Ken writes;
" 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."* having written this : > As surely as C02 can absorb the warming infrared, the strong nuclear force > is millions of times stronger than the chemical bonds that are burst in > unleashing heat from coal... > The sooner the...criminal mischief of Chernobyl is buried under the > foundations of a reactor both safe and sanely contained, the sooner will > civilization cease to be obliged to make a chemical waste repository of the > sky ." > * > **--** *A War Against Fire,* **The National Interest, *Summer 1990 I can scarcely disagree. 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 <moto...@googlemail.com<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 geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
