It is hard to adduce natural analogs to phenomena that do not exist , for example, the instantaneous appearance of a global homogeneous soot cloud with an optical depth of twenty, which was the parametric basis of the apocalyptic TTAPS model that climatologists Starley Thompson and Steve Schneider laid to rest in their 1986 *Foreign Affairs* article, 'Nuclear Winter Reappraised ':
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20042777 One very large regional fire did however overlap the lower range of the TTAPS scenarios- the Siberian forest fires of 1915, which I discusssed in * Nature* *323*, 116 - 117 (11 September 1986); doi:10.1038/323116a0 On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 3:17:31 AM UTC-4, andrewjlockley wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/geoengineering/-/jFkm0DQVNxAJ. 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.
