Andrew and List:
Obviously Professor Hume's new book will not provide a happy addition for
those on this list interested in SRM. But not a new view. I can't contribute,
for lack of proper study reasons, but I hope others will.
But I also hope Professor Hume and others would comment on the other
interest of this list - the CDR portion on each of his three points:
Desirable - I take most of the CDR approaches to be "desirable" using the
comparison with controlling local weather. Not addressing rising temperatures
will be based on the undesirable aspect of societal costs and externalities
apparently. Ethical issues are in this first category.
Governable - Mostly, the CDR approaches seem governable - at least to the
extent that parceling out carbon credits obviously will require following some
rules, that we already (sort of) know how to do and are doing.
Reliable - Same response. Funding unreliable CDR approaches won't be
tolerated very long in a CDR market open to all (10?) CDR approaches
Ron
On Oct 13, 2013, at 5:25 AM, Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.mikehulme.org/2013/09/can-science-fix-climate-change/
>
> Professor Mike Hulme's Site« Forthcoming book
>
> Can science fix climate change?
>
> (23 September 2013) ‘Can science fix climate change?‘ I have just submitted
> my full manuscript of this new book title to Polity Press. The book argues
> against the research and deployment of large-scale sunlight reflection
> methods, especially stratospheric aerosol injection, as a response to climate
> change. The book will appear in the New Year as part of their New Human
> Frontiers series. Here is a brief summary:“In this book I outline the
> reasons why I believe this particular climate fix—creating a thermostat for
> the planet–is undesirable, ungovernable and unreliable. It is
> undesirablebecause regulating global temperature is not the same thing as
> controlling local weather and climate. It is ungovernable because there is
> no plausible and legitimate process for deciding who sets the world’s
> temperature. And it is unreliable because of the law of unintended
> consequences: deliberate intervention with the atmosphere on a global-scale
> will lead to unpredictable, dangerous and contentious outcomes. I make my
> position clear: I do not wish to live in this brave new climate-controlled
> world. In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel ‘Brave New World’, his ironic Utopia
> was brought about by totalitarian engineering of the human subject–‘Yes,
> everybody’s happy now’. For those promoting the virtues of designer climates
> the equivalent pathological Utopia would be brought about by totalitarian
> engineering of the planet.”
>
>
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