEx
Download PDF version: ETC-briefing-SCoPEx Location: World View Spaceport Tucson, Arizona, USA Key Players: Frank Keutsch, David Keith, John Dykema, and Lizzie Burns, all Harvard Professors. Burns and Keith head the Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program....
Critical Geoengineering Activities at COP 23
If you're in Bonn for the UN Climate Conference for the next few weeks, mark your calendars for the following side events from civil society critical of climate geoengineering: “Geoengineering, technofixes and radical emission reductions” Hosted by Heinrich...
Climate Change, Smoke and Mirrors
For the past decade, a small but growing group of governments and scientists, the majority from the most powerful and most climate-polluting countries in the world, has been pushing for political consideration of geoengineering, the deliberate large-scale...
New briefing: Why are Solar Radiation Management Experiments a Bad Idea?
by ETC Group. A new briefing from ETC Group outlines the ethical, political and environmental arguments against solar radiation management (SRM), and explains why even SRM experiments are a bad idea. The backgrounder was released in late March 2017 after Harvard...
ETC’s Irreverent Review of 2015… and (possibly) Irrelevant Preview of 2016
Download the full review here. The Year that Ended Dangerously If El Niño weren’t enough, the extraordinary winds that struck Yemen and Mexico’s Pacific Coast were matched by record-breaking forest fires in the Indonesian archipelago, droughts, torrential rains and...
The Risks of Climate Engineering
by Clive Hamilton (New York Times) The Republican Party has long resisted action on climate change, but now that much of the electorate wants something done, it needs to find a way out of the hole it has dug for itself. A committee appointed by the National Research...
Why Geoengineering is “Untested and Untestable”
by Naomi Klein (This Changes Everything) Nature has a new opinion piece up that signals a bold new push for field experiments into techo hacking the climate system, usually known as “geoengineering.” Right now there are all kinds of geoengineering experiments going on...
Strange Bedfellows? Climate Change Denial and Support for Geoengineering
by David Appell (Yale Climate Connections) These days, an article headlined “Geo-Engineering Seen as a Practical, Cost-Effective Global Warming Strategy” would hardly be surprising. But what is surprising is that the headline came from a group denying global warming...
Climate Crisis: Radical Action or a New Battlefront in the War on Nature?
Arctic Methane Emergency Group (AMEG) warns of catastrophic release of methane from permafrost, peat and the thawing Arctic leading to unstoppable runaway warming. Scary, but does it warrant deployment of highly risky geoengineering technologies that are likely to only make matters worse?