Alan and list:
1. This is to ask for a clarification on your sentence from below:
> Hamilton correctly explains my arguments against a gradual ramp up of
> geoengineering as proposed by David Keith, and the lack of a rebuttal in
> Keith's book.
Do you support the ramp up of at least some forms of CDR - as I think
urged by the authors of the WG3 report?
2. I haven't the foggiest idea how Prof. Hamilton would respond - as
(at least from the abstract), he doesn't seem to recognize that the CDR portion
of geoengineering was considered part of mitigation. Anyone read the whole BOS
article to know if he makes any CDR distinction there? That is - what is his
view of the latest AR5 report? My belief is that his book sees CDR as
"benign".
3. This is another example of a need for new nomenclature for the
topics being discussed on this list.
Ron
On Apr 23, 2014, at 1:47 AM, Alan Robock <rob...@envsci.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Geoengineering and the politics of science, by Clive Hamilton
> Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, April 16, 2014, doi: 10.1177/0096340214531173
>
> http://bos.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/04/15/0096340214531173.abstract.html
>
> The latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
> include an assessment of geoengineering--methods for removing carbon dioxide
> from the atmosphere, or cooling the Earth by reflecting more of the sun's
> radiation back into space. The IPCC assessment signals the arrival of
> geoengineering into the mainstream of climate science, and may normalize
> climate engineering as a policy response to global warming. Already,
> conservative forces in the United States are promoting it as a substitute for
> emissions reductions. Climate scientists are sharply divided over
> geoengineering, in much the same way that Manhattan Project scientists were
> divided over nuclear weapons after World War II. Testing a geoengineering
> scheme, such as sulfate aerosol spraying, is inherently difficult. Deployment
> would make political decision makers highly dependent on a technocratic
> elite. In a geoengineered world, experts would control the conditions of
> daily life, and it is unlikely that such a regime would be a just one. A
> disproportionate number of scientists currently working on geoengineering
> have either worked at, or collaborated with, the Lawrence Livermore National
> Laboratory. The history of US nuclear weapons laboratories during the Cold
> War reveals a belief in humankind's right to exercise total mastery over
> nature. With geoengineering, this kind of thinking is staging a powerful
> comeback in the face of climate crisis.
> ----
> Hamilton correctly explains my arguments against a gradual ramp up of
> geoengineering as proposed by David Keith, and the lack of a rebuttal in
> Keith's book.
>
> But I just want to point out that even though I had a summer job at Livermore
> when I was a grad student 41 years ago, and have collaborated with climate
> scientists there since then on nuclear winter and geoengineering, I am not
> evil and determined to control the world with geoengineering.
>
> Alan
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