Hi Dan & Robert

I didn't pick up on the insanity point in my response to Robert's post because I thought it a bit odd.  What Einstein said was that 'insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.'  If we apply that to our current discussion, it's not the decarbonisation of the energy supply and GGR that we're repeating, we're not actually do that much of either.  The growth in renewables has yet to exceed the growth in energy consumption, and GGR is virtually non-existent.  The behaviour we are repeating is the emission of GHGs by burning fossil fuels.  The question here is not whether I'm insane, I may or not be, but whether I'm right.  I could be both!  Similarly, the question is not whether Robert's preference to maintain emissions and offset their warming effect with AM marks him out as insane, which he may or may not be, but whether he's right. Which offers the better approach to 'preventing dangerous human interference in the climate system', that's all that matters. Either way it's a judgement call.  Our grandchildren will be the jury, or rather those of them that survive long enough will be.

It is worth remembering that human history is replete with cases of insanity caused by the failure of the wider community to heed later to be proved correct warnings from those whose contrariness was dismissed as crazed.  Being insane is no bar to being right.

And the 'weasel words', ah yes, the weasel words. There I plead guilty.  I didn't used to use so many of these little qualifiers but my bumbling attempts to make my utterances more robust and less vulnerable to pedantic attacks, and generally to follow the practice I observe from seasoned academics who are always careful not to over-claim their findings, has caused me to introduce more of them.  I still find it quite challenging to strike a balance between being authoritative and being an opinionated bigot.  I'd really value helpful tips on how to handle this from those of you with relevant experience.  But please, not through the listservs, it might upset the moderators as being a bit off-topic.  (NB: Experience has painfully taught me that even between Anglophone communities there is wide cultural semantic diversity. Accordingly, to avoid any possible misunderstanding, I feel obliged to issue a weaselly 'irony alert'.)

Robert Chris

On 01/06/2022 15:32, Dan Galpern wrote:
Likely here is a good moment to consider whether, as a general rule, when one really finds it necessary to call an interlocutor "insane," accuse them of employing "weasel words," or the like, it might be preferable to refrain from circulating to the CDR list. I know the list's originator aimed to convey important information and promote thoughtful discussion, so while occasional snark may not be inconsistent with that aim, overt animosity likely is not. [Certainly, at least, I'll try to remember my own admonition before engaging in any posting.]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 5:55 AM 'Robert Tulip' via Carbon Dioxide Removal <[email protected]> wrote:

    1 June Reply to Robert Chris, dot points below

    Robert Tulip

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    *Subject:* [geo] Re: [CDR] Climate Security Timeline

    Hi Robert

    Nothing snide about my comments.  I was merely noting that your
    focus is a climate change policy regime that addresses the
    property rights of the fossil fuel industry, as opposed to an
    industrial policy that responds to the needs of climate change.

      * You are still distorting my view, perhaps understandably as my
        perspective is counter cultural and I have only explained it
        briefly.  The entire point of the house analogy is to
        construct an industrial policy that responds to the needs of
        climate change, so how you could say otherwise is surprising. 
        The “needs of climate change” are for action that stops
        dangerous warming.  GGR and emission reduction can’t achieve
        that on relevant timeframes (effect within decades), so we
        need to research the only method that could, solar radiation
        management, which for convenience and simplicity I call albedo
        enhancement, although it does also include radiation methods
        like cirrus brightening that do not involve albedo.

    It's a subtle distinction but it establishes the order of
    priority.  It may be that that the two are not in conflict and
    therefore the distinction is irrelevant, but if they are, your
    positioning puts the property rights first.

