Russia urges UN climate report to include geoengineering

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Russia urges UN climate report to include geoengineering

Martin Lukacs, Suzanne Goldenberg and Adam Vaughan
The Guardian, Thursday 19 September 2013 17.00 BST

Russia is pushing for next week's landmark UN climate science report to include support for controversial technologies to geoengineer the planet's climate, according to documents obtained by the Guardian.

As climate scientists prepare to gather for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Stockholm to present the most authoritative state of climate science to date, it has emerged the Russian government is asking for "planet hacking" to be included in the report. The IPCC has not included geoengineering in its major assessments before.

The documents seen by the Guardian show Russia is asking for a conclusion of the report to say that a "possible solution of this [climate change] problem can be found in using of (sic) geoengineering methods to stabilise current climate." Russia also highlighted that its scientists are developing geoengineering technologies.

Geoengineering aims to cool the Earth by methods including spraying sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight, or fertilising the oceans with iron to create carbon-capturing algal blooms.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/19/russia-un-climate-report-geoengineering

[GliderGuider]

1. Paging joshcryer - please pick up the nearest gold acknowledgement phone...

You were soooo right about this.

[CRH]

2. And so the Geoengineering debate is near the beginning, ...

oh wait, governments don't allow citizens in the debate, they just do what they want.

It will be interesting to see what kind of compensations are offered locations affected adversely.

Or maybe it is giant corporations, the geoengineering equivalent of Monsanto, that will decide what's best for us, and the bottom line.

With all these new trade agreements that strip local communities and individuals of their rights to legal recourse, ... ah ... but, I'm sure governments and corporations will bend over backward to be fair.

[Nihil]

3. Agreed.

> Or maybe it is giant corporations, the geoengineering equivalent of Monsanto,
> that will decide what's best for us, and the bottom line.

Obviously the slippery slope isn't steep enough yet for some people.

[hatrack]

4. From the people who brought you the Aral Sea, Kyshtym and Chernobyl

We know geoengineering!