Climate Control with Crutzen

Tim Radford comments in the Guardian (3.8.2006) on proposals by Paul Crutzen to scatter sulphate particles in the upper atmosphere as a way of reducing global warming. Crutzen published his proposal in the August issue of Climatic Change. It's a good opportunity to get to know the new blog-like comment feature at the Guardian website Comment is free...but facts are sacred.
In an interview with Deutschlandfunk radio (2.8.2006) Crutzen responds to his critics. He says the most important point to combat global warming is reducing greenhouse gas emissions, especially CO2. But in politics almost nothing with relevance happens. He adds that his proposal is aiming at a principal investigation of sulphate particles in the stratosphere, side effects included.

1 comment

4. Sep 2006, 10:13 by martin_
Joachim Müller-Jung comments to the issue in FAZ (9.8.2006). He thinks that the climate change establishment focuses to much on its premier goal: to curb greenhouse gases. That's fine, but they shouldn't neglect alternatives or any kind of response to climate change: adaption for warming, droughts and floods; and also geo-engineering. A PDF version of Crutzen's paper is now available on the website of the journal Climatic Change.


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