[geo] GE/climate regulation

2012-06-21 Thread Rau, Greg
OK, if political interests are the gatekeepers, are they simply going to lock that gate, or will they actively work with scientists and engineers to evaluate the merits and pitfalls of GE? Time is not on anyone's side here and the GE community has spoken, so if the ball is in the

Re: [geo] GE/climate regulation

2012-06-21 Thread Ken Caldeira
The part of this that I find most disturbing is: Geoengineering researchers can ... [begin] with a voluntary registry of ongoing and planned research. First of all, I don't think anybody has ever provided an adequate definition of what constitutes geoengineering research. What is a

Re: [geo] GE/climate regulation

2012-06-21 Thread rongretlarson
List and Drs. Rau and Caldeira : 1. I can agree with the reactions below to some of the material in Dr. Blackstock's Nature editorial and because I think we are on several important topics. a). To answer Dr. Rau's (rhetorical?) question - (obviously) politicians are (unfortunately) waiting