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Climate emergencies do not justify engineering the climate

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  • Jana Sillmann

    (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo)

  • Timothy M. Lenton

    (Earth System Science, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter)

  • Anders Levermann

    (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
    Institute for Physics and Astronomy, Potsdam University)

  • Konrad Ott

    (Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Kiel University)

  • Mike Hulme

    (King's College London)

  • François Benduhn

    (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies)

  • Joshua B. Horton

    (Harvard Kennedy School)

Abstract

Current climate engineering proposals do not come close to addressing the complex and contested nature of conceivable 'climate emergencies' resulting from unabated greenhouse-gas emissions.

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  • Jana Sillmann & Timothy M. Lenton & Anders Levermann & Konrad Ott & Mike Hulme & François Benduhn & Joshua B. Horton, 2015. "Climate emergencies do not justify engineering the climate," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 5(4), pages 290-292, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:5:y:2015:i:4:d:10.1038_nclimate2539
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2539
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    1. Daniel Edward Callies & Darrel Moellendorf, 2021. "Assessing climate policies: Catastrophe avoidance and the right to sustainable development," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, , vol. 20(2), pages 127-150, May.
    2. Colin J. Carlson & Rita Colwell & Mohammad Sharif Hossain & Mohammed Mofizur Rahman & Alan Robock & Sadie J. Ryan & Mohammad Shafiul Alam & Christopher H. Trisos, 2022. "Solar geoengineering could redistribute malaria risk in developing countries," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.
    3. Garth Heutel & Juan Moreno-Cruz & Katharine Ricke, 2016. "Climate Engineering Economics," Annual Review of Resource Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 8(1), pages 99-118, October.
    4. Tommi Ekholm & Hannele Korhonen, 2016. "Climate change mitigation strategy under an uncertain Solar Radiation Management possibility," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 139(3), pages 503-515, December.
    5. James Patterson & Carina Wyborn & Linda Westman & Marie Claire Brisbois & Manjana Milkoreit & Dhanasree Jayaram, 2021. "The political effects of emergency frames in sustainability," Nature Sustainability, Nature, vol. 4(10), pages 841-850, October.

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