Agreed- -particularly useful to someone,like myself, with no previous climate background.
john gorman ----- Original Message ----- From: John Latham To: [email protected] ; Ken Caldeira Cc: Climate Intervention ; geoengineering ; Andrew Lockley ; Mike MacCracken Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 7:29 PM Subject: [clim] Re: [geo] MERGING 'climateIntervention' AND 'geoengineering' GOOGLE GROUPS BACK INTO <[email protected]> Hello All, Absence of perfection in any human activity involving more than one person (at most) is virtually inevitable. Overall,I have found the blogs that Ken initiated to be of great value in many ways, and in my view we owe him a hearty vote of thanks, which should also be extended to those others who have devoted a lot of time to keeping them running. Cheers, John. [email protected] Quoting Ken Caldeira <[email protected]>: > Folks, > > The experiment to separate the <geoengineering> group into > <climateintervention> and <geoengineering> seems to have failed in a morass > of confusion and redundancy. > > The original idea was to have one group be more lax, and open to > climate-related discussions and so on, retaining the other for more > narrowly-focused academic announcements and discussion. > > The idea is now is to admit defeat and merge both groups back into the > original <[email protected]>. > > The revamped <[email protected]> will relax its moderation > criteria to be open to geoengineering-related discussion that is not > narrowly focused on geoengineering. However, moderation may be slightly > tighter than with the existing <climateintervention> group. > > Therefore: > > 1. If you are > (a) a member of <[email protected]> and > (b) you are not a member of <[email protected]> and > (c) would like to continue receiving relevant email, > please sign up to <[email protected]>. You can do > this by sending an email to <[email protected]>. > > 2. Andrew Lockley will do the heavy lifting of day-to-day moderation, with > Mike MacCracken and me filling in when Andrew is busy, on vacation, etc. > > 3. <ClimateIntervention> will continue running in parallel for a month or > so, but people who post to this group will be reminded to switch over to < > [email protected]>. > > We hope this better meets the need of this community. > > Best, > > Ken > (following discussion with Andrew Lockley and Mike MacCracken) > > ___________________________________________________ > Ken Caldeira > > Carnegie Institution Dept of Global Ecology > 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA > +1 650 704 7212 [email protected] > http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab @kencaldeira > > -- > 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. > > -- John Latham [email protected] & [email protected] Tel. 303-444-2429 (H) & 303-497-8182 (W) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Climate Intervention" 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/climateintervention?hl=en. -- 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.
