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Large-Scale Intentional Interventions into the Climate System? Assessing the Climate Engineering Debate

Author(s): Rickels W, Klepper G, Dovern J, Betz G, Brachatzek N, Cacean S, Güssow K, Heintzenberg J, Hiller S, Hoose C, Leisner T, Oschlies A, Platt U, Proelß A, Renn O, Schäfer S, Zürn M

Published: December, 2011

Publisher: Kiel Earth Institute

Tags: Overview, Politics, Economics, Governance

URL: http://www.kiel-earth-institute.de/activities/research/scoping-study-climate-engineering

Abstract: Climate engineering – a collective term for large-scale technical interventions in the Earth‘s climate system – is increasingly discussed as an option to respond to anthropogenic climate change. Climate engineering technologies cover technologies both for the causative reduction of and the symptomatic compensation for anthropogenic climate change. The former are called carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies because they reduce CO2 in the atmosphere, the latter radiation management (RM) technologies because they directly influence radiation balance and therefore temperature. As the definition implies, any application of climate engineering has potentially global effects: climate and ecosystems would be changed across the world, affecting the environments of whole societies. For this reason, a purely scientific or economic analysis of the topic falls extremely short, precisely because climate engineering affects so many environmental media, societies and areas of human life.


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