It seems another group have independently come up with the same idea
on methane which I've been working on. Of all the techniques I've
considered, this is perhaps the most promising.
A
Assessing a NOx mitigation technique in an extreme methane
concentration scenario: The chemical and climatic
Response to Daly's crtique (below) of geo-engineering
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The very sad and unappreciated truth is that:
a. If all emissions were shut off tomorrow, the sulfate would go away first and
that would yield about a W/m2 forcing in first two weeks, perhaps diminished
slightly by
I usually like Herman Daly's work, but this seems a bit sloppy.
Most people are advocating research not deployment at this stage. Most
people do not see sunlight reflection as an alternative to emissions
reduction.
Furthermore, it is a research question whether situations might plausibly
arise
As Ken said, this is not the sort of thing you know just by sitting in an
armchair -- especially with as little perspective as he displays. God save
us from English majors.
Gregory Benford
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Ken Caldeira
kcalde...@carnegie.stanford.edu wrote:
I usually like
