Time’s Up
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BARCELONA – The international civil society network Climate Justice Now! deplores the downplaying of expectations for the Copenhagen Climate Summit in Barcelona by industrialized countries, UNFCCC officials and the host of the Copenhagen Summit. On the eve of Copenhagen, there is still no real progress on targets, a naïve and dangerous reliance on market mechanisms, no commitment to human rights, and a frightening context in which some countries are beginning to talk seriously about dangerous climate techno-fixes.
Llegó la hora
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La red internacional de la sociedad civil Climate Justice Now! deplora la minimización en las expectativas de la Cumbre de Copenhague sobre el Clima, celebrada, en Barcelona, entre los gobiernos de los países industrializados, los funcionarios de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CMNUCC) y el anfitrión de la Cumbre. En la víspera de esta Cumbre, todavía no hay un avance real en los objetivos, prevalece una confianza ingenua y peligrosa sobre los mecanismos de mercado, no hay compromiso con los derechos humanos, y existe un contexto escalofriante en el que algunos países están comenzando a hablar muy en serio acerca de peligrosas soluciones técnicas.
Informe de la Sociedad Real sobre geoingeniería y el clima
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Estando bajo la dirección del presidente de la Sociedad Real (Academia de Ciencias del Reino Unido), Lord Martin Rees, y comentado por James Lovelock, padre de la Hipótesis de Gaia, el reporte recién publicado de esta academia[1], que analiza las posibilidades de rediseñar el mundo por medio de la geoingeniería para salvarlo de la crisis del clima, podría parecer la encarnación personificada del principio precautorio.
The Royal Society’s Report on Geoengineering the Climate: Geoengineering or Geopiracy?
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With the Royal Society’s President, Lord Martin Rees, presiding and James Lovelock, the father of the Gaia Hypothesis, commenting, the release of the Society’s report[1] outlining the possibilities for geoengineering the world out of the climate crisis could seem the very embodiment of the precautionary principle. In his 2004 book, Our Final Century, it was Lord Rees after all who warned us that technological hubris could obliterate a million lives through “bio error or bioterror” before 2020. He is a cautious man not disposed to put faith in technological silver bullets. Likewise, Dr. Lovelock has been outspoken in his alarm over the impending climate chaos – edging toward geoengineering, but equally perturbed by the “Kafkaesque” prospects of scientists and governments trying to rejig the planetary thermostat.
UK Royal Society on Geoengineering: The Emperor's New Climate?
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The oldest scientific academy in the world, the UK’s Royal Society, will release its long-awaited report on geoengineering September 1st 2009 in London. The report, drafted by a panel dominated by geoengineering enthusiasts, is widely expected to recommend that the government support more research and perhaps even real-world experimentation of these controversial new technologies that intentionally manipulate the earth’s climate on a large scale with the aim of lessening the effects of climate change.
“Geoengineering is a bad idea, and, unfortunately, it may transform Lord Rees’s book from musings to memoir,” says Diana Bronson, researcher for the international technology watchdog ETC Group, referring to the Royal Society President’s 2004 book, Our Final Century, which suggested that humans may not live to see the end of the 21st century.