Eugene cc list Since I can't imagine that you can believe you can convince me on any of your topics below, I presume that you meant this to go to the full list.
Ron On Feb 17, 2014, at 8:09 AM, euggor...@comcast.net wrote: > What is the proof that carbon reduction plays any significant role in cooling > or geoengineering? Carbon may or may not be a source of warming but no one > has proven it. It is totally speculative. Attractive ;perhaps but unproven. > If so inclusion of carbon reduction should be qualified as speculative > whenever it is mentioned. Since carbon reduction is part of the thinking of > this group perhaps the first step should be to prove it. If you don't prove > it where does it leave you --- claiming a potential junk idea. Not very > bright !! > > From: "Ronal W. Larson" <rongretlar...@comcast.net> > To: "Oliver Morton" <omeconom...@gmail.com> > Cc: "Geoengineering" <geoengineering@googlegroups.com>, "Emily Lewis-Brown" > <em...@lewis-brown.net> > Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2014 1:50:54 PM > Subject: Re: [geo] Re: What Is Climate Geoengineering? Word Games in the > Ongoing Debates Over a Definition > > Oliver, Emily etal > > The word "decouple" seems too vague. I agree with Emily that if we > use "fossil" we should also mention "land use", but mentioning both doesn't > seem necessary. > > My first concern about the term "geoengineering" is that the primary > emphasis is always on SRM - when that is the most controversial part; not > good PR. Second , Ken Caldeira's placement between mitigation and > adaptation seems helpful but I can't recall a definition that ties them all > together in his circular fashion. Third, we don't here enough on ethics - > which the term "rectification" covers. So here is a first try, fixing these > three concerns. I don't expect it to be taken too seriously, but I feel > better having gotten this written down. What is missing is how to decide > what to do with both - neither, one or the other, or both. > > Geoengineering consists of two mostly unused types of technologies that > follow mitigation (relatively low cost carbon reduction through energy > efficiency and renewable energy) but precede high cost adaptation (minimizing > future damages) and rectification (financial compensation for the most > harmed)). Close to mitigation are the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) > technologies, that are low risk and can be started now, but are relatively > expensive. Close to adaptation are solar radiation management (SRM) > technologies, which are low cost, but do not address ocean acidification, are > risky, and will require new time-consuming international treaties, before > being able to then react quickly. > > Ron > > > On Feb 16, 2014, at 5:20 AM, O Morton <omeconom...@gmail.com> wrote: > <snip as not relevant to this exchange> -- 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.