Hi Folks, Ken, on the issue of media support, what about a new website;
As this group knows, the issue of GE has a need for broad public education on the many important issues within the general topic. An established PR firm would be a good investment at this time. Yet, who and what will the PR organization represent? Also, who will pay for building public support for a "concept" which has no product and has no current industry. I believe that a volunteer core of interested individuals can be a good start. Boot strapping up this type of network will take time and maybe some support from the "professional" level researchers/institutions in the form of an educational syllabus(s). It would be important to have this peer accepted information prepared at different educational levels. A mirror site to this group, which would provide translations/clarifications and background information, may help counter some of the PR damage some of the fringe groups are causing. The amateur class scientist has a long history of important contributions throughout the history of science. On the issue of GE, that class of interested layperson can help translate the science into street level language. Simply finding ways and funds to actually translate the core science papers is an issue that should get some attention. I have had folks in Japan expressing frustration over the lack of translated documents on this issue. Finding means to translate for just the top 10 languages would be a large chore. However, this effort would provide an opportunity to distill down to the core documents which are needed to understand the current environmental/policy situation and the key papers addressing the actual science/technology of any plan of action. Yes, anyone with a true interest can search out and find all of that type of info within a few web sessions. Yet, I do believe a website of "Cliff Notes" for internet GE literature search is justified at this point. I also believe it should be kept up to date each day. Finding access to graphics production for use in this effort is important for obvious reasons. The few websites which mimicked ETC's Open Letter used the same "Contrail" picture. No surprise there, however my point is that all tools will be used against GE and many of those same tools will need to be used in countering these attacks. Many of the main GE concepts provide graphics, yet being able to develop new graphic as issues progress will help to a large degree. Being able to offer to members of the public graphics developement to illustrate a new idea would be a big draw to such a site. If an interested person can describe a "new and useful" concept to the group at a satisfactory level, they could get help to illustrate it. That would show an openness and inclusion which many would like to see and a diamond in the rough just might show up. As we know, GE has a much tougher battle than the left fringe as GE needs to be ruled by logic/science/technology and practical policy craft (not to mention complete openness in communications). ETC et alia simply has to draw scary pictures and whine about "Elite Northerners" (and time media releases with their buddies). Even so, they have already won an important battle through the Bio-Diversity scam. GE can, has been and will be subjected to these simple strategic and tactical submarine efforts. GE's only option is to simply out educate and out class the foe! Finding the funding for a dedicated website will not be a major challenge and we all know that the funding origin(s) will be subjected to scrutiny. At this time, however, any funding from any source can help the concept of GE weather the strategic attack we witnessed on Monday. It take 3 people to start a 501 c3. It would take less than $900 a month to maintain a well done website and the extra cost of translations/graphics can be subjects of yearly fund-raisers. Give the people of the world the basic information in their own language and give them a way to express their own ideas for helping, and they will want to help. I hope this suggestion helps. Michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/geoengineering/-/0l5JaCf2294J. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
