One interesting aspect of this discussion is effect on global climate of catastrophic forest fires
Vizy et al, and other authors, have looked at biome scale wildfires, notably in the Amazon region. These have the possibility to affect global climate severely, and potentially (I suggest) induce a sudden disruption to the hydro cycle that may trigger further wild fires. This would appear a sensible target for geoengineering, and 'de smoking' could be a new sub discipline. Does anyone have any ideas? Would cloud seeding or ionization be possibilities worth investigating? Or would management of fire on the ground with controlled burns, bulldozers, etc. be better? A On Sep 26, 2012 4:59 AM, "Andrew Revkin" <[email protected]> wrote: > Just in case it's of interest to those pondering nuclear winter in > relation to the issues at hand, here's what may be a useful benchmark - my > 1985 cover story on nuclear winter science - first time it's been > digitized. Some familiar names quoted. > > http://www.slideshare.net/Revkin/hard-facts-about-nuclear-winter-1985 > > -- > *_* > * > * > ANDREW C. REVKIN > Dot Earth blogger, The New York Times > http://www.nytimes.com/dotearth > Senior Fellow, Pace Acad. for Applied Env. Studies > Cell: 914-441-5556 Fax: 914-989-8009 > Twitter: @revkin Skype: Andrew.Revkin > > -- 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.
