A useful, very modest investment would be in a research registry, a central repository where folks can post projects, proposals, results, etc. (or at least notices of projects and pointers to more information). Should be public and open, so as to meet transparency often discussed (as at Asilomar) and cover all approaches, from theoretical to field trials, and from and physical to social. Could be done on a shoe-string, I could probably invest a savvy undergrad this summer to help set it up, maybe others? but the community needs to design it, establish some policies, and it could use a few dollars for good structure and web hosting. Bill Travis Center for Science and Technology Policy Research University of Colorado
On Apr 18, 9:08 am, Ken Caldeira <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
