Hey David, That's really awesome you got to teach undergraduates about various geoengineering techniques. I'm really curious - what were the reactions and discussions like around solar radiation management?
-A On Tuesday, 16 February 2021 at 6:36:15 pm UTC+11 Andrew Lockley wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: david emerson <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021, 21:49 > Subject: [CDR] Geoengineering Course > To: Carbon Dioxide Removal <[email protected]> > > > Hi All, > > I’m not a regular contributor to this group, but thought I would share > some reflections on a course I recently finished teaching on > Geoengineering to undergraduates (freshmen/sophomores) at Colby College. I > am a microbiologist interested in ocean fertilization, and taught the > course with my Bigelow Laboratory colleague, Ben Twining (an > Oceanographer). This was a 4 week intensive course, in person. It was a > small class, but students were very engaged with a combination of lecture > and class presentations. We were able to bring in, via Zoom, both local > (within Maine) experts, as well as national experts, in different aspects > of Geoengineering, including Wil Burns. With such a diverse subject area, > these guests really added a lot to the class. Interestingly, we began the > class asking what’s in the name, Geoengineering, and ended the class asking > what we should call future classes. We went back and forth with Climate > Intervention and Climate Management, as well as Geoengineering, but > couldn’t come up with a definitive recommendation. > > I came into the class with knowledge of iron fertilization, but only > general familiarity with other CDR methods. Needless to say, both Ben and I > learned a lot. The primary lesson this course brought home to me was that > there’s not going to any panacea regarding NET’s or SRM -- no penicillin > just waiting to be accidentally discovered. It’s going to be hard work > involving natural scientists, social scientists, engineers, business and > marketing sectors combined with political will. Once there’s enough > acceptance that maintenance of the Earth System itself has value, I expect > human ingenuity will find a way to curb the excesses of the Anthropocene. > The encouraging thing about teaching a course like this is that the youth > are getting message, and that’s going to make a big difference. I highly > recommend getting involved in teaching about Geoengineering (or whatever > you wish to call it) if you get the chance. > > I’ve attached our syllabus in case anyone is interested, and a fun class > exercise we did in attempting to assign costs to different Geo-engineering > approaches. We spent over an hour on this, and got a third way through, > lots to debate. > > Best, David > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Carbon Dioxide Removal" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/CarbonDioxideRemoval/644aa7f0-098c-4c1e-9eb9-baba9ad887f0n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/CarbonDioxideRemoval/644aa7f0-098c-4c1e-9eb9-baba9ad887f0n%40googlegroups.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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/dd91377f-6a6a-4401-9dab-ec876f90fce0n%40googlegroups.com.
