Geoengineering Technologies

Geoengineers test risky planetary engineering scheme in Australia

Experiment defies 193-country UN moratorium Originally posted by ETC Group In a shocking move, a small group of Australian geoengineers have defied an international moratorium on the deployment of geoengineering technologies. To accomplish this, the project...

“Carbon Capture” Is No Magical Climate Cure

We need a radical change in the way we produce energy. But decision makers are being seduced by ‘fixes’ promoted by the fossil fuel industry in an attempt to keep us locked into their failed model.

Deceptive California Climate Bill Pushes Geoengineering

California state legislators have explicitly promotes a climate policy framework vision that celebrates and advances morally hazardous and environmentally dangerous geoengineering technologies for “carbon dioxide removal” (CDR) and “negative emissions.”

What we have learned about Biochar since 2011?

By Biofuelwatch In 2011 Biofuelwatch published Biochar: A Critical Review of Science and Policy. In that report we highlighted the uncertainties about biochar including the large land area that would be required to supply biomass for a global scale impact, the...

Current Geoengineering proposals for the polar regions

In the face of fossil fuel use that is likely to burn through carbon budgets, geoengineers have put forward large-scale proposals with the stated aim of restoring polar-ice or to slow the melting processes through interventions in the polar regions.

The False Premise of Desperate Measures

by Gabriel Levy A response to After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration by Holly Jean Buck (London: Verso Books, 2019). This post was originally published on the blog People and Nature. We need to talk about geoengineering. Badly. To do...

Open Letter to SCoPEx Advisory Committee

Dear Members of the SCoPEx Advisory Board:

We are writing because you have recently joined the Advisory Committee for SCoPEx, a project that aims to advance a solar geoengineering technology.

A Geoengineering Trojan Horse

For fossil-fuel companies, the promise of geoengineering is the ideal excuse to continue with business as usual. Rather than allow the industry to continue to act in its own interest, the world must establish a strong, democratic regulatory mechanism, which includes the option to ban certain technologies outright.

Direct Air Capture: Recent developments and future plans

by Anja Chalmin In the early 1990s, the European Space Agency launched a technology to extend space missions by filtering exhaled CO2 out of the air on board of shuttles and space stations. During the past two decades, the technology - known as Direct...

Critics of “Fuel to the Fire” Fall Short on Evidence

The following blog was originally post to the CIEL web site as "We Do Not Need Geoengineering to Solve (or Exacerbate) the Climate Crisis". by Carroll Muffett On February 13, the Center for International Environmental Law launched a major new report examining the...

Distractors and Disruptors: Collision or Convergence?

Silicon Valley and Big Oil are heading in the same direction for different reasons: geoengineering as a climate technofix by Dru Jay The global response to the climate crisis is increasingly dominated by two forces – we’ll call them the disruptors and the distractors...

Against Geoengineering

by Silvia Ribeiro (This article originally appeared in Jacobin Magazine and on the Science for the People website.) According to the most recent IPCC report, we have only twelve years to drastically reduce emissions if we’re to keep the Earth’s temperature rise from...

Fire and Plantations in Portugal

by Oliver Munnion (This article was originally published by Science for the People.) Devastating wildfires are increasingly a feature of summers across the globe, and their intensity and scale have been linked directly to climate change in a number of recent...