      * The order of priority should flow from defining a critical
        engineering path that can stop dangerous warming.  As in
        building a house, we start with the foundations and then build
        the walls and roof.  We can identify the analogy in climate by
        looking at the triage process.  In any emergency, triage
        requires the identification of the third of cases where action
        can make most difference.  If we triage climate change,
        looking at albedo, GGR and emission reduction, the situation
        is that delaying action on emission cuts would make little
        different to temperature and tipping points, whereas delaying
        action on albedo would make an enormous difference to
        temperature and tipping points.  And GGR cannot have much
        effect for several decades but needs immediate investment in
        order to scale up when needed.  So the rule of triage
        indicates that albedo should be our priority.
      * It just so happens that this analysis can align with the
        commercial interests of fossil fuel companies to preserve
        their business model. Please note I have never had any direct
        contact with the fossil fuel industry, except for a few
        incidental conversations while I ran AusAID’s mining for
        development program ten years ago that went nowhere.  My point
        is not to shill but to understand policy that can actually
        work.  Far from putting property rights first, I am simply
        observing that a policy of expropriating the expropriators,
        despite its revolutionary ring, will inevitably create
        reaction and conflict (Trumpism), and is physically unable to
        achieve key climate objectives.  The expropriation line of
        seeking to strand fossil assets only deals with future
        emissions, not the much bigger problem of past emissions.
        Happily, a policy that sidesteps this conflict is available,
        promoting cooperation on albedo with the fossil fuel industry,
        and with others who stand to benefit from the prevention of
        extreme weather and sea level rise such as insurance and shipping.

    An issue that you'll need to address when promoting an albedo
    management (AM) driven climate policy regime is the substantial
    body of research that suggests that a climate cooled by AM is a
    quite different climate from one cooled by lower atmospheric GHG
    concentrations and quite different from the one we have now.

      * I just don’t think the climate policy regimes based on GGR,
        let alone decarbonisation models, properly factor in just how
        politically difficult it would be for those scenarios to
        produce genuine cooling.  The high risk, identified in
        scientific papers such as Trajectories for the Anthropocene by
        Steffen et al, is that a phase shift would make any scenario
        driven by lowers GHGs irrelevant.  That does not apply for
        albedo driven approaches which are designed to minimise the
        risk of phase shift.
      * I read /The Sixth Extinction/ by Elizabeth Kolbert and would
        like to read her /Under a White Sky/, although the reviews I
        have read suggest she does not quite get the strategic problem
        that indicates the urgent need for albedo increase.

    AM entrains environmental impacts that are different from those
    from unrestrained warming, but not necessarily less impactful.

      * How could AM have worse impactful than business as usual? 
        Higher albedo would directly reverse warming, mitigating coral
        bleaching, poleward migration and numerous other harmful
        environmental impacts.

     In addition, AM does nothing for ocean acidification, which would
    accelerate in your scenario.

      * My friend Stephen Salter explained that his work on marine
        cloud brightening has been no-platformed by the British
        Government for this bizarre reasoning. Nothing will help stop
        acidification until GGR ramps up to a bigger scale than total
        emissions.  Global work on albedo can provide a governance
        framework that will help to optimise work on deacidification
        through GGR.  In the meantime, we should address the immediate
        climate crisis by brightening the planet.  Emissions make
        almost no difference.
      * To illustrate the hypocritical absence of logic and evidence
        among those whose ritual incantation is to follow the science,
        the Australian Greens have a slogan “Stop Adani Save the
        Reef”.  While it is true there are some direct reef impacts,
        the emissions from a single mine have basically zero impact on
        climate change.  The total emissions from Adani would worsen
        warming by about one part in a thousand.  If warming without
        Adani would be four degrees, warming with Adani would be about
        3.99 degrees, a rounding error.

    Your comments about the availability and economics of renewables
    are interesting.  There is certainly not enough of them available
    today but new renewables are already generally cheaper than new
    fossil fuels, and even more so if the imbalance in subsidies were
    addressed.

      * If so, fossil fuels can be allowed to die a natural death
        without government help to smooth the dying pillow.  The
        political backlash from increasing fuel prices is high, and in
        my view is not worth it as a way to save the planet. I tend to
        be suspicious of all such projections on price as there is a
        large element of motivated reasoning involved.

