Re: [geo] Re: Pacific iron fertilisation is 'blatant violation' of international regulations

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew Lockley
Jim Thanks for your email. Could you cite emails where you think there have been ad hominem attacks on ETC? I'm reluctant to censor obvious satire. This thread has triggered useful debate. I'm also concerned at your attempts to apply the ad hominem principle to a group or organisation. This

[geo] Solar Geoengineering Holds Promise for Addressing Climate Change | News | The Harvard Crimson

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew Lockley
Teaser piece on Keith paper http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/10/22/solar-geoengineering-climate-change/ Solar Geoengineering Holds Promise for Addressing Climate Change By MELODY Y. GUAN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER Published: Monday, October 22, 2012 Stopping or reversing climate change can be

Re: [geo] Haida Salmon Restoration Project - Legal and Commercial issues

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew Revkin
For the record I agree (particularly on basis that they see this as Haida waters, that evidence from eruption plumes points to salmon benefit. On Monday, October 22, 2012, Bhaskar M V bhaskarmv...@gmail.com wrote: Haida Salmon Restoration Project Legal issues - The media advisory released by

RE: [geo] Re: Pacific iron fertilisation is 'blatant violation' of international regulations

2012-10-22 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
I still think we need to focus on the fact that the public do find geoengineers a viable community deserving the support. We should not be distracted by the negative lobby groups like ETC because the public realises that the real problem in quantitative terms is the pollution we put out, not

Re: [geo] Haida Salmon Restoration Project - Legal and Commercial issues

2012-10-22 Thread Rau, Greg
HTTP://WWW.EENEWS.NET/GREENWIRE/PRINT/2012/10/22/9 OCEANS: Canadian village defends Pacific iron ore dumping Published: Monday, October 22, 2012 Leaders of a small Canadian village on Friday defended the dumping of 120 tons of iron ore into the Pacific Ocean, saying it was a legal experiment to

Re: [geo] Re: Pacific iron fertilisation is 'blatant violation' of international regulations

2012-10-22 Thread David Lewis
After I read Geopiracy: The Case Against Geoengineeringhttp://www.etcgroup.org/content/geopiracy-case-against-geoengineering on the ETC website, I, mistakenly as I see now, concluded that ETC couldn't possibly be serious. I thought their contribution was aimed at provoking laughter. Hence,

[geo] Arctic warming and ocean productivity

2012-10-22 Thread David Mitchell
As many of you know, Jennifer Francis has published interesting research in GRL recently regarding the amplified warming in the Arctic and how this may affect the jet stream; see [1] http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2012/2012GL051000.shtml [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4spEuh8vswE [3]

RE: [geo] Re: Pacific iron fertilisation is 'blatant violation' of international regulations

2012-10-22 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
We do not choose to focus on problems based on an objective appraisal of threats posed, but rather largely based on which actions we find to be most ethically repugnant. Apparently, dumping raw sewage simply to save the cost of sewage processing is less repugnant than fertilizing the ocean in

[geo] ScienceDirect.com - Process Safety and Environmental Protection - Ocean fertilization for geoengineering: a review of effectiveness, environmental impacts and emerging governance

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew Lockley
(Full abstract wouldnt copy from page) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095758201200119X?v=s5 Williamson, Phillip; et al. (2012): Ocean fertilization for geoengineering: a review of effectiveness, environmental impacts and emerging governance Williamson, Phillip; Wallace,