And speaking of other global inhabitants who are going down with us, the World Science Summit on Climate Engineering might want to consider the plight of the polar bear: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/18/canaries-arctic-new-study-shows-stunning-polar-bear-decline in its deliberations into "what is and is not acceptable for scientists to pursue as members of the scientific [and world] community" and into "structures, strictures, and [sharp] instruments" to keep everyone in line re CE. While it is of course preferable to manage climate and ocean acidity via CO2 emission reduction (to zero), it is abundantly clear that such an approach is failing, and it is not obvious that this is going to change anytime soon. (Witness the non-binding, free pass given to China to increase it's emissions until 2030 when Chinese CO2 emissions will likely be 34% higher than today*.) There is thus an apparent "moral hazard" to Earth habitability of deliberately avoiding a broad, deep, and objective evaluation (I didn't say deployment - that's a different discussion and decision point) of all of our options for global CO2/thermal management. If the World Summit seeks to restrict this search then they and the rest of us including polar bears had better be prepared to live with/adapt to the consequences. Greg
* http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/14/china-carbon-idUSL3N0T41EY20141114 >________________________________ > From: Greg Rau <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; >"[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" ><[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 11:40 AM >Subject: Re: [geo] Agenda - World Science Summit on Climate Engineering - >Washington D.C. December 2nd and 3rd > > > >Looks to be quite an ocean iron fertilization love fest (or smack down). >Who's bright idea was it to have OIF as the poster child for CDR/CE? And how >will this narrowmindedness influence "world" policy decisions on all CDR going >forward? To quote the agenda: >"We will take the next critical step of defining what is and is not acceptable >for scientists to pursue as members of the scientific community. We will >develop a blueprint for a research plan within the framework of guiding >principles for climate engineering research. We will circulate these >principles to the broad scientific community, for endorsement by their >professional societies and associations. We aim to include the broadest >cross-section of the scientific community to define the scope and scale of >climate engineering research that can be reasonably pursued and why. We will >identify the research that falls outside those boundaries, requiring world >scale formal governance structures, strictures, and instruments to implement." > > >Great. Can't wait to be told "what is and is not acceptable for me to pursue >as a member of the scientific community". And without representation at the >meeting. When we make it a crime to freely think and speak in the broadest >terms about how to save the planet and to actively stifle such thinking and >speaking, I'd say we deserve the consequences, though the other species who >will/are going down with us clearly don't. > > >Dr. Greg Rau > >UC Santa Cruz > > > > > >>________________________________ >> From: Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> >>To: geoengineering <[email protected]> >>Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 10:57 PM >>Subject: [geo] Agenda - World Science Summit on Climate Engineering - >>Washington D.C. December 2nd and 3rd >> >> >> >>Attached : >>Agenda - World Science Summit on Climate Engineering - Washington D.C. >>December 2nd and 3rd >>I've yet to discover if any content is being streamed. -- >>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. >> >> >> > > -- 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.
