To Ken Caldeira and the geoengineering group, Certainly "using the atmosphere as a waste dump" has to stop. If atmospheric pollution can be slowed or reversed then the cause of global security is helped, and I agree that an open-source study is preferable to secrecy. I am puzzled by the absence in your discussions of climate mitigation using the vast storage potential of global soils, the magnitude of which was highlighted by this recent study:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11104-013-1600-9 Speaking of global security issues, there is great promise of enhancing food and water security in areas of the globe with depleted soils, and simple techniques of building carbon storage in those soils are among the cheapest and most effective techniques for what your community calls CDR. Sincerely, Brian Cartwright On Friday, July 19, 2013 11:22:53 AM UTC-4, Ken Caldeira wrote: > > There is no "CIA study". > > There is a National Academy study that is funded by NOAA, NASA, the CIA, > and the National Academy itself. > > All of these parties had a hand in developing the charge to the committee > which is publicly available here: > http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/projectview.aspx?key=49540 > > Neither NOAA, NASA, nor the CIA have anything more to do with this study > other than receiving the final committee report. You too will receive this > same report. > > The panel members are listed here: > http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/CommitteeView.aspx?key=49540 > > We are a diverse groups of academics who share a commitment to openness, > free-exchange of ideas, and transparency. > > I am on record decrying many abuses by the US intelligence community > including what I consider to be criminal drone attacks, secret > wars, surveillance, etc. If I thought that somehow our report was going to > help the CIA do something nefarious, you can be sure that I would not be a > participant. > > I want the US gov't to think through the situation that lies before us > with respect to climate change. If a careful "thinking through" could > occur, I think it would result in greatly increased emphasis on > transforming our energy system into one that does not rely on using the > atmosphere as a waste dump. > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Motoko <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Media coverage for the CIA study. I will keep this up to date for 2 days. >> >> http://www.climate-**engineering.eu/single/items/** >> press-review-cia-is-funding-a-**study-on-ce.html<http://www.climate-engineering.eu/single/items/press-review-cia-is-funding-a-study-on-ce.html> >> >> Greetings >> Nils >> >> -- >> 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 geoengineerin...@**googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> geoengi...@googlegroups.**com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/**group/geoengineering<http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering> >> . >> For more options, visit >> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<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.
