What’s missing from David Keith’s climate change charm offensive by Jim Thomas This article was originally published by the Media Co-op. Last Sunday, CBC listeners across Canada enjoyed their morning coffee and took care of a few chores around the house while the...
Solar Radiation Management
A Brief Primer on Ocean Fertilization in the CBD and the London Convention and Protocol
by Duncan E.J. Currie LL.B. (Hons) LL.M. This briefing outlines the principal decisions and resolutions of the Convention on Biological Diversity and London Convention/Protocol relating to ocean fertilization in the context of the Haida Salmon Restoration...
Geoengineering experiment cancelled amid patent row
Balloon-based ‘test bed’ for climate-change mitigation abandoned. by Daniel Cressey (Nature) A field trial for a novel UK geoengineering experiment has been cancelled amid questions about a pre-existing patent application for some of the technology involved. The...
U.K. Geoengineering Tests Delayed until Spring
by Sarah Fecht (Scientific American) Controversial tests of geoengineering hardware, initially set to start in October, have been delayed. The British government agency that provides funding to the project issued the delay on September 29, in order “to allow time for...
SPICE put on ice
by Geoffrey Brumfiel (Nature) A British experiment to test technologies that could one day be used to manage the climate has been put on hold, in part due to the objections of environmental groups. The Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE)...
Say No to the “Trojan Hose”
No SPICE in our skies, say environmental justice groups (ETC Group/Econexus) Over 50 concerned groups from around the world are calling on people to sign an open letter (here) asking the UK Government and Research Councils to scrap the controversial SPICE experiment...
Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the race to cool the planet
by John Vidal The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin...