A partially remembered quote from an Atlantic article a year ago: "Fighting climate change with particle injection is like trying to fight obesity with a girdle and doughnuts".
—R On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Paul Paryski <[email protected]> wrote: > I submitted a letter (see below) to the editor of the New Yorker about > Michael Specter's excellent May 14th article on technical solutions to > global warming. > > Any comments? > cheers, Paul > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Paryski <[email protected]> > To: themail <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, May 29, 2012 1:28 pm > Subject: The Climate Fixers May 14 > > Dear Sirs, > > Thank you for publishing Michael Specter’s excellent and informative > article on technical solutions to global warming which is, I believe, > probably the most important challenge to our species and, indeed, other > species. As a former chief technical advisor on environmental governance > for the United Nations Development Programme I have followed climate change > and anthropogenic global warming issues very closely primarily through the > IPCC. > > The Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering project is > particularly (no pun intended) interesting and thought provoking even with > its inherent, ecological, environmental and political risks. I wonder if > another approach to particle injection might be adding certain reflective > particles to aviation fuels. Such a solution would be much less costly > than a twelve-mile long pipe held aloft by a balloon and assure global > dispersion at smaller densities. > > Of course, there are many who believe mistakenly that our government is > already adding chemicals to jet fuel creating “chemtrails”. > > Paul Paryski > Santa Fe, New Mexico > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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