Governance scholars are entirely relevant here. They need not be all well published on atmospheric chemistry. I have my issues with this letter, and the campaign around it, but I think this lot of folks has done plenty of work to be considered relevant and listened to on the topic of a non-use agreement.
On Friday, January 21, 2022 at 11:47:21 AM UTC-5 Andrew Lockley wrote: > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/e2684704-3b0b-43cb-a88d-055c59c5cb91n%40googlegroups.com.