    But much the same could be said about AM.  That doesn't yet exist
    as a deliverable technology at scale, so there's an equal timing
    problem about its availability.

      *  Your “much the same” here is unclear.  A global moonshot
        approach could establish a major albedo industry in this
        decade, largely stabilising the climate by 2030.  That is not
        the case for carbon based solutions.  Research funding can
        ensure any AM deployments are rapid, safe, cheap and
        effective, once the implicit UN fatwa is removed.  Also, the
        accounting for carbon credits needs to change to instead be
        based on radiative forcing, directing investment to the
        activities that are most effective to cool the planet.

    Refreezing the Arctic is a great idea and some people are thinking
    about it.  But no one is doing it.  There's no sense of urgency
    outside of a few academics waving their arms frantically, and
    ignored by most everyone else.

      * I am working quite closely with groups on refreezing the
        Arctic.  Given that Trump’s Secretary Pompeo trumpeted the
        benefits for shipping and mining of an ice-free pole,
        alongside the rather distracted situation at the moment in
        Moscow, getting geopolitical agreement is tough.  I think the
        quid pro quo to bring China into play is likely to be ice
        canals between the Pacific and Atlantic.
      * Antarctica is likely to be easier, with Australia well
        positioned to mobilise a coalition of nations to test marine
        cloud brightening for the Southern Ocean, building upon its
        research for the Great Barrier Reef.  This would reduce sea
        ice melt, glacial collapse, biodiversity loss, sea level rise
        and warming of ocean currents, bringing major benefits and
        providing the governance cooperation model that could then be
        applied in the Arctic where the methane emergency really has
        to be addressed quickly.

    The resources are available to promote either or both AM and
    renewables to get to climatically significant scale within a
    couple of decades.  It's a choice.

      * I dispute that renewables can achieve climatically significant
        scale.  Total annual emissions are 10-15 GtC against a climate
        problem approaching 1000 GtC
        <https://www.globalwarmingindex.org/>. Projections are that
        emissions will barely fall by 2050
        <https://climateactiontracker.org/data-portal/>, despite much
        banging of heads against brick walls and corrupt Borisian spin
        about the wonders of net zero long after current politicians
        have left office. And there is the slight problem that
        accelerating the renewable shift antagonises some rich and
        powerful interests, making it more difficult and risky.
      * By contrast, intensive AM could stabilise the climate in this
        decade, and its main opponents are uninformed green activists.
        Scientists are certainly worried, but can be brought on board
        by rigorous assessment such as proposed by GESAMP
        <http://www.gesamp.org/site/assets/files/1723/rs98e.pdf>.
      * Better to just chill out about the evils of the current energy
        system and put effort into activities that have a prospect of
        being climatically significant.  The carbon-based activity
        with most cooling promise may be converting CO2 into useful
        commodities like soil.  The earth has a billion hectares of
        arable land.  To just toss around an order of magnitude
        illustration, adding ten tonnes of carbon per hectare as
        biochar (1 kg per square metre) to all agricultural soils
        would address 1% of the carbon problem while increasing food
        production, and could probably be scaled up beyond that level.

    Will the fossil fuel industry now start putting some serious money
    into AM to realise the future climate management you envisage?  Or
    are they expecting that this will be funded by the public purse? 
    If so, it'll raise an interesting debate about which is more
    deserving of public funds, renewables or AM.

      * Before private investment can scale up, governments need to
        give regulatory permissions.  I think marine cloud brightening
        for Antarctica could proceed as a public private partnership,
        with industries chipping in to improve their public image and
        to develop the concept of radiative forcing credits.  I cannot
        for the life of me understand why the insurance industry has
        not yet realised that MCB can prevent or mitigate Atlantic
        hurricanes, with all their immense destruction.  It shows
        there are some strange psychological blockages at work in this
        space. Renewable energy does not deserve public subsidy and
        should be driven by market economics.

