Good grief! But...the CROPS method and biochar we can use immediately and catch 15% of global emissions NOW.
Using natural mechanisms is faster, cheaper, smarter. As Greg said. Gregory Benford On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Andrew Lockley <[email protected]>wrote: > I think a better argument against CDR is that it's so slow to act that you > probably wouldn't want to pull down the temperature once it's been high for > so long. > > Would we really want to go right back to pre industrial temperatures > today? If not, why should we assume that future generations will want to go > back to today's climate? Why will they want to go back at all? > > Prevention of rises is preferable to facilitating falls. CDR can't do > that, in practice. > > A > On Jul 2, 2013 8:43 PM, "Rau, Greg" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Klaus Lackner and I tried to inject some hope and optimism into the >> earlier climate change mitigation discussion by Matthews and Solomon: >> http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6140/1522.2.full >> >> M&S reply: >> http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6140/1523.1.full >> >> They summarize: >> "In a discussion of the potential for immediate or near-future action to >> slow the growth of atmospheric CO2, we suggest that consideration of >> carbon dioxide removal (or other geoengineering) technologies would at best >> be not very relevant, and at worst could distract from the imperative of >> decreasing investment in energy technologies that lead to large CO2 >> emissions." >> >> Message to CRDer's: Put down those pencils and back away from the black >> board - you are distracting the geniuses who are going to reduce CO2 >> emissions and you are a potential menace to the planet. That goes double >> for SRMer's. >> >> Greg >> >> -- >> 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. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
