Dear Ron,
I'll know more about WG II and III after the meeting, but for WG I,
Chapter 6 (Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles) will deal with CDR.
For this and the other working groups, you can obtain a list of the
authors from the IPCC website, https://www.ipcc-wg1.unibe.ch/AR5/AR5.html
Alan
Alan Robock, Professor II (Distinguished Professor)
Editor, Reviews of Geophysics
Director, Meteorology Undergraduate Program
Associate Director, Center for Environmental Prediction
Department of Environmental Sciences Phone: +1-732-932-9800 x6222
Rutgers University Fax: +1-732-932-8644
14 College Farm Road E-mail: [email protected]
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551 USA http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock
On 6/17/2011 1:21 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Alan and list.
1. Thanks for sending the brochure on IPCC-5. I see several
places that Geoengineering could appear in each of the four reports,
but the words "Geoengineering" and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) don't
stand out anywhere - much less Biochar or even REDD. Which sections
will the Lima Geoengineering Committee be focusing on (so we can
compare to the last IPCC report). Or has that not yet been established?
2. My main concern is that your Lima group may not include any
person working mainly in Biochar research. If that is the case, how
can one ensure that Biochar literature is considered by the Lima group?
3. The IBI site (www.biochar-international.org) has a Bibliography
of over 500 citations - most are refereed. By searching within that
number I found only three (<1%) that refer to the term
"Geoengineering". The Biochar research community is focused on soil
augmentation, not CDR - even though the latter comes along with zero
conflict and with out-year CDR advantages. I fear that a
Geoengineering panel that includes no-one who has ever attended a
Biochar conference will assume that the Biochar CDR literature is sparse.
In fact there is a lot and rapidly growing - maybe with a
doubling time of about a year. The IBI site for the first five months
of 2011 added 10, 7, 10, 14, and 14 (mostly refereed) citations to
this Bibliography. Does any other part of Geoengineering have this
sort of publication growth? (In addition to the 3 in the
bibliography, there were another 20 news items related to
geoengineering - but I assume that none of those could be discussed in
Lima.).
4. Can you assure me that this rapidly growing Biochar literature
will be acknowledged in IPCC-5? And will not include that from the
anti-Biochar community - which looks scientific, but I believe has
never appeared in a refereed publication. The most recent with 150
supposed references doesn't even name any authors - and yet it will
probably be available in Lima..
Of course, I would hope the same principles for finding applicable
citations apply for all the other photosynthesis-related CDR
approaches. I am guessing that most non-biomass CDR approaches will
be represented at this Lima meeting.
5. As an example of my fears, the IPCC (WG III) has recently
released a massive report on Renewable Energy. There is a fine
chapter (#2) on Bioenergy, with hundreds of citations. See
http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/report/IPCC_SRREN_Ch02 . There is not one
citation on Biochar. The word does not even appear in this chapter
(although BECCS does - very briefly). The problem presumably is
that none of the many knowledgeable authors of this chapter were soil
scientists or working in CDR. Or (hopefully) the RE authors were
passing all of the CDR aspects of Biomass on to the Geoengineering (or
some other?) subgroup.
Thanks in advance for more on any IPCC-5 or Lima meeting details.
Ron
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*From: *"Alan Robock" <[email protected]>
*To: *"Geoengineering" <[email protected]>
*Sent: *Friday, June 17, 2011 8:56:11 AM
*Subject: *Re: [geo] HOME/ETC Group Targets IPCC
Dear Everyone,
This discussion seems to ignore the purpose of IPCC. The job of IPCC is
to assess peer-reviewed literature on the subject of climate change and
report the assessment to the governments of the world to that they can
make informed policy choices. This assessment will include
geoengineering in all three working group reports. I attach a brochure
on IPCC so you can see the titles of the different chapters of each
report.
The purpose of IPCC is NOT to organize research, to conduct research, or
to recommend policies. The purpose of the Experts' Meeting on
Geoengineering to be held in Lima next week, which I will attend, is to
bring IPCC authors from all three working groups together to inform each
other of the work they have done so far, so that each working group
report will be better informed by all the current work in
geoengineering, and so that the reports will not be contradictory or
ignorant of the other reports. The meeting will forge collaborations so
that authors from different working groups will be able to know about
each other and stay in touch over the next 2-3 years as the reports are
finalized.
Alan
Alan Robock, Professor II (Distinguished Professor)
Editor, Reviews of Geophysics
Director, Meteorology Undergraduate Program
Associate Director, Center for Environmental Prediction
Department of Environmental Sciences Phone: +1-732-932-9800 x6222
Rutgers University Fax: +1-732-932-8644
14 College Farm Road E-mail: [email protected]
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551 USA http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock
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