HR: 12:10h
AN: GC52A-12    [Abstracts]
TI: Geoengineering and the Problem of Comparative Judgments of Harm.
AU: * Bunzl, M
EM: bunzl@rutgers.edu
AF: Rutgers University, Initiative on Climate Change, Social Policy and Politics, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, United States
AB: Suppose geoengineering "works" and that there are no competing antagonistic interventions. Even on this rosy scenario, it is extremely unlikely that it will "work" for everyone since (as Schneider pointed out many years ago) there is no reason to think the effects of geoengineering will offset the effects of global warming locally. It may seem obvious that at best then, the benefits of geoengineering will be unequal and at worst, some will benefit while some will be harmed. I argue that this is a much harder claim to formulate operationally than one might think since it is by no means clear what the appropriate base line for making such judgments is, nor whether such base lines are commensurable.
UR: http://www.ccspp.rutgers.edu
DE: 6304 Benefit-cost analysis
DE: 6309 Decision making under uncertainty
DE: 6620 Science policy (0485)
SC: Global Environmental Change [GC]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting