"How many carbon credits is a tonne of SRM worth?" Seriously? This is precisely what geoengineering proponents promised that it won't be used for - as a substitute in any way, shape or form to carbon emission mitigation. To get acceptance for the idea of even funding research into SRM or other geoengineering schemes in response to global warming, the repeated promise was that it is not meant to replace emission reductions, only a backup to buy us some time... Using SRM to generate carbon credits is EXACTLY to generate EXTRA carbon emissions allowances - even though all SRM could do, at best, is masking the true impact of the current GHG levels on warming while the spraying is ongoing, without ever removing a single atom of carbon from the atmosphere for which it's to claim carbon credit. In short, SRM will lead to even MORE emissions, not less, and due to the masking and the lack of public awareness that it's the masking that's keeping the temperatures from shooting up even higher even quicker, it just helps keeping business-as-usual longer, on top of ocean acidification, acid rain, potential disruption of regional climate patterns, etc etc.
Maggie Zhou, PhDhttps://www.facebook.com/maggie.zhou.543 On Thursday, August 20, 2015 4:15 AM, Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> wrote: How many carbon credits is a tonne of SRM worth? We could work this out as watts cooling or weight sulphur for weight carbon. Doesn't really matter. Thanks Andrew -- 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.
