Dear Ken at the Heidelberg summer school there was a two-part question of particular interest; picking apart "climate emergency" and viewing it as a subjective social construct (instead of an environmental tipping point). It's something I have been thinking about in the context of *limits of adaptation. *I can send you more details if needed.
a) The problem: 1) What are the thresholds for various constituencies where the effects of climate change become unbearable? In other words, when can we expect the invocation of "climate emergency"? 2) If there were a sudden, discrete event that were really catastrophic enough to generate a collective understanding of emergency from a critical mass of constituents such that rapid SRM deployment was needed, what would this scenario be? b) The problem is important as the term "climate emergency" has never been properly clarified and is used inconsistently. Identifying national or multi-national levels of climate damage leading to declaration of "climate emergency" would allow to foresee abrupt changes in the political discourse (and possibly willingness to consider SRM deployment). c) One could combine expert interviews with a literature assessment of climate impacts for particular constituencies. A principled approach to identify common criteria for the limits to dealing with these impacts is to be elaborated. Best, Matthias === Am Dienstag, 5. August 2014 20:27:28 UTC+2 schrieb kcaldeira: > > Folks, > > I am supposed to give a keynote talk at CEC14 in two weeks. For this > talk, I would like to try to develop a list of research problems in solar > geoengineering and a list of suspect memes. For this email thread, I would > like to ask > > 1a. What is an important tractable research problems in solar > geoengineering? > > 1b. Why is this problem important? > > 1c. What can be done to address this problem? > > Thoughtful responses would be most appreciated. If you want to start > discussion about a research topic, please do so in a separate thread so > that this thread can be easily used to develop a list. > > Thanks, > > Ken > > _______________ > Ken Caldeira > > Carnegie Institution for Science > Dept of Global Ecology > 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA > +1 650 704 7212 [email protected] <javascript:> > http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab > https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira > > Assistant: Dawn Ross <[email protected] <javascript:>> > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
