Concluding paragraph: "This article is premised upon an assumption that climate engineering field research would not only be a public good, but also a beneficial one. The validity of this assumption relies upon at least two specific future developments. The first is that outdoors research will be able to proceed in reasonable and justified steps in terms of scale, perturbation, and risks generated. This depends upon both the ability of researchers to design informative, low risk experiments and the underlying physical reality of the natural world. The second is that such research is carried out responsibly, in the interests of a broad global public, and consistent with social and legal norms. This remains largely within the sphere of human agency. Scientists, policy makers, and other involved actors can—and arguably have a duty to—act in a manner that maximizes the probability of this path. Compensation for harm as part of a wider international regulatory regime will be necessary for this."
Good to hear that this is in "the sphere of human agency" and reason, and not the work of the devil. The question then is when will humans be sufficiently motivated to install the above and scientifically determine the risk/reward ratio of this approach. This would allow informed public decisions on deployment in the very unfortunate circumstance that human agency and reason continue to fail to adequately address the GHG problem by other means. Greg > On Jul 19, 2015, at 1:05 AM, Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> wrote: > > --047d7bf10b20def3ef051b35e1b8 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Attached. Obtained from : > > http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2630934 > > -- > 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. > > --047d7bf10b20def3ef051b35e1b8 > Content-Type: text/html; ch -- 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.
