With respect to climate, the idea that mitigation alone is a full solution to the carbon problem is what is "insane", "delusional", and a "serious deadend". Our current trajectory unequivocally commits us to CDR geoengineering at the very least, and the IPCC is (finally as of the latest assessment) in agreement on this: 1.5 degrees is almost certainly impossible without large-scale CDR, and 2 degrees is very likely impossible without it. As for peak-shaving and preventing the worst effects of climate change with SRM geoengineering, that remains an open debate. I am assuming that Attenborough, Gore, and McKibben are thinking primarily of SRM when they are casting aspersions on geoengineering. But lets see if they still say it is an insane, delusional, and fascist idea when Florida, Beijing, etc. start to disappear underwater in the 2040s...
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Eric Durbrow <durb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Attenborough referred to climate engineering as “fascist" (he meant that a > small group of people would control the climate) and Gore has called it > “insane…delusional". Bill McKibben called it a "serious deadend” > > Is it too late to reach out to environmental leaders and get them to > change their minds for *research* in climate engineering? E.g. an > open-letter editorial in the Times, etc. > > Or do celebrity leaders actually have minimal impact among grassroots > environmentalists and activists? > > > -- > 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 geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://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 geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
