Jim
Once hurricanes and typhoons have got going, marine cloud brightening
cannot do anything to stop or steer them. However we might be able to
prevent an increase of sea surface temperatures enough stop them very
young or reduce their severity. Moderate ones are needed to produce
rain on land. Attenuating Haiyann would not have met with strong
disapproval from people in the Philippines.
Stephen
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On 14/01/2014 06:05, Jim Lee wrote:
The abstract mirrors my personal opinions, I think they nailed it.
I am firmly against any solution that involves creating more pollution.
The "chemtrail" community is up in arms over what they think is
"geoengineering SRM" and will rightly "tar and feather" anyone who's
willing to go on record as saying they want to spray the skies. The
outrage should SRM be deployed will be tremendous, and I'll be there
to lead that march.
Thank you to this community for being so willing to openly discuss
your research.
I hope that we can focus on solutions like CDR and albedo enhancement
(as long as it isn't used to steer hurricanes
<http://climateviewer.com/2013/11/08/hurricane-hacking-the-department-of-homeland-security-enters-the-weather-modification-business/>,
nudge nudge)
~ Jim Lee
Climate Viewer News
http://climateviewer.com/
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 7:30:22 PM UTC-5, andrewjlockley wrote:
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2087.html
<http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2087.html>
A quantitative evaluation of the public response to climate
engineering
Published online 12 January 2014
Atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continue to increase,
with CO2 passing 400 parts per million in May 2013. To avoid
severe climate change and the attendant economic and social
dislocation, existing energy efficiency and emissions control
initiatives may need support from some form of climate
engineering. As climate engineering will be controversial, there
is a pressing need to inform the public and understand their
concerns before policy decisions are taken. So far, engagement has
been exploratory, small-scale or technique-specific. We depart
from past research to draw on the associative methods used by
corporations to evaluate brands. A systematic, quantitative and
comparative approach for evaluating public reaction to climate
engineering is developed. Its application reveals that the overall
public evaluation of climate engineering is negative. Where there
are positive associations they favour carbon dioxide removal (CDR)
over solar radiation management (SRM) techniques. Therefore, as
SRM techniques become more widely known they are more likely to
elicit negative reactions. Two climate engineering techniques,
enhanced weathering and cloud brightening, have indistinct concept
images and so are less likely to draw public attention than other
CDR or SRM techniques.
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