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
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
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