"academic arguments against research into GE have been erroneously premised on the possibility of future deployment when in truth this deployment already happened, even if unintended." OE
http://geoengineeringclimateissues.blogspot.com/2013/04/geoengineering-self-fulfilling.html
From:
20 reasons why geoengineering may be a bad idea
ALAN ROBOCK Rutgers University
http://www.thebulletin.org/files/064002006_0.pdf
18. Control
of the thermostat. Even if scientists could predict the behavior and
environmental effects of a given geoengineering project, and political leaders
could muster the public support and funding to implement it, how would the
world agree on the optimal climate?
What if
Russia wants it a couple of degrees warmer, and India a couple of degrees
cooler?
Should
global climate be reset to preindustrial temperature or kept constant at
today’s reading?
Would it be
possible to tailor the climate of each region of the planet independently
without affecting the others?
If we proceed
with geoengineering, will we provoke future climate wars?
19.
Questions of moral authority. Ongoing global warming is the result of inadvertent
climate modification.
Humans emit
carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to heat and cool their homes; to
grow, transport, and cook their food; to run their factories; and to travel—not
intentionally, but as a byproduct of fossil fuel combustion.
But now
that humans are aware of their effect on climate, do they have a moral right to
continue emitting greenhouse gases?
Similarly,
since scientists know that stratospheric aerosol injection, for example, might
impact the ecosphere, do humans have a right to plow ahead regardless?
There’s no
global agency to require an environmental impact statement for geoengineering.
So, how
should humans judge how much climate control they may try?
20.
Unexpected consequences. Scientists cannot possibly account for all of the complex
climate interactions or predict all of the impacts of geoengineering.
Climate
models are improving, but scientists are discovering that climate is changing
more rapidly than they predicted, for example, the surprising and unprecedented
extent to which Arctic sea ice melted during the summer of 2007.
Scientists
may never have enough confidence that their theories will predict how well
geoengineering systems can work.
With so
much at stake, there is reason to worry about what we don’t know.
Other links
With so
much at stake, there is reason to worry about what we don’t know.
Global
Climate Engineering: Who Controls the Thermostat?
By Brandon Keim, WIRED October 2007
Geoengineering
and Environmental Ethics
By:
Dane Scott 2012 Nature Education http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/geoengineering-and-environmental-ethics-80061230 By: Dane Scott 2012 Nature Education
Superfreaky:
The Wild World of Geoengineering
Geoengineering will follow Murphy’s Law of Unintended Consequences:
whatever can go wrong, will, and it’s probably something you didn’t think of. Roosevelt Institute, May 2011
http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/new-roosevelt/superfreaky-wild-world-geoengineering
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