Universal benefit may not be a valid test. Street lighting is a public
good, but displeases astronomers.
A
On May 14, 2013 3:47 AM, Steve Gardiner stephengardin...@gmail.com
wrote:
I'm pleased to see my paper being discussed on the list. Still, the
discussion so far does not reflect the
From scott Rosenberg, who moderated last week's Caldeira/Hamilton event:
http://grist.org/climate-energy/geoengineering-research-never-or-now/
Hamilton’s *Earthmasters* book quotes Lawrence Livermore Labs scientist
Lowell Wood: “We’ve engineered every other environment we live in — why not
the
The context of course is that we are already interfering in Earth's climate
system in a major way ... we are already throwing sand in the gears.
Model results indicate that throwing some oil on the gears will help make
the clock run smoothly, despite not knowing how all the gears really fit
Prinn's quote is via Oliver Morton.
See Fleming, Fixing the Sky p. 225
*How can you engineer a system whose behavior you don’t understand?*
—Ron Prinn, quoted in Morton, “Climate Change”
Of course, this begs the question of someday gaining better understanding.
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:45
Just to follow up, we may not entirely understand the system but we know that
elevated air CO2 (sand) is not good for it. Job 1 is then to stop air CO2 from
increasing. Given that we have thus far failed to do this, what are the ethics
of actively discouraging research on any CO2 management
http://aei.org/events/2013/05/29/solar-radiation-management-an-evolving-climate-policy-option/
Solar radiation management: An evolving climate policy option
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 | 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
AEI, Twelfth Floor 1150 Seventeenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20036
As hopes for curbing
