Klaus Well said ! Peter On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Klaus Lackner <klaus.lack...@asu.edu> wrote:
> I get it, and I get that intentions matter. On the other hand, we are > globally engineering and energy system (rather than a climate system). It > certainly has in aggregate geo-engineering scale, and also individual > companies operate on truly global scale. That said, this is a form of > geo-engineering, which deliberately ignores the climate consequences. So > maybe we are not geo-engineering the Earth Climate, but we have created an > energy flux that is about 4 orders of magnitude larger than “natural” > energy fluxes flowing into the metabolism of members of a mammalian > species. We consume in the developed countries about 100 times as much > energy per capita as our own metabolism consumes, and in part because of > it, we are able to attain a population density that is hundred times higher > than that of other mammals our size. It also turns out that species of > different size have comparable energy consumption per unit area of land. > We humans have engineered a system that provides a four orders of magnitude > larger energy input. > > > So we are geo-engineering, and we ignore the consequences on the climate. > > > > Klaus > > > > > > *From: *<geoengineering@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Christopher > Preston <christopherpreston1...@gmail.com> > *Reply-To: *"christopherpreston1...@gmail.com" < > christopherpreston1...@gmail.com> > *Date: *Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 7:53 PM > *To: *geoengineering <geoengineering@googlegroups.com> > *Subject: *[geo] Intention matters in Climate Engineering > > > > An introductory blog piece about why intention makes a difference in > climate forcing. > > > > https://plastocene.com/2018/02/20/philosopher-meets- > meteorologist-to-talk-about-climate-engineering/ > > -- > 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. > -- CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: This email message and all attachments contain confidential and privileged information that are for the sole use of the intended recipients, which if appropriate applies under the terms of the non-disclosure agreement between the parties. -- 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.
