I think you all miss a point. Warming is ongoing on average with or without AGG. It has been warming for tens of thousands of years; slowly and not montonically but warming from a global average base of 10 to 12 C. AGG has hastened the pace. On that basis geoengineering ultimately becomes essential. In the short term it may buy valuable time to reduce CO2 concentration. Longer term it may save the day. How can you ignore that alternate justification for geoengineering.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gus Lamb Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:36 AM To: Alvia Gaskill; geoengineering Subject: [geo] Re: Televised debate Dear Alvia and Samuel, You're right, that was bad phrasing on my part. In any case we would not take that university debating club approach of debating a 'statement' - I was just trying to get the idea across... Best, Gus On 30/04/2009 15:26, "Alvia Gaskill" <[email protected]> wrote: > Why the hell would anyone agree to a debate based on such a strawman > argument? Almost no one involved in geoengineering research or > discussion would agree with your premise. We all agree that reducing emissions must > proceeed at an expedited, but realistic pace. Geoengineering is simply to > buy time and prevent accumlating irreversible damage along the way. A > better debate topic would be whether or not geoengineering should be > done at all, addressing the major arguments for and against that we > here are all too familiar with, but that the public or whatever your > audience consists of is not. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gus Lamb" <[email protected]> > To: "geoengineering" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:03 AM > Subject: [geo] Televised debate > > >> >> Dear all, >> >> We at One Planet Pictures are interested in setting up a televised >> debate on geoengineering. Something on the lines of: "This house >> believes we should give up trying to reduce emissions and concentrate >> instead on finding a technofix". >> >> Can anyone suggest any companies or institutions that might be >> interested in sponsoring such a debate? >> >> Many thanks >> >> Gus >> >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
