A more direct link here: http://whatnext.org/resources/Publications/Volume-III/Single-articles/wnv3_etcgroup_144.pdf
I thought these nuggets were especially revealing: Why is geoengineering unacceptable? It can’t be tested: No experimental phase is possible – in order to have a noticeable impact on the climate, geoengineering must be deployed on a massive scale. ‘Experiments’ or ‘field trials’ are actually equivalent to deployment in the real world because small- scale tests do not deliver the data on climate effects. For people and biodiversity, impacts would likely be massive as well as immediate and possibly irreversible.It is unequal: OECD governments and powerful corporations (who have denied or ignored climate change and its impact on biodiversity for decades but are responsible, historically, for most greenhouse gas emissions) are the ones with the budgets and the technology to execute this gamble with Gaia.There is no reason to trust that they will have the interests of more vulnerable states or peoples in mind.There are several examples provided in Geopiracy: The Case Against Geoengineering (ETC Group, 2010: 31-32).228 Development Dialogue September 2012 | What Next Volume III | Climate, Development and EquityIt is unilateral: Although all geoengineering proposals run into tens of billions of dollars, for rich nations and billionaires, they could be considered relatively cheap (and simple) to deploy.The capacity to act will be within the hands of those who possess the technology (individuals, corporations, states) in the next few years. It is urgent that multilateral measures are taken to ban any unilat- eral attempts to manipulate Earth ecosystems. It is risky and unpredictable: The side effects of geoengineered interventions are unknown. Geoengineering could easily have un- intended consequences due to any number of factors: mechanical failure, human error, inadequate understanding of ecosystems and biodiversity and the Earth’s climate, unforeseen natural phenom- ena, irreversibility, or funding lapses. It violates treaties: Many geoengineering techniques have latent military purposes and their deployment would violate the UN Environmental Modification Treaty (ENMOD), which prohibits the hostile use of environmental modification. It is the perfect excuse: Geoengineering offers governments an alternative to reducing emissions and protecting biodiversity. Geoengineering research is often seen as a way to ‘buy time’, but it also gives governments justification to delay compensation for damage caused by climate change and to avoid taking action on emissions reduction. It commodifies our climate and raises the spectre of climate profiteering: Those who think they have a planetary fix for the climate crisis are already flooding patent offices with patent ap- plications. Should a ‘Plan B’ ever be agreed upon, the prospect of it being privately controlled is terrifying. Serious planet-altering technologies should never be undertaken for commercial profit. If geoengineering is actually a climate emergency back-up plan, then it should not be eligible for carbon credits under the Clean Development Mechanism or any other offset system. Unfortunately, the article fails to mention that non-geoengineering approaches to the CO2 problem are failing miserably. To therefore automatically vilify any untested, new technology that might have a positive, global scale impact on this problem would seem to be a little premature and short sighted if not extremely dangerous for the planet considering the lack success by more "acceptable"(?) strategies. -Greg ________________________________ From: Andrew Lockley <andrew.lock...@gmail.com> To: geoengineering <geoengineering@googlegroups.com> Sent: Fri, November 16, 2012 5:51:27 PM Subject: [geo] Mooney, Pat; et al. (2012): Darken the sky and whiten the earth Mooney, Pat; et al. (2012): Darken the sky and whiten the earth http://www.climate-engineering.eu/single/items/mooney-pat-et-al-2012-darken-the-sky-and-whiten-the-earth.html Mooney, Pat; Wetter, Kathy Jo; Bronson, Diana (2012): Darken the sky and whiten the earth. The dangers of geoengineering. In: What Next Forum (Hg.): Climate, Development and Equity. Uppsala (What next?, 3), pp. 210?237. Critical review of CE. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
