Dear Colleges in the subject of Climate Engineering,
if you are doing it now in the USA you could get some questions that could be hard to answer to public perceptions: The USA was a meaningful exception in the Kyoto protocol now wanting geo-engineering tests. At the same time the Kyoto protocol is said to be dead. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,792224,00.html And there are further things: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/oct/06/us-push-geoengineeringThere is a comment on it: “I would like to point out, however, that almost nothing in this article is correct. Vidal (the Guardian author, who I've heretofore much appreciated for his articles on UNFCCC negotiations) misrepresents and embellishes his way into conspiracy theory territory. This is pretty shoddy journalism; I'm putting it up only because I'm starting to understand what it's like to be on the wrong side of knee-jerk 'leftist' critiques” This article, should make us aware of future problems as they could arise in an environment of capitalistic structures and critiques in public perceptions. I beg your pardon, in another case, a "pretty shoddy journalism" made me in Stuttgart before my homedoor in Germany, with S21 actually understand the wrong side of selfish "knee-jerk" 'conservative' advocacy, propaganda. There are definitely not leading the best ideas and solutions of engineers to our future of mobility but some speculative trading and lobbying in our government and that is the reason why heaps are on the street since one year. In short the best thing against ‘conspiracy theories’ a bad image and demonstrations is a maximum of transparency of facts, business structures and multilateral coalitions and the public should be informed about with reliable information. As from first testing to deployment there is at least one decade, a couple of months won’t matter. Next climate negotiations are at the end of November, that will probably fail. Maybe some other climate scientists would like to have some other months to observe the ozone whole over the northern hemisphere in polar spring without additional inferences. After that there could be a suitable constellation and time frame… All the best from Stuttgart, Germany Nadine 2011/10/20 Ken Caldeira <[email protected]> > Folks, > > Please find attached: > > MacMynowski, D. G., Keith, D., Caldeira, K., and Shin, H.-J., 2011. “Can we > test geoengineering?” *Energy and Environmental Science*, DOI: > 10.1039/c1ee01256h. > > We also made a couple of YouTube videos about this paper: > > Doug MacMynowski discussing "Can We Test Geoengineering?" > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0spy0Yn_nko > > Doug MacMynowski and Ken Caldeira in discussion: Can We Test > Geoengineering? > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o8wBo4R7ME > > Enjoy, > > Ken > > PS. Be aware that these videos are extemporaneous talking I believe > without any internal edits, so not everything is said as carefully as one > might have liked. > > _______________ > 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 > > See our *YouTube:* > Sensitivity of temperature and precipitation to frequency of climate > forcing: Ken Caldeira <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDRYM_5S0AE> > Her lab, mules, and carbon capture and storage: Sally Benson speaks to Near > Zero <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMJJn6eP8J0> > > -- > 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.
