[geo] Re: website for climate science and engineering

2011-08-07 Thread Nathan Currier
Hi, Hiroshi - Thanks - I've just been waiting to hear back from Michael, and would be happy to help. I already have a domain, as I mentioned best, Nathan On Aug 6, 10:22 am, hiroshi mizutani mizutani49...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folks I wonder if any advance is taking place concerning the

Re: [geo] Re: My AGU abstract: We Don¹t Need a ³Geoengineering² Research Program

2011-08-07 Thread John Gorman
I strongly agree with everything in this-and in Mike McCrackens post and attachment of 04.18 on 5th Aug One thing that you academics in the field may not be aware of. At least 99% of well educated professional people have never heard the word geoengineering. I cant think of a single case

RE: [geo] Major BECCS study

2011-08-07 Thread Rau, Greg
Will do. All interested in bio air capture need to be aware of this study: http://ruralclimate.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/document_cw_01-2.pdf Your pithy analysis invited. Contact me at r...@llnl.gov if you have trouble with the link - G

[geo] Re: Fwd: methane geoengineering

2011-08-07 Thread Nathan Currier
Hi Andrew – I certainly agree with Neil Donahue that altering OH is “messing with the center of everything” in the atmosphere. At the same time, “messing with” might not be the best verb, in that, as he himself says, we’ve already messed it up to some degree through all kinds of pollutants. So,

RE: [geo] Re: My AGU abstract: We Don¹t Need a ³Geoengineering² Research Program

2011-08-07 Thread Eugene Gordon
I agree that little is known and disagree that widespread public acceptance is needed. Public acceptance is not the issue. The public in general does not have the intellect or attention span to understand the issue of global warming except what they see in scare movies. Geoengineering is even more

Re: [geo] Re: My AGU abstract: We Don¹t Need a ³Geoengineering² Research Program

2011-08-07 Thread Ken Caldeira
Responding mostly to Nathan Currier's comments: 1. I do not think it is helpful to research programs to link together very disparate sorts of activities and try to give the appearance that they represent a closely integrated program. So, regardless perception, I do not think a geoengineering

RE: [geo] Re: My AGU abstract: We Don¹t Need a ³Geoengineering² Research Program

2011-08-07 Thread Eugene Gordon
It is almost 20 years since I was a professor of ophthalmology in the ophthalmology department at UMDNJ. Many different research topics came under ‘ophthalmology’. My research was on rabbit corneas. Others worked on retinas. The point is that many disparate sorts of activities were linked under