Dear All,
I also was at the NASA Ames meeting. It was my first geoengineering
meeting, and it was there that I was struck with the very enthusiastic
endorsement of geoengineering as a solution to global warming by people
who did not seem to be aware of the potential negative impacts. But Lane
and Kheshgi were not among those who were blindly advocating
geoengineering, as I remember it. I agree with Clive that the reason we
are even considering this Plan B is that Exxon and other fossil fuel
companies have had a dedicated campaign to deny anthropogenic global
warming, and that AEI has been part of this campaign, and that if they
were to now advocate mitigation we would not be nearly as interested in
geoengineering. But it was not such a black and white discussion at the
Ames meeting – it was more of a general discussion of geoengineering and
a learning opportunity for many.
It was at the Ames meeting that I wrote down my 20 reasons why
geoengineering may be a bad idea, as I listened to two days of
presentations. (My research program since then has been to investigate
those reasons. I have now crossed out three of them, but added nine new
ones, so the total is now 26.)
Alan
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