PR Newswire: Santa Clara County, Earth Day Network, and Foundation for Climate Restoration Announce Launch of "Local Governments for Climate Restoration" Campaign

"With climate restoration as the underlying framework, all jurisdictions can pledge that 100 percent of their electrical power originates from clean renewable sources, that they commit to Building Electrification "Reach Codes" that call for all-electric buildings and electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure during the new construction process, and that they incorporate carbon-negative building materials, including low embodied emissions in concrete to restore our atmospheric carbon dioxide to preindustrial levels." LINK

Cheng, Lijing; et al. (2020): Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019

Cheng, Lijing; Abraham, John; Zhu, Jiang; Trenberth, Kevin E.; Fasullo, John; Boyer, Tim et al. (2020): Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019. In Adv. Atmos. Sci. 37 (2), pp. 137–142. DOI: 10.1007/s00376-020-9283-7. "Because the oceans are the main repository of the Earth’s energy imbalance, measuring ocean heat content (OHC) is one of the best way to quantify the rate of global warming (Trenberth et al., 2016; Von Schuckmann et al., 2016; Cheng et al., 2018). Following reports released in the previous two years (Cheng and Zhu, 2018; Cheng et al., 2019c), this article presents new OHC data for the year 2019. These data reveal that the world’s oceans (especially at upper 2000 m) in 2019 were the warmest in recorded human history." LINK

Newsweek: Smoke from Australia fires has now reached the stratosphere, NASA says

"Smoke from the devastating bushfires in Australia has traveled so high it has reached the stratosphere—the second major layer of Earth's atmosphere. It has also completed a full circuit around the world, arriving back in the skies over the country where it was produced, according to NASA." LINK

Brochure SPP 1689

Climate engineering and our climate targets – a long-overdue debate

This publication was produced in 2019 as part of the public outreach work under the DFG Priority Programme, with only minor changes made for the English-language edition compared with the German edition. Its aim is to promote open social and political debate that is informed by the best available knowledge about the possibilities and risks of the various climate engineering ideas.

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SPP 1689 Workshop Report: SCENARIOS ON STRATOSPHERIC ALBEDO MODIFICATION DEPLOYMENT IN 2030

Link to online version.

SSP1689_Workshop Report_scenarios.pdf (6.4 MiB)

Modelling in Climate Engineering Research: Significance and Uncertainties

This brochure shall help to understand the functioning, limits and possibilities of modelling to help joining the discourse on CE. (Link to online-PDF)

Modelling in Climate Engineering Research (19.8 MiB)

Science and Responsibility

Leaflet with impressions from the analysis of the SPP 1689 within the sub-project SciPol (german).

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Faltblatt »Wissenschaft und Verantwortung« (german) (495.5 KiB)

Faltblatt Naturwissenschaftler antworten Journalisten

Einige Naturwissenschaftler aus dem Schwerpunktprogramm antworten hier professionellen WissenschaftsjournalistInnen vom „Nationalen Institut für Wissenschaftskommunikation“ (Karlsruhe) auf konkrete Fragen zu ihrer Wissenschaft.

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Faltblatt Naturwissenschaftler antworten Journalisten (download) (600.4 KiB)