In the three years that I have been involved there has been a dramatic change in attitude. Three years ago most climate scientists wouldnt even mention geoengineering. It wasnt politically correct. Now the Royal society, Sir David Attenborough and The American Meteorological Society (Ken,s email half an hour before yours) are all saying we have to use geoengineering because;
-"-the threat of climate change is serious. Mitigation efforts so far have been limited in magnitude, tentative in implementation, and insufficient for slowing climate change enough to avoid potentially serious impacts. Even aggressive mitigation of future emissions cannot avoid dangerous climate changes resulting from past emissions, because elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations persist in the atmosphere for a long time." etc.etc. Up to now the English speaking media- the science correspondents- went along with the climate academics and tried to rubbish geoengineering in articles and I am not sure that they have noticed the change in scientific attitude yet. Hopefully they will soon and many of us are pinning hopes on the new Royal Society report due on 1st September. Interesting that there is very little denate in Germany. I did wonder. John Gorman Engineer -not climate scientist. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thilo" <[email protected]> To: "geoengineering" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 10:41 AM Subject: [geo] Media Coverage > > Hi! > > Has anyone been tracking more or less systematically english media > coverage of geoengineering (or related) issues? Which newspapers or > magazines have been particularly active reporting? The University of > Heidelberg (Germany) is about to launch an interdisciplinary research > project concerned particularly with the socio-political dimensions of > proposed GE schemes. I'm trying to collect different perspectives on > the topic but the german debate is pretty much non-existing. I'd > appreciate any hints! > > Thilo > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
