Dear Colleges in the subject of Climate Engineering,
if you are doing it now in the USA you could get some questions that could
be hard to answer to public perceptions: The USA was a meaningful exception
in the Kyoto protocol now wanting geo-engineering tests. At the same time
the Kyoto protocol is said to be dead.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,792224,00.html
And there are further things:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/oct/06/us-push-geoengineeringThere
is a comment on it: “I would like to point out, however, that almost
nothing in this article is correct. Vidal (the Guardian author, who I've
heretofore much appreciated for his articles on UNFCCC negotiations)
misrepresents and embellishes his way into conspiracy theory territory. This
is pretty shoddy journalism; I'm putting it up only because I'm starting to
understand what it's like to be on the wrong side of knee-jerk 'leftist'
critiques”
This article, should make us aware of future problems as they could arise in
an environment of capitalistic structures and critiques in public
perceptions. I beg your pardon, in another case, a pretty shoddy
journalism made me in Stuttgart before my homedoor in Germany, with S21
actually understand the wrong side of selfish knee-jerk 'conservative'
advocacy, propaganda. There are definitely not leading the best ideas and
solutions of engineers to our future of mobility but some speculative
trading and lobbying in our government and that is the reason why heaps are
on the street since one year.
In short the best thing against ‘conspiracy theories’ a bad image and
demonstrations is a maximum of transparency of facts, business structures
and multilateral coalitions and the public should be informed about with
reliable information. As from first testing to deployment there is at least
one decade, a couple of months won’t matter. Next climate negotiations are
at the end of November, that will probably fail. Maybe some other climate
scientists would like to have some other months to observe the ozone whole
over the northern hemisphere in polar spring without additional inferences.
After that there could be a suitable constellation and time frame…
All the best from Stuttgart, Germany
Nadine
2011/10/20 Ken Caldeira kcalde...@carnegie.stanford.edu
Folks,
Please find attached:
MacMynowski, D. G., Keith, D., Caldeira, K., and Shin, H.-J., 2011. “Can we
test geoengineering?” *Energy and Environmental Science*, DOI:
10.1039/c1ee01256h.
We also made a couple of YouTube videos about this paper:
Doug MacMynowski discussing Can We Test Geoengineering?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0spy0Yn_nko
Doug MacMynowski and Ken Caldeira in discussion: Can We Test
Geoengineering?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o8wBo4R7ME
Enjoy,
Ken
PS. Be aware that these videos are extemporaneous talking I believe
without any internal edits, so not everything is said as carefully as one
might have liked.
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Ken Caldeira
Carnegie Institution Dept of Global Ecology
260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
+1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegie.stanford.edu
http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab @kencaldeira
See our *YouTube:*
Sensitivity of temperature and precipitation to frequency of climate
forcing: Ken Caldeira http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDRYM_5S0AE
Her lab, mules, and carbon capture and storage: Sally Benson speaks to Near
Zero http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMJJn6eP8J0
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