Hi all,
We discussed Ken's point in the office last week but have not done a
full analysis of it yet.
We want to make clear that the index is a tool for the public. We want
to try to show the scale of change and to try to show why the
scientific community is so concerned. Here at COP15 , and
Dear David Keith,
Thank you for the response. I enjoyed your TED presentation a while back.
I'll certainly read the literature you linked. A couple of quick
questions...
Say, all these AC groups (and others) are provided with unlimited funding
tomorrow and the problem of what to do with the
Which reminds me, isn't there an albedo tradeoff here if white barren
land is reforested with dark trees a la Caldeira and Govindaswamy
200__?
-Greg
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Andrew
Lockley mailto:andrew.lock...@gmail.comandrew.lock...@gmail.com wrote:
you can put some concrete or
Thanks, David. That's a very nice overview that you and Stephens
did. Sorry I missed it earlier. So if air capture via geochem CO2
management shares some of the same benefits (but with different
problems) inherent in air CCS why was the former approach ignored in
you high profile discussion
Hi John,
In your note you say, The undisputed fact that emissions reduction cannot
save the Arctic sea ice, at its current rate of retreat...
Can you provide a reference or two that reaches this conclusion?
(I'm not asking to dispute what you say but would like to see what you have in
mind as
Hi David--I have run the MAGICC model of Wigley turning off all emissions
(all GHGs, all aerosols)--so an impossibly aggressive limiting case. The
black carbon and sulfate effects go away virtually immediately, tropospheric
ozone almost as fast, methane over 1-2 decades, and then one is left with
Dear Mike:
What a wonderful discussion of a limited but vital geothermal application.
Surely, we can find some money to develop a detailed RD plan. Maybe we
should talk to Bill Gates or some other imaginative philanthropist. I don't
see the government investing. However, once the plan has been
Short answer: no, not with business-as-usual rules for permitting and
siting. Even with money, it's all but impossible to develop deployable
industrial hardware of the kind we are talking about here in five years.
Alternative-world answer: Under wartime style system in which multiple
