[geo] Congratulations!

2008-12-19 Thread Greg Rau
Without any controls on CO2 emissions who'a gon'a call? - Geoengineering! Congratulations guys - don't blow it. -G EPA memo bans to curb CO2 emissions Dina Cappiello, Associated Press Friday, December 19, 2008 (12-19) 04:00 PST Washington - -- The Bush administration is trying to make sure in

[geo] Re: Congratulations!

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Wilson
David Schnare wrote: No, we did not say there will be no controls on CO2 emissions. The Agency only stated that CO2 is not properly considered under Clean Air Act permitting at this time. The reasons are technical legal reasons and the make complete sense. I have spoken with Steve about

[geo] Interim results from surveymonkey

2008-12-19 Thread Andrew Lockley
Interim results from a survey of the members of the 'Geoengineering' google group are as follows: Please can anyone who hasn't filled this out yet do so at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=QyDd_2fy3cpcZvMI5E3DsJGQ_3d_3d The Independent Survey on Geoengineering: 1. Are you more, or less

[geo] Re: REGARDING DETERIORATION OF GEOENGINEERING GOOGLEGROUP

2008-12-19 Thread John Latham
Hello Ken, Googlegroup has been immensely valuable ever since its inception, which was entirely due to you. I totally understand your current frustration. But it'd be a major loss if it ceased, and without you it would be sorely diminished. So please adopt Option 1. Hopefully, after an

[geo] Hansen Prioritizes Geoengineering Options

2008-12-19 Thread Alvia Gaskill
If he really said no till agriculture, then that's not geoengineering and afforestation without identifying which forests and where is also not a good idea. The comments below are from the blogger and not me. I also notice that the link to geoengineering is to the recently revised Wikipedia

[geo] Re: REGARDING DETERIORATION OF GEOENGINEERING GOOGLEGROUP

2008-12-19 Thread William Fulkerson
Dear Ken: I second John Latham's note except I would choose the second option. Both options are rather bad, however. Geo has accomplished what I had hoped it might. It has provided a global forum on geoengineering and related themes. In my opinion this Google Group attention will lead

[geo] Holdren and us

2008-12-19 Thread xbenford
All: Tom Wigley Ken C are both right. We need the geo group, but more important, this is the moment to speak truth to power. Our proper channel is John Holdren, and I share Tom's feelings, because I know him well. John I were postdocs at Livermore in the late 1960s. We're old

[geo] Re: Holdren and us

2008-12-19 Thread Mike MacCracken
Purely on my own, I beg to differ on this analysis regarding John HoldrenĀ¹s position, having been a coauthor of the report done for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (see http://www.unfoundation.org/press-center/press-releases/2007/science-panel-o utlines-roadmap-climate-change.html).

[geo] Re: REGARDING DETERIORATION OF GEOENGINEERING GOOGLEGROUP

2008-12-19 Thread John Gorman
Please keep the group more or less as it is-somehow or other. It is invaluable even if it strays into too much politics occasionally. John Gorman - Original Message - From: Ken Caldeira To: geoengineering Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 7:00 PM Subject: [geo] REGARDING