Hello Ken, I think the "urgency argument" points towards early funding of research into promising SRM techniques.
The three ideas that have significant likelihood of being quantitatively adequate, yet need substantially more research (and therefore funding), particularly regarding technological issues and possible adverse ramifications of deployment, are stratospheric seeding, marine cloud brightening and Russell Seitz's micro-bubbles. All Best, John. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Ken Caldeira [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 4:08 PM To: geoengineering 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]<mailto:[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.
