Hi Just watched it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk25
You can view it through a UK proxy if you're overseas. I thought it was rubbish. The presenters had been very poorly briefed and failed to explain the technologies at all. The options were presented as 1) space mirrors, 2) urea fertilisation of the oceans, or 3) chemical CO2 scrubbing. Later they discussed sulfur, but without giving any real context. The whole discussion seemed predicated on the argument that GE might be a bit more deliverable than emissions cuts. The Greenpeace guy didn't give Ken the roasting I was expecting, but he basically put forward the argument as "loft insulation vs geoengineering". We need to put across to the public that it's not like that. In fact, it's more likely that it's "loft insulation plus everything else we can think of plus geoengineering and then if we're really lucky we might not have a mass extinction". Ken mentioned the methane issue, but didn't get the opportunity to present the implications properly. To my ear, it completely missed the point that we're just about to sail over the waterfall in a barrel, and GE might offer a paddle (or a parachute) to save us from what could just out to be a re-run of the PT Mass Extinction. To me the whole presentation of the issue lacked the abject screaming panic that the science suggests is necessary. It made me want to shout at the screen. But hey, maybe I'm just a doom-monger, and we'll all just be fine. Normally I like being smug and right but it won't do me much good if everyone's dead. A On 17 June 2011 05:37, Ken Caldeira <[email protected]> wrote: > I was on BBC TV (UK) Newsnight at 23:03 on 16 June 2011 with Doug Parr of > Greenpeace for a short discussion about geoengineering. > > Unfortunately, I do not think it is available for streaming (at least not > outside of the UK). Did anybody see it? > > Just wondering how it came off. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm > ___________________________________________________ > 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.
