Many thanks for all Ken, Mike, Andrew, John Latham, John Gorman and other colleagues are doing to protect biodiversity from massive extinction and preserve Earth's ecology from irreversible degradation.
I hope it is all right for me to post now here a presentation on the issue of population, that appears to have everything to do with climate change. As humanity's most luminous beacon of truth, science provides us with a last best hope for the survival of life as we know it on Earth. We must make certain that scientific evidence is never downplayed, distorted and denied by religious dogma, politics or ideological idiocy. Let us not fail for another year to acknowledge extant research of human population dynamics. The willful refusal of many too many experts to assume their responsibilities to science and perform their duties to humanity could be one of the most colossal mistakes in human history. Such woefully inadequate behavior, as is evident in an incredible conspiracy of silence among experts, will soon enough be replaced with truthful expressions by those in possession of clear vision, adequate foresight, intellectual honesty and moral courage. Hopefully leading thinkers and researchers will not continue supressing scientific evidence of human population dynamics and instead heed the words of Nobel Laureate Sir John Sulston regarding the emerging and converging, human-driven global challenges that loom ominously before humankind in our time, “we’ve got to make sure that population is recognized.... as a multiplier of many others. We’ve got to make sure that population really does peak out when we hope it will.” Sir John goes on, “what we want to do is to see the issue of population in the open, dispassionately discussed.... and then we’ll see where it goes.” In what is admittedly a feeble effort to help John Sulston fulfill his charge to examine all available scientific evidence regarding human population dynamics, please give careful consideration to the following presentation and then take time to rigorously scrutinize the not yet overthrown science from Russell Hopfenberg and David Pimentel regarding human population dynamics and human overpopulation. http://www.panearth.org/GPSO.htm Please accept this invitation to discern the best available science of human population dynamics and human overpopulation; discover the facts; deliberate; draw logical conclusions; and disseminate the knowledge widely. Thank you, Steve Salmony -----Original Message----- From: John Latham <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; Ken Caldeira <[email protected]> Cc: Climate Intervention <[email protected]>; geoengineering <[email protected]>; Andrew Lockley <[email protected]>; Mike MacCracken <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Mar 13, 2011 3:29 pm Subject: 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 "geoengineering" group. 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