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In their new Ethical Aspects of Climate Engineering, Gregor Betz and Sebastian Cacean present an argumentative analysis of the CE controversy.

The SRG has produced 5 videos that introduce the argument map on climate engineering. They're available at YouTube.

The SRG makes use of sophisticated argument mapping software. The Open Source Argunet editor is freely available here. Have a look at some sample argument maps.

The SRG welcomes a new colleague. Working within the project "C-E-Thics", sponsored by the DFG-SPP Climate Engineering, Frederike reconstructs and evaluates the CE controversy.

The argument map on developing and deploying CE technologies, authored by Gregor Betz and Sebastian Cacean, has been updated.

The SRG welcomes a new colleague. In the context of the Helmholtz-Alliance EnergyTrans, Christian Voigt is going to analyse public discourse about large-scale energy infrastructure projects.

The SRG welcomes a new colleague: Anna Leuschner has a background in philosophy and is going to investigate methodological issues in climate science.

The SRG has contributed to a newly issued interdisciplinary report on Climate Engineering commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

SRG LOBSTER is partner of the Helmholtz School on Energy Scenarios. Its graduate students investigate the construction, assessment and societal impact of energy scenarios.

The SAGE Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences has been published recently. It contains an article on prediction by Gregor Betz.

Sebastian Cacean and Gregor Betz have mapped the main arguments of the current debate about developing and deploying climate engineering technologies.

A scoping report on ethical aspects of climate engineering, compiled for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research by the SRG, is now publically available.

Does climate engineering research prepare future generations for worst cases? Gregor Betz analyses this argument in a recent article.

Gregor Betz explains, at Uni-Radio Baden, a regional radio station, the scope and purpose of SRG LOBSTER.

A summer school on argument mapping will be held at Bronnbach in August 2011.

The SRG has organised, jointly with Prof. K. Ott (Greifswald), an expert workshop on the ethical aspects of Geoengineering. The workshop was held at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald from September 30 to October 2 2010.

The SRG welcomes a new colleague: Eugen Pissarskoi has a background in philosophy and is going to investigate national energy scenarios.

The SRG welcomes a new colleague: Sebastian Cacean. He has a background in physics and joined the SRG in November 2010.

Recently published national energy scenarios have received broad media attention in Germany. The SRG will examine the report, compiled jointly by Prognos, EWI, and GWS, in a corresponding case study.

Is scientific climate policy advice undemocratic and paradoxical? In its April 22 issue (2010), Nature published a shortened reply to misguided allegations by Pielke Jr.; read G. Betz’s full reply. See also P. Kitcher’s book review in Science, June 4, 2010.