Adam

Do you refer to "black holes" as "gravitationally completely collapsed
objects"?

Snappy terms stick.

A

On 31 July 2017 at 18:37, Adam Dorr <adamd...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I would strongly discourage researchers from using flippant terms such as
> "cocktail" rather than more formal descriptors (e.g. "combined" or
> "integrated" or "multiple", in this case). Careless terminology is likely
> to invite problematic framings in the discourse, which will then present as
> obstacles for effective public understand, policymaking, and governance. I
> am hoping to have have a paper out later this year or next year that
> addresses some of the challenges around CE terminology and framing.
>
> Best,
>
> Adam
>
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> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Christoph Voelker <
> christoph.voel...@awi.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> this engineering approach of separately switching cocktail components on
>> and off is probably not so simple: attribution and detection of climate
>> change are notoriously difficult (which has been exploited a lot by climate
>> change deniers), with the main problem that both require knowledge of the
>> internal climate variability on the time scales considered. A good
>> introduction to the subject is the chapter 9.1.2 in the 2007 IPCC report:
>>
>> https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch9s9-1-2.html
>>
>> Cheers, Christoph
>>
>> On 31.07.17 16:23, Stephen Salter wrote:
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>> Florian is worried about separating the effects of different components
>> of a mixture of cocktails.  It should be possible to do this for techniques
>> with a high frequency response by turning them on and off with different
>> random sequences and correlating the results at different observing
>> stations.
>> Stephen
>>
>> On 31/07/2017 12:58, Andrew Lockley wrote:
>>
>> As long as the effects were largely exclusive, cocktail geoengineering
>> could greatly reduce impacts from side effects, as they may have non-linear
>> impacts.
>>
>> For example, techniques A&B have two different side effects, each with
>> damages proportional to the square of the dose. Both are equally damaging.
>> A combination of the two therefore leads to lower side effects that each
>> alone.
>>
>> A
>>
>> On 31 Jul 2017 12:53, "Florian Rabitz" <florian.rab...@ktu.lt> wrote:
>>
>>> I guess a major problem with a cocktail approach would be the
>>> amplification of uncertainties. How would we be able to attribute
>>> the outcomes to either technique? An increase in global precipitation
>>> might result either from the effect of CCT being larger-than-expected
>>> or from the effect of aerosols being smaller-than-expected (vice versa
>>> for decreasing global precipitation). Seems like this would require
>>> a lot of fine-tuning. Also, in my view, the governance implications
>>> don't look pretty.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Florian
>>>
>>> On Monday, July 31, 2017 at 1:26:58 AM UTC+3, Andrew Lockley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.tribuneindia.com/mobi/news/science-technology/res
>>>> earchers-propose-cocktail-geo-engineering-to-save-climate/443998.html
>>>>
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