Still more reporting: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/science/panel-urges-more-research-on-geoengineering-as-a-tool-against-climate-change.html?_r=0
"“The committee felt that the need for information at this point outweighs the need for shoving this topic under the rug,” Marcia K. McNutt, chairwoman of the panel and the editor in chief of the journal Science, said at a news conference in Washington." How refreshing. Is shoving topics under the rug ever an option for an NAS committee, or science in general? Or was the committee referring to the habits of brethren policy- and decision-makers? Greg >________________________________ > From: J.L. Reynolds <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 11:11 PM >Subject: [geo] National Academies reports > > > > >Yesterday , a committee of the National research Council released a two volume >report on climate engineering. They are available here >http://www.nap.edu/catalog/18988/climate-intervention-reflecting-sunlight-to-cool-earth >http://www.nap.edu/catalog/18805/climate-intervention-carbon-dioxide-removal-and-reliable-sequestration >One must register to download, but may read online without doing so. > >The newly renamed Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment (formerly the >Washington Geoengineering Consortium) has handy roundups of media coverage and >NGO reactions. I found the latter interesting, in that Friends of the Earth US >came out fully against climate engineering while the Union of Concerned >Scientists, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Environmental >Defense Fund were supportive of the reports and further research (with varying >degrees of caution expressed). >http://dcgeoconsortium.org/2015/02/10/media-coverage-of-nas-climate-intervention-reports/ >http://dcgeoconsortium.org/2015/02/10/civil-society-statements-on-the-release-of-nas-climate-intervention-reports/ > >The press conference was webcast. Some people “live tweeted” it. See >https://twitter.com/elikint >https://twitter.com/janieflegal >https://twitter.com/TheCarbonSink >https://twitter.com/mclaren_erc > >Cheers >Jesse > >----------------------------------------- >Jesse L. Reynolds, PhD >Postdoctoral researcher >Research funding coordinator, sustainability and climate >European and International Public Law >Tilburg Sustainability Center >Tilburg University, The Netherlands >Book review editor, Law, Innovation, and Technology >email: [email protected] >http://works.bepress.com/jessreyn/ > -- >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.
