GEOENGINEERING - A Climate Change Controversy
Channel: Mike RASCHKE
Date: 2013-11-28

We, Josh Paul, Mike Raschke, Tim Fingerhut, Lilia Vogelsang, Felicitas von Campenhausen and Laura Metzler are currently enrolled in Sciences Po Nancy doing our Bachelor in Political Sciences. As part of our curriculum we have to attend the course "International Politics of Climate Change" by Professor Francois Gemenne, who is a specialist of environmental geopolitics. 
We have been inspired by his lectures that revealed the tight connections between politics and the climate. In particular his point on geoengineering in one of his lectures drew our attention to this topic. So we were pleased to get chance to dip deeper into the subject of geoengineering when we were working on our climate change controversy for the group assignment.
First each group member did some individual research concerning critical parts of current climate change politics to augment our knowledge on this subject. Nevertheless, we could --encouraged by the reference of geoengineering in one of Mr. Gemenne´s lecture -  quickly focus on geoengineering which is subject of controversial disputes among scientist, politicians and the public.
It was our main intention to share our work with the public and the 'non-scientists' to emphasize the crucial responsibility of everybody to act and to fight against climate change.  Even though we are aware of the fact that not everybody can be an active part of the development on scientifical innovation, we want to raise the consciousness that they can intervene through politics. 
As the majority of the population prefers the passive way to acquire knowledge we decided to carry out our project by creating a draw-my-life video dealing with the political and scientifical dimension of geoengineering and which explains the different technologies used during this process. To make our project accessible to the broad population we have chosen youtube.com as the most available and internationally recognized platform. We hope that our ambition to create an alternative source to high scientifical reports and researches demonstrating the importance of geoengineering is successful.

Thanks for watching and sharing our video!
Josh, Mike, Tim, Lilia, Felicitas and Laura