Climate Stabilisation has the benefit of being restrained. It also has a nice association with what ER doctors do in a triage situation. Who knows whether ultimately the patient will live or die, or what their quality of life might be like afterwards--the immediate goal is simply to stabilise their situation. I think that restraint may be the most important attribute of any term used. With restoration you are going to get skewered for presuming to know to what you are restoring. It implies that the unintended consequences are so well understood that we can say with a certainty where we are headed. I think the strength that this community has is its willingness to see this as a question that needs to be asked, rather than a certainty which is already known. We are supporting research into this area in the form of modeling and limited initial trials which will give us more data to inform subsequent decision planning. right?
One has to ask, where are these terms going to be used? I can't imagine a Royal Society study on "Climate Cooling". But then, perhaps I have limited imagination. Refrigeration ... doesn't that use HFCs? (Just pointing out the obvious mental reference). "Climate Mitigation" is another reasonable candidate that at least has the benefit of being echoed by the IPCC. All of this begs the question-- what is the real ability to shift this frame w considerable momentum already? i.e. The Royal Society study is on 'Geoengineering'. Frankly, it could be worse. I think it's the underlying attitudes and the reason they exist that need to be addressed. The name itself is simply the vessel in which they ride. D On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Ken Caldeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to toss two other names into the ring for direct interventions > into the climate system designed to cool Earth's climate: > > 1. *Climate refrigerators *produce *climate refrigeration* > > Literally, "to refrigerate" means in its original sense is "to cool > again". With threatened loss of Arctic systems, "cooling again" is likely > to be the goal. > > 2. *Climate cooler *or *climate cooling *-- Colloquially, a "cooler" is a > "refrigerator" . With the Arctic losses, we may look to the science and > technology of climate cooling to reverse some of the effects of global > warming. > > ___________________________________________________ > Ken Caldeira > > Carnegie Institution Dept of Global Ecology > 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dge.stanford.edu/DGE/CIWDGE/labs/caldeiralab > +1 650 704 7212; fax: +1 650 462 5968 > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
