Dear Ken et al. Good question. I would allocate the money to the Arctic. The loss of summer sea ice is real and happening rapidly (within a century from linear extrapolations). I would devote half the money to finding out how serious the loss of summer sea ice would be for the ecology of the region and the other half on research to evaluate the negatives of regional SRM techniques including tropospheric sulfates. The SRM evaluation should include analysis of the difficulty of getting permission to do something: i.e. From the UN or by agreement from the countries of the region. The first step would be to find out how much money is presently being spent on R&D in the region, e.g. on clathrates. With best regards, Bill
Bill Fulkerson, Senior Fellow and LERDWG Chair Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment University of Tennessee 311 Conference Center Bldg. Knoxville, TN 37996-4138 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 865-974-9221, -1838 FAX Home 865-988-8084; 865-680-0937 CELL 2781 Wheat Road, Lenoir City, TN 37771 ________________________________ From: Ken Caldeira <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:08:25 -0700 To: Google Group <[email protected]> Subject: [geo] How would you allocate US$10 million per year to most reduce climate risk? Folks, There is some discussion in DC about making some small amount of public funds available to support SRM and CDR research. In today's funding climate, it is much more likely that someone might be given authority to re-allocate existing budgets than that they would actually be given significantly more money for this effort. Thus, the modest scale. If you were doing strategic planning for a US federal agency, and you were told that you had a budget of $10 million per year and that you should maximize the amount of climate risk reduction obtainable with that $10 million, what would you allocate it to and why? Best, Ken ___________________________________________________ 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. -- 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.
