That's classic moral hazard On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, 09:38 Stephen Salter, <s.sal...@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi All > > Let us agree that 'there is simply no substitute for decarbonisation'. > > But doing it will be difficult and slow. > > Geoengineering will give more time and so make it slightly less difficult. > > Stephen > > > Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design. School of Engineering, > University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3DW, Scotland > s.sal...@ed.ac.uk, Tel +44 (0)131 650 5704, Cell 07795 203 195, > WWW.homepages.ed.ac.uk/shs, YouTube Jamie Taylor Power for Change > On 05/09/2019 22:23, Andrew Lockley wrote: > > https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2019.1654255 > > > ABSTRACT > To halt global warming, the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere > by human activities such as fossil fuel burning, cement production, and > deforestation needs to be brought all the way to zero. The longer it takes > to do so, the hotter the world will get. Lack of progress towards > decarbonization has created justifiable panic about the climate crisis. > This has led to an intensified interest in technological climate > interventions that involve increasing the reflection of sunlight to space > by injecting substances into the stratosphere which lead to the formation > of highly reflective particles. When first suggested, such albedo > modification schemes were introduced as a “Plan B,” in case the world > economy fails to decarbonize, and this scenario has dominated much of the > public perception of albedo modification as a savior waiting in the wings > to protect the world against massive climate change arising from a failure > to decarbonize. > > But because of the mismatch between the millennial persistence time of > carbon dioxide and the sub-decadal persistence of stratospheric particles, > albedo modification can never safely play more than a very minor role in > the portfolio of solutions. There is simply no substitute for > decarbonization. > > KEYWORDS: Global warming, geoengineering, climate change, carbon budgets, > decarbonization, climate crisis, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gas > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAJ3C-05MoC_tvWkRgrew8%2BQP%3Dx6%3D1d-_FATdHRSYkQzBPbZ7rA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAJ3C-05MoC_tvWkRgrew8%2BQP%3Dx6%3D1d-_FATdHRSYkQzBPbZ7rA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/705fc82b-a55b-4820-5110-710338b4590e%40ed.ac.uk > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/705fc82b-a55b-4820-5110-710338b4590e%40ed.ac.uk?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/705fc82b-a55b-4820-5110-710338b4590e%40ed.ac.uk > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAJ3C-048Gf%3DHxi651FVaAe719DRaCWGNc41RE6N8f40c4-F4og%40mail.gmail.com.
