Air conditioning your house is also “geoengineering”. You are changing the area climate (inside your house) with the intent to minimize heat and humidity.
For that matter, heating your house in the winter is also “geoengineering”. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Rau Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 8:14 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Hester, Tracy; geoengineering Subject: [Bulk] Re: [geo] First U.S. state proposed legislation on climate engineering According to their definition, yes, Ken, you are under arrest: "(6) "Geoengineering" means activities specifically and deliberately designed to effect a change in the area climate, with the intent or purpose of minimizing or masking anthropogenic climate change, including global warning. Such actions may include, but are not limited to, the following: (i) Attempts to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; and (ii) Solar radiation management or cloud whitening, or similar process whereby aerosols, particles, chemicals, gases, vapors, or other compounds are injected into the atmosphere to reflect a portion of the sun's radiation back into space. " I would also warn Rhode Islanders about the use of fertilizer. If we get any inkling that you are adding nutrients to plants for the purpose of increasing CO2 removal and storage, you will be met with the full force of the law. This goes double for soil liming. Don't even think about doing this in the ocean. Meanwhile, continue to emit CO2 to your heart's content. Greg Sent from the Rau's iPad On Mar 22, 2015, at 4:41 PM, Ken Caldeira <[email protected]> wrote: If this is real and not a joke, and it passes in its present form, it seems as if someone in Rhode Island could potentially be fined and imprisoned for planting a tree with the intent of absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. _______________ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 [email protected] website: http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/ blog: <http://kencaldeira.org/> http://kencaldeira.org @KenCaldeira My assistant is Dawn Ross <[email protected]>, with access to incoming emails. Postdoc positions available in my group: <https://jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/dge/> https://jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/dge/ On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Hester, Tracy <[email protected]> wrote: We now have possibly the first state proposed legislation in the United States to control climate engineering efforts. A bill (H-5480) was recently introduced in the Rhode Island legislature that would require any climate engineering efforts to undergo an approval process and two (at least) public hearings. The bill would impose fines and up to 90 days imprisonment for each day that the unapproved climate engineering continues. The bill also gives Rhode Island's environmental agency the ability to enjoin and halt an unapproved project. If you’d like to get more details, you can review the bill itself at <http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText15/HouseText15/H5480.pdf> http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText15/HouseText15/H5480.pdf These local initiatives might pop up in other state legislatures if climate engineering research gains momentum (especially after the NAS reports last month). If so, the prospect of overlapping or conflicting regulations from multiple states will often spur the federal government to impose its own consolidated regulatory scheme to preempt the state efforts. Professor Tracy Hester University of Houston Law Center 100 Law Center Houston, Texas 77204 713-743-1152 [email protected] Web bio: www.law.uh.edu/faculty/thester -- 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]. 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