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The latest emissions data from the International Energy Agency suggest that our current methods for dealing with climate change have not worked. This means we will have to adapt to climate change, for example by selecting crops more suited to a warmer climate and abandoning low-lying coastal areas. But adaptation cannot be our only response; there are limits to adaption, particularly if the rate at which temperature rises is such that the natural ecosystems we depend upon cannot adjust in time.
This article was originally published in PS: Political Science & Politics, volume 46, issue 01, pp. 23-27.
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Is there room for geoengineering in the optimal climate policy mix?2015 •
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Geoengineering and Climate Change2018 •
Edited by: Joseph C. Pitt and Ashley Shew
Geoengineering is often seen as being able to fix the problem of global warming and for a rather small price tag, at least when compared to the deeply expensive alternative of investing in clean energy, or so the frame goes. However, this type of framing is representative of a problematically short-sighted and narrowly defined analysis of the problem, whereby consideration is only given to the short-term costs of reducing global surface temperatures. What such a framing fails to include is the broader context of the various strategies and all of the costs benefits and risks associated with them. In response to the problematic framing I argue that clean energy and rapid emission reductions is a deeply preferable strategy to stratospheric sulfate injection on multiple grounds including saved fuel costs, reduced climate impacts, and reduced costs from expensive and risky forms of geoengineering.
With the concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) rising to levels unprecedented in the current glacial epoch, the earth’s climate system appears to be rapidly shifting into a warmer regime. Many in the international science and policy communities fear that the fundamental changes in human behavior, and in the global economy, that will be required to meaningfully reduce GHG emissions
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There is a serious possibility that simple and reversible measures exist that cool global temperature and could combat global warming at low cost. Spreading SO2 particles in the atmosphere is the most promising example, but there are other ones. They all involve intentional large-scale manipulation of the environment, which is labeled "geoengineering". We introduce the concept of "geoengineering" into an
WIREs Climate Change
“In case of emergency press here”: Framing geoengineering as a response to dangerous climate changeGeoengineering, especially its potentially fast and high-leverage versions, is often justified as a necessary response to possible future climate emergencies. In this paper we take the notion of ‘necessity’ in international law as a starting point in assessing how rapid, high-leverage geoengineering might be justified legally. The need to specify reliably ‘grave and imminent peril’ makes such a justification difficult because our scientific ability to predict abrupt climate change, for example as tipping elements, is limited. The time it takes to establish scientific consensus as well as policy acceptance restricts the scope for effective forewarning and so pre-emptive justifications for geoengineering become more tempting. While recognising that dangerous, large-scale impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly difficult to avoid, the pre-emptive, emergency frame is problematic. We suggest that arguments from emergency operate on a high level of uncertainty and tend towards hubristic attempts to shape the future, as well as tending to close down rather than open up space for deliberation. We conclude that the emergency frame is not likely to go away, that ignoring or repressing it is a dangerous response and that more effort is required to defuse and disarm emergency rhetoric.
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