Note from the editor: GCRI forgot to post the February 2013 Newsletter on our blog last month, so here it is. Enjoy!
Dear friends,
It is always a bittersweet moment when a close colleague moves on with his career. For the last nine months, Tim Maher has been working as a Research Assistant for GCRI through the Bard College M.S. program in Climate Science and Policy. Now Tim is transitioning back to Bard to finish his degree. His presence will be greatly missed. Everywhere you look within GCRI, Tim’s mark can be seen. He played a central role in getting GCRI’s resources online, in particular the blogs and newsfeeds resource and the organization directory. He co-authored the journal paper Double catastrophe: Intermittent stratospheric geoengineering induced by societal collapse and is lead author on a second paper now under peer review. He helped host GCRI’s nuclear war discussion group, providing technical support to group participants and helping write the summaries. But most importantly, he was part of countless conversations about how to grow the GCRI organization. His presence there will be missed most.
Tim, we wish you the best of luck finishing up your M.S. program.
Sincerely,
Seth Baum, Executive Director
New Articles In IEET And Scientific American
There’s just one news update from January, as we spent most of the month on a private project and longer-term work. The update is two new popular articles, both by Seth Baum.
* Seven reasons for integrated emerging technologies governance, published at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. This article discusses why to include all different emerging technologies in one governance regime instead of handling each one separately. The seven reasons are forecasting, politics, relationships, dual-use technology, risk driven by research and development, lab transparency, and whistleblowing.
* When global catastrophes collide: The climate engineering double catastrophe, published at Scientific American Blogs. This article summarizes the paper Double catastrophe: Intermittent stratospheric geoengineering induced by societal collapse.
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