    Securing social licence for extensive AM is also likely to be
    significant challenge, quite apart from the technology aspects .

      * It is essential to integrate the technological and social
        analysis, for example showing how cooling the planet can
        benefit indigenous and other marginalised people and prevent
        ecological damage.  It is a shame that the great benefits of
        AM have not been properly publicised, and that scurrilous fear
        campaigns have misinformed the public.

    I am fully aware that 80% of energy is currently provided from
    fossil fuels. Indeed, that defines the scale of the problem we face.

      * No, the scale of the problem we face is defined by the total
        amount of carbon in the air, not the pace at which we are
        increasing it.

    I share your scepticism about our capacity to invert that
    percentage, the historical record going back more than 200 years
    demonstrates the unprecedented nature of the challenge.  I have no
    illusions about the likelihood of it being achieved.  While I have
    never doubted that we have the wherewithal to do so, that doesn't
    mean that we can organise ourselves to actually make it happen.

      * I did not suggest cutting fossil energy to 20%, but rather
        targeting that 80% of climate investment should be in
        geoengineering, based on the Pareto 80/20 Principle that 20%
        of work delivers 80% of results.

    Human history is littered with such failures.  The systems point I
    was making is that not doing everything we can to retire fossil
    fuels at the earliest opportunity, is a good indicator of the
    likelihood of success (or failure!).

      * “Doing everything we can to retire fossil fuels at the
        earliest opportunity” means supporting investments with high
        opportunity cost, where that money could be better used
        elsewhere to cool the planet more effectively.  The system we
        should be most worried about is the earth system equilibrium,
        and that can best be protected by albedo management.

    I rather like your comment about the 'popular tribal myth that
    emission reduction is enough to fix the climate'.  I'm not sure
    what 'fixing the climate' actually means and how you can know in
    advance that any policy will 'fix' it.  It's more likely to be a
    continuing process of trial and error, like almost all public
    policy interventions.

      * Fixing the climate means treading a path back toward Holocene
        stability, removing the drivers of tipping points, stepping
        back from the current hothouse precipice.

    Do people really believe that emissions reductions are enough? 
    I'm not sure about that.

      * The popular media narrative on climate gives almost no space
        to the scientific recognition that emission reduction is not
        enough, let alone to the central role of albedo in warming. 
        When I explained this to the Australian Religious Response to
        Climate Change, they asked me to keep my view to myself as it
        conflicted with their simple narrative on climate action.

    I think that most informed commentators would argue that the
    evidence strongly suggests that emissions reductions are an
    important part of the mix, yet might still not be enough.

      * Yes, the IPCC scientific consensus recognises the need for
        GGR, but not albedo management.  Your weasel word “might” is
        rather like saying the earth “might” orbit the sun.

    However, that they might not be enough is not a reason not to do
    as much of them as possible.

      * I do admire your valiant defence of a failed paradigm here
        Robert. Remember Einstein’s purported definition of insanity
        <https://www.professorbuzzkill.com/einstein-insanity-qnq/>?

     I also think that most informed commentators would argue that the
    evidence strongly suggests that more emissions are not likely to
    'fix' the climate.

      * That is pretty obvious, but more emissions alongside a global
        albedo program could prevent dangerous tipping points.  World
        emissions have such a marginal total system effect at annual
        scale that it is not worth expending precious political energy
        trying to stop them.  If people want to burn stuff and can pay
        for it, just let them, within the boundaries of local
        environmental rules.

    Burning fossil fuels that emit GHGs and then paying to have them
    sucked out of the air and disposed of, or using AM to mask their
    warming effects, is much like burying banknotes and then paying
    someone to dig them up.

      * No.  Burying banknotes has no value, whereas there are massive
        global industries that find immense value in combustion. 
        Incidentally, this banknote metaphor shows why BECCS is a
        really bad idea. Rather than storing CO2 underground, what is
        needed is to find ways to convert CO2 into useful
        commodities.  I call it the 7F strategy – fuel, food, feed,
        fish, fertilizer, fabric and forests. This could be done with
        large scale ocean based algae production, once a strategic
        vision gains political traction.

