Matthias Honegger

Matthias Honegger · Follow 2 min read · -- You can’t build a house on a soft foundation. And you can’t build a roof on two pillars alone. Decisions on the use or non-use of SRM require a strong foundation (of responsible and systematic SRM research) and at least three pillars: accessible information (international assessments and summaries), broad deliberation (civil society around the world), and monitoring (detect deployments or large tests).

Matthias Honegger · Follow 4 min read · -- The following are some of the remarks I made at the 2024 Dubai Future Forum. It is encouraging to have this conversation with an increasingly broad and creative community. However, this is still largely an academic discussion, and we need to change this to make it an inclusive, global conversation, incorporating the diverse experiences and knowledge we have around the world. So, what are we even talking about?

Matthias Honegger · Follow 2 min read · -- The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a major ocean current system that regulates climate across the Atlantic, is weakening — and faster than previously thought. A new study published in Nature Geoscience finds that current climate models underestimate the rate of decline because they overlook the impact of melting ice from Greenland and other sources.