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Researching geoengineering: should not or could not?

Published 30 October 2009 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Focus on Climate Engineering: Intentional Intervention in the Climate System Citation Martin Bunzl 2009 Environ. Res. Lett. 4 045104 DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045104

1748-9326/4/4/045104

Abstract

Is geoengineering a feasible, sensible, or practical stopgap measure for us to have in our arsenal of potential responses to global warming? We do not know at this point and so it seems hardly contentious to claim that we should find out. I evaluate a moral argument that we should not try to find out and a methodological argument that even if we try, we cannot find out. I reject the first but end up as agnostic on the second, outlining the burden of proof that it creates for proponents of geoengineering research.

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