    Robert  Chris

    On 31/05/2022 10:40, Robert Tulip wrote:

        Further response to Robert Chris, dot points in email below.

        *From:*Robert Chris <[email protected]>
        <mailto:[email protected]>
        *Sent:* Tuesday, 31 May 2022 4:42 PM
        *To:* Robert Tulip <[email protected]>
        <mailto:[email protected]>
        *Cc:* 'healthy-planet-action-coalition'
        <[email protected]>
        <mailto:[email protected]>;
        'Planetary Restoration'
        <[email protected]>
        <mailto:[email protected]>;
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        *Subject:* Re: [CDR] Climate Security Timeline

        Hi Robert

        I'll leave others better qualified to comment on your numbers
        and in particular, your statement that 'Albedo management and
        carbon management could combine to return the planet to 280
        ppm CO2 [...].  That could occur alongside ongoing
        emissions.'  I suspect there might be a little push back on that.

         1. Happy to debate numbers. Total emissions by the end of
            this century will be about one billion gigatonnes of
            carbon, while annual emissions are about 15 gigatonnes C
            including equivalents. The yearly amount is roughly 1.5%
            of the GHG forcing, leaving aside factors like ocean
            interactions and the additional forcing from albedo
            feedbacks.  I have not seen a peer reviewed statement of
            the ratio between annual emissions effect and total
            radiative forcing so this is just my estimate. Another way
            to calculate the ratio might be to set the proxy for
            radiative forcing as the CO2e increase since the Holocene,
            about 200 ppm, and note that the annual 2.3ppm increase is
            just over 1% of that total.  Even rounded up to 5% of RF,
            cutting emissions is still marginal to climate stability.
            280 ppm CO2 is an important target as it represents the
            stable climate that enabled our current sea level with
            beaches and ports and fragile coastal ecosystems. These
            would all be destroyed under current climate policies but
            could be saved by a rapid shift to an albedo focus. The
            main constraint to starting SRM and scaling up GGR much
            bigger than emissions is political understanding.

        Nevertheless, I am pleased that we've established that the
        core driver for you is the protection of the fossil fuel
        industry's property rights.

         2. Excuse me Robert, I appreciate this is a fraught topic,
            but such wilful distortion does you no credit.  The core
            driver for me is climate security, as clearly stated in
            this thread.  I am simply pointing out that snide
            dismissal of property rights inevitably causes social
            conflict.  Climate solutions that preserve legal rights
            are to be preferred when this gives their owners an
            incentive to cooperate in measures to solve their own and
            wider problems.  That is the situation for fossil fuel
            industries and geoengineering.

          An extension of that is that by truly embracing renewable
        energy the industry could retain its pre-eminent position in
        supplying the world with plentiful energy and in so doing
        create a whole new set of property rights to replace those
        that are causing most of our GHG related the problems.  Those
        new property rights will emerge.  Whether the current fossil
        fuel industry is one of their primary owners depends on the
        choices they now make.

         3. And an extension of a proposed strategy to rely mainly on
            transforming the energy sector is a burning earth. 
            Renewable energy potential is far too small, slow,
            contested and expensive to stop dangerous warming.

        Framing this as an ideological 'left/right' issue is also
        interesting. I don't see it that way at all.  For me it's
        about the internal functioning of complex adaptive systems.

         4. The political left largely want to destroy the fossil fuel
            industry, on the misguided assumption that to do so would
            stop climate change, while the political right and centre
            largely want to protect these industries from unjustified
            attacks.  That political divide opens the need for
            dialogue on how ongoing emissions could be compatible with
            a path to a stable climate.

