About that recent letter on "International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering"...
https://www.solargeoeng.org/ It has been signed by "senior scholars", we're told: "...over 45 senior scholars from around the world who are the First Signatories of our Open Letter..." But is this description correct, insofar as the signatories' publication record on this specific subject? I've been asked to share the attached data, by an anon source. It's based on WOS searches, (with a couple of manual amendments for missing pubs). 'Web of science search, topic: "solar geoengineering" OR "solar radiation management" OR "climate engineering" OR "geoengineering" OR "stratospheric aerosol geoengineering" OR "marine cloud brightening" OR "cirrus cloud thinning"' While this search is doubtless neither perfect nor exhaustive, it does not appear obviously biased to me. (I had no role in its generation.) I've added only mean/max/mode info - pasting data to a new file to protect my source. You will note the following key points of information 1) Mode number of topic papers detected among sigs is zero - Only ~1/3 have ever published on the topic. Any "senior" status has therefore generally been acquired in other fields, or not at all. 2) Max pubs is 8 among signatories (FYI same as me - and am an unwaged RA with no PhD, and not by any sensible objective definition a "senior scholar"). 3) Of the top ~400 authors on solar geo, only 7 have signed their letter. (<2%) 4) Mean publications of signatories <1 5) Max pubs of non-signatories is over 10x that of signatories As always, I express no opinion. You can form your own view, based on the facts, as to whether these signatories are accurately described as "senior scholars", wrt to this specific letter. Andrew -- 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-04ZMTp75MmSfji6PajrK_ujRe208kqxk_sx1MZ9AL8AuQ%40mail.gmail.com.
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