Greg, Oscar, list
On Feb 15, 2014, at 4:03 PM, Greg Rau <[email protected]> wrote:
> How about:
> "geoengineering schemes seek to mitigate the effect of fossil-fuel combustion
> on the climate in the event that fossil fuel emissions reductions prove
> inadequate to avoid dangerous climate change."
[RWL: Methinks the word "mitigate" has already been claimed for a
"non-geo" activity.
>
> Due to very different risks and benefits, my preference would be to have
> geoengineering be synonymous with SRM, and to treat CDR separately.
[RWL: I like it, but think it is too late to achieve this - especially
with Volume III of AR5 due out soon. Ron
>
> Greg
>
> From: Oscar Escobar <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 12:24 PM
> Subject: [geo] Re: What Is Climate Geoengineering? Word Games in the Ongoing
> Debates Over a Definition
>
>
> I think the most accurate definition of climate geoengineering - Climate
> Engineering or (Insert new term here_________________), should include the
> following concept:
>
>
> "geoengineering schemes seek to mitigate the effect of fossil-fuel combustion
> on the climate without abating fossil fuel use."
>
> David Keith
> Ecyclopedia of Global Change - Environmental Change and Human Society -
> volume 1 (2002)
> Also here:
> "Geoengineering Climate - David Keith - Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical
> Biology - Harvard University - Cambridge, Massachusett
> http://keith.seas.harvard.edu/papers/16_Keith_1998_GeoengClimate_s.pdf
>
> I think this is doubly accurate in the case of fossil fuel CCS and enhanced
> oil recovery with carbon storage. I don't think any level of language
> sophistry, or legalese, will separate this fact from reality.
>
> I have to say that, I understand that the many climate geoengineering schemes
> have many different levels of risk, and other issues such as those raised by
> Dr. Smolker, but I don't oppose them in such a blanketed way.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Oscar E.
>
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