Dear friends,
We just wanted to send you an update on the letter we signed last week on the IPCC meeting on geoengineering that got underway this morning in Peru. First of all, there has been quite a lot of media coverage, and I include links to a sampling of it. Please feel free to circulate in your networks.
Pat Mooney, Geoengineering does not deserve serious policy consideration Guardian, 15 June 2011
John Vidal, IPCC asks scientists to assess geoengineering climate solutions: Guardian, 15 June 2011
See also Vidal’s follow-up blog the following day here:
Bonn Climate Summit Diary Guardian, 20 June 2011
UN Scientists Meet to Probe Quick-Fix Options for Fighting Rising Temperature Agence France Press story in Jakarta Globe, 20 June 2011 (reprinted many other places)
Frank MacDonald, Row over talks for scientific fixes for global warming Irish Times, 16 June 2011
IPCC plans sending aerosol “mirrors” to space to tackle climate change Asian News International via DailyIndia.Com, 20 June 2011
Secondly, the letter and coverage has stimulated quite a debate on the geoengineering google group, and many of the people writing on that list have attacked the signatories or claimed they did not know what they were signing. Note that this list is overwhelmingly pro-geoengineering and therefore against everything ETC Group and our allies ever say or do. You can look over the interventions on that list here:
Finally, there is a civil society workshop going on in Peru today as well as a press conference. The best way to follow that, if you speak Spanish, is through the facebook page: Conferencia pública sobre GEOINGENIERIA. Don’t forget to post the press release or link to handsoffmotherearth.org on your own website!
Thanks!
ETC Group and the H.O.M.E Campaign
