Hi Its unfortunate that BBC is still discussing Urea fertilization of oceans when much more sophisticated solutions are available.
Bhaskar On Jun 17, 7:43 pm, Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Just watched it athttp://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.