        Too big a topic to deal with here but briefly, such systems
        _always_ grow and die.  Their temporal and spatial extent goes
        from the tiny to the huge, but they all eventually die. 
        Empires, governments, economic systems, cities, corporations, 
        industries, species, and so on.  Sometimes they collapse due
        to overwhelming external events such as the volcanic
        destruction of Pompeii.  Other times they collapse due to
        human failure such as Enron and Lehman Bros. Sometimes they
        collapse because the world just moves on and despite their
        best efforts, what they offer is no longer required - where
        are all the farriers, thatchers and candlestick makers?  But
        in every case, the collapse arises due to the failure of the
        system to adapt to changing circumstances. Sometimes the
        change is too great or sudden for such adaptation to be
        possible.  Other times it is due to a lack of foresight.

         5. I am pointing out that a good way for the fossil fuel
            industry to adapt to a changing climate is to support
            geoengineering. That will solve the warming problem and
            enable a more gradual tradition away from fuel sources
            that are less economic.  I do need to point out that the
            world now relies on fossil fuels for over 80% of energy
            use. Blithe elegies for the main infrastructure of our
            economy are very premature, and certainly not inevitable
            in our lifetimes.  If we can scale up GGR enough then
            ongoing emissions will not harm the climate.  It is
            disturbing to revel in predictions of the demise of
            industries that are central to world prosperity

        There are probably very few who do not now consider the glory
        days of the fossil fuel industry to be numbered.  What that
        number is, is an open question, as is the depth of foresight
        within the industry and in government about how to manage the
        transition.

         6. “Glory days” could still be ahead if this industry opens a
            conversation on the potential of geoengineering to salvage
            its business models.  If the oil majors offered to
            cooperate to refreeze the Arctic Ocean, in exchange for
             greater social and political licence to operate, it would
            be a good deal.  A frozen Pole would slow down tipping
            points, whereas a few more gigatonnes of emissions is
            neither here nor there in the greater scheme of climate
            stability and security.

        You frame that as an ideological question, I see it in
        systemic terms.   In systemic terms, there is a sweet spot on
        one side of which a system can be sustained by continual
        adaptation, and on the other side of which attempts to
        preserve elements that undermine the system, hasten its
        collapse.  Where we are right now in relation to that sweet
        spot can only be known retrospectively.  Foresight isn't an
        exact science but a lack of it is.

         7. Your ‘sweet spot’ analogy does not work in the way you
            suggest, which seems to imply the precautionary principle
            requires accelerated decarbonisation. A far more
            precautionary approach is to shift focus to albedo, as the
            main urgent global cooperation priority for climate.  But
            the sweet spot does apply to climate policy.  What an
            irony it would be if the main “element that undermines the
            system” turns out to be the popular tribal myth that
            emission reduction is enough to fix the climate.  Thanks
            for interesting comments. Regards, Robert Tulip

        Robert Chris

        On 31/05/2022 02:55, Robert Tulip wrote:

            To Robert Chris

            H Robert,

            I don’t agree with your comment that the need to manage
            albedo “has only been because of the fossil fuel industry
            blocking progress on transitioning to renewables.”

            Transition to renewable energy was never going to be the
            main climate solution. Faster progress on cutting
            emissions would not make much difference to ice melt.

            Most radiative forcing is from past emissions, with annual
            emissions worsening the problem by maybe 5%.

            Cutting emissions in half would slow the worsening annual
            effect of committed warming by about 2.5% on that measure,
            marginal to the scale of the climate problem.

            Albedo management and carbon management could combine to
            return the planet to 280 ppm CO2, the amount that gave us
            stable sea level. That could occur alongside ongoing
            emissions.

            To blame the fossil fuel industry for not jumping to give
            up its property rights while still supplying the world
            with plentiful energy creates a polarised climate debate. 
            It would be better to find a climate strategy that both
            left and right can agree on.  Easing off on emission
            reduction (~20% of the problem) while expanding
            geoengineering technologies (~80% of the solution) is the
            best way to build climate consensus.

