If our climate models were good enough (at a local level) to predict inequities, offsetting compensation might indeed be possible even in an international context. (For more see the link to Earth Times at www.bunzl.org). Assume they are not good enough (at least for now). Assume also, as I and others have argued (see "A Test for Geoengineering?" at www.bunzl.org ), that testing for such inequities is not possible to do within a reasonable amount of time. Then the issue becomes one of negotiating ahead of time for unkown inequeities assumming one only want to proceed with international aquiesence. I see this as a tough condition to satisfy because it involves a decisoin not only under uncertainty but also ignorance. We don't know the probablity or the scale of potential inequities or untoward effects. Martin Bunzl Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
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