So extensive, un-announced , un-reviewed and un-regulated a climate intervention must surely contravene the London Convention!
On Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:12:18 PM UTC-4, Ken Caldeira wrote: > > http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231011007722 > > Atmospheric > Environment<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13522310> > > Volume 46<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13522310/46/supp/C>, > January 2012, Pages 545–553 > [image: Cover > image]<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13522310/46/supp/C> > Regional warming from aerosol removal over the United States: Results > from a transient 2010–2050 climate simulation > > - L.J. > Mickley<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231011007722#> > a<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231011007722#aff1> > , [image: Corresponding author contact > information]<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231011007722#cor1> > , [image: E-mail the corresponding author] <javascript:>, > - E.M. > Leibensperger<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231011007722#> > a<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231011007722#aff1> > , > b<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231011007722#aff2> > , > - D.J. > Jacob<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231011007722#> > a<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231011007722#aff1> > , > - D. > Rind<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231011007722#> > c<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231011007722#aff3> > > > We find that > removing U.S. aerosol significantly enhances the warming from greenhouse > gases in a spatial pattern that > strongly correlates with that of the aerosol. Warming is nearly negligible > outside the United States, but > annual mean surface temperatures increase by 0.4 - 0.6 K in the eastern > United States > > > This article suggests that "inadvertent regional geoengineering" is > already cooling the US by about 0.5 C in the eastern US. Note that they > find little effect outside of the "geoengineered" region. > > (This came out last year but I missed it then.) > > > _______________ > Ken Caldeira > > Carnegie Institution for Science > Dept of Global Ecology > 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA > +1 650 704 7212 [email protected] <javascript:> > http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab @kencaldeira > > *Caldeira Lab is hiring postdoctoral researchers.* > *http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/Caldeira_employment.html* > > Check out the profile of me on NPR's All Things > Considered<http://www.npr.org/2013/04/22/176344300/this-scientist-aims-high-to-save-the-worlds-coral-reefs> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