            Regards

            Robert Tulip

            https://planetaryrestoration.net/

            *From:*[email protected]
            <[email protected]>
            <mailto:[email protected]> *On Behalf
            Of *Robert Chris
            *Sent:* Tuesday, 31 May 2022 1:00 AM
            *To:* [email protected]
            *Subject:* Re: [CDR] Climate Security Timeline

            Robert, nothing new here.  This was considered and
            dismissed at least as far back as 2009 (see Royal Society
            report here
            
<https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/publications/2009/geoengineering-climate/>),
            and repeatedly since then by those that understand that
            climate change and global warming are not synonymous.

            Albedo management is now necessary to refreeze the Arctic,
            as you note.  However, this has only because of the fossil
            fuel industry blocking progress on transitioning to
            renewables.  Far from making albedo management _the
            _priority action, their behaviour has now made _both
            _emissions reductions _and _albedo management more
            urgent.  They have nowhere to hide.  Their industries are
            in their final sunset phase.  They have a simple choice,
            do they get behind the transition and make things better
            for everyone, or continue to resist and place us all in
            peril. Their fate is sealed either way.

            Perhaps you can explain this to me.  If I was running a
            major corporation and I knew that the market for my
            primary product would more or less disappear in a matter
            of a few decades, why would I not now do everything in my
            power to reposition my business to be best placed to
            capitalise on what will follow it and to minimise the
            losses from my stranded assets?  The fossil fuel sector
            has the finance, skill set and the global reach to rapidly
            totally transform the global energy sector.  Why don't
            they do that, instead of paying lip service to the need
            for change but all the while consigning themselves to a
            slow and painful death that will hurt countless others in
            the process? Is it so difficult for them to go from zero
            to hero?

            Regards

            Robert  Chris

            On 30/05/2022 12:40, 'Robert Tulip' via Carbon Dioxide
            Removal wrote:

                The attached Climate Security Timeline shows a new
                suggestion on climate priorities.

                It calls for a shift away from emission reduction as
                the main agenda, to instead focus at global level on
                albedo enhancement. Brightening the planet to reflect
                more sunlight can stabilise and reverse the movement
                toward a hotter world as the foundation of a new
                climate approach.  Agreed systems to increase albedo
                should be in place before 2030.  With a brighter
                planet as the foundation, the direct cooling effects
                make time available to scale up greenhouse gas
                conversion and removal to levels well above emissions.
                By the 2040s, GGC&R can produce steady decline in GHG
                levels over the second half of this century.  Carbon
                dioxide conversion can store hundreds of billions of
                tonnes of carbon in valuable locations such as soil,
                biomass, etc, reducing the need to sequester as CO2. 
                Market demand can regulate global emissions, which at
                annual scale are a minor factor in radiative forcing
                compared to albedo and GHG concentrations.

                The critical engineering path suggested for the
                planetary climate is like building a house.  Albedo is
                the foundation, greenhouse gas conversions and
                removals are the walls, and decarbonisation caps the
                roof by a future move away from fossil fuels.  You
                cannot build walls and roof until you have laid the
                foundation.  That creates a timeline whereby global
                focus on a brighter world in this decade can replace
                the sole political emphasis on emissions and can give
                practical support to the recognition that removal of
                atmospheric carbon is essential.

                Without higher albedo, GHG effects cannot cool the
                planet. Higher albedo can only be engineered by
                peaceful global cooperation on new technologies such
                as marine cloud brightening. Albedo needs to be
                addressed first, especially at the poles,  where
                refreezing should be an immediate global priority for
                climate security.  Turning the polar oceans from dark
                to light by stopping the melting of summer ice will
                make a critical difference in the planetary energy
                balance. A main focus on albedo will give time for the
                slower effects of GHG conversion, removal and
                reduction to contribute over the next decades to a
                stable and secure and productive planetary climate. 
                This order of priorities can sustain the biosphere
                conditions that have enabled humans and all other
                living species to flourish on our planet Earth.

                Robert Tulip

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