Ms. Deschambault (cc geoengineering list) : Your six page communique to this list cited below fails to take sufficiently seriously the present climate situation - about which you make essentially no mention. To equate all of geoengineering to artificial intelligence.and genome mapping doesn't at all capture the seriousness of global warming.
Your proposed policy alternatives, in the six bullets preceding your final paragraph, offer no hope for getting back to 300 or 350 ppm. The one that comes closest, (and which probably 100% of the geoengineering community can endorse) is when you say: " Cut GHG emissions directly and deeply" My concern: You presumably are still opposed to all CDR (carbon dioxide removal) techniques - such as tree planting and biochar. These approaches which clearly remove past GHG emissions are in the CDR subset of geoengineering. If these are to be banned (your term in bullet #1), I should like to know the ETC rationale for differentiating between past and future GHG emissions. Or do I misread your intent on "removal" as opposed to "cut" in this article? And why is the term "CDR" not once mentioned in this article. Ron ----- Original Message ----- F"rom: "etcgroup" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:03:00 AM Subject: [geo] The Artificial Intelligence of Geoengineering. Dear all, please find pasted below a link to a new piece published yesterday by ETC Group titled 'The Artificial Intelligence of Geoengineering" that you might find interesting. http://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/AI_Geoengineering_Governance_130119.pdf Best regards from a very cold Ottawa. Joelle Deschambault Programme Administrator/Office Coordinator ETC Group -- 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.
