Excellent news - provided that they also agree simultaneously to immediately cease all emissions of all greenhouse gases from the entire EU. As long as the whole world then ratifies that at Rio then we will probably be just fine. (if sulfur and methane effects don't bite us, that is)
Interestingly, when we played the political games at the banff workshop, we predicted just the kind of position we're now seeing, with Europe in principle-led opposition to geoengineering (despite inadequate global mitigation) and the US bolder e.g. in pushing for research. We've seen similar things before, as Europe has exported its sweat shops whilst pushing union rights and health and safety at home. We Europeans love to 'do the right thing', as long as we don't suffer the lifestyle costs. A On Oct 13, 2011 1:57 PM, "J.L. Reynolds" <[email protected]> wrote: -- 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.
