The last week or two of discussion here has been interesting as we have zoomed out to very broad issues of governance and strategy and zoomed in to very specific single issues. I will confess that I am having some difficulty maintaining a synoptic view of the discussion, by which I mean keeping simultaneously in mind both the broad sweeping categories (SRM, CDR, mitigation, adaptation, warming) and the details of the particular issues (how many of Alan Robock's 26 reasons really apply to MCB? what sort of nozzles are best? where should they be deployed ? and, less noble ad hominem questions)This is an interesting domain where the discussion ranges from macro to micro quite fluidly. As we have also learned in the past weeks it is a domain that is rapidly becoming politicized and alas somewhat polarized.
I wonder 1) if others share this sense of cognitive challenge and 2) if others have any thoughts about how we (broadly construed, i.e. homo sap, scientists, policy makers, the public) can maintain an adequate shared awareness for effective decision making about GE. My thoughts are inchoate, but I recall among other things a) the IPCC process for climate change b) calls for transparency, registries, monitoring of GE research c) David Keith's interesting proposal for regulating on the basis of expected radiative forcing d) Google's EarthEngine http://earthengine.google.org/#intro and wonder if perhaps these are the seeds of something. Think five years ahead and outside the box: what human and technical systems can we put in place that will facilitate making good decisions about GE? --- Fred Zimmerman Geoengineering IT! Bringing together the worlds of geoengineering and information technology GE NewsFilter: http://geoengineeringIT.net:8080 -- 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.
