How about one more scenario. The city of LA has been slowly upgrading its buildings sidings and roof to save energy. The effect has been that far fewer fires occur. The city of LA put a lot of the fire hoses on sale on EBay. Now Dr. Brainstorm can finally afford his project, with the help of the BigandRich foundation. Dr B. asks the foundation do you have an application form. Foundation, for what? Dr B. their must be a committee that approves of Geo engineering projects?
Mr. BigandRich says let’s just do it. We cannot what any longer. They hire an out of work Russian ice breaker and all around the Arctic they set up sprayers to inject 25 micron spray into the boundary layer to increase the cloud albedo. The spraying starts. The clouds get whiter. It gets colder. All seems good. Slow though, the salt spray collects on the Arctic ice cap and the little ice crystals start to bore little hole into the ice until it all disintegrates. Please help prevent this nightmare. Oliver Wingenter On Jan 11, 12:14 pm, Oliver Wingenter <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > I think the time is rapidly approaching that a Geoengineering Projects > Evaluation Panel (or something like it) be set up to evaluate and > recommend projects for deployment. > > We don't need the likes Dr. Dogooder, his trusted colleagues, backed > by the Mr.BigandRich Foundation or the Crowned Prince of Dubai going > out and Cowboying it. Plans for a large scale geoengineering need to > well thought out. There exists potential projects that can be done at > the 1 to 10s million dollar range. > > The Board should international in nature and be composed of scientists > from many disciplines. A seemingly innocent regional project may have > the potential to disrupt global dynamics if a key temperature or > buoyancy gradients are disrupted. Plans for a pilot research projects > should be quickly separated from larger scale activities so as not to > burden research as in theLOHAFEX case. The board should have at its > disposal sufficient expertise and resources to do independent modeling > studies to verify claims of the applicant and to bring out possible > unforeseen consequences. The panel’s mission should not be just to > tear down projects but to aim to improve them. > > Sincerely, > > Oliver Wingenter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
