I wrote recently " I dont think the anti geo attempts are having the intended effects. The ETC group's effort to get UN level bans on geo has only succeeded in bringing the whole subject into teh UN -exactly where implementation decisions must be made-eventually.There is no such thing as bad publicity"
Also comments in Josh Horton's recent post "--This is not the same thing as a ban. Rather, this resolution has established a road map for developing international governance mechanisms to regulate (not outlaw) climate engineering techniques. Viewed in this light, the moratorium may turn out to be a hollow victory for opponents of geoengineering that, over the long run, does more to facilitate climate intervention than inhibit it. The Economist this week seems to see the situation even more positively Geoengineering Lift-off Research into the possibility of engineering a better climate is progressing at an impressive rate—and meeting strong opposition Nov 4th 2010 AS A way of saying you’ve arrived, being the subject of some carefully contrived paragraphs in the proceedings of a United Nations conference is not as dramatic as playing Wembley or holding a million-man march. But for geoengineering, those paragraphs from the recent conference of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan, marked a definite coming of age. The three page article is at http://www.economist.com/node/17414216 john gorman -- 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.
