Michael, can you please explain why the search would exclude such governance scholars?
To clarify: I have passed on my source's data and paraphrased/extended their comments. I have not expressed a view. On Fri, 21 Jan 2022, 16:53 Michael Thompson, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/e2684704-3b0b-43cb-a88d-055c59c5cb91n%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/CAJ3C-07XRSeRojdHb7cXGpFVkT3y3WvC911egRDkLfuNuHF35g%40mail.gmail.com.
