[geo] CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: Geoengineering: Forced Upon Us?

2015-05-14 Thread Andrew Lockley
Poster's note : for background on the author, please see the blog's about page. http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/geoengineering-forced-upon-us.html?m=1 Geoengineering: Forced Upon Us? Say that you are someone who believes strongly that human-driven emissions of carbon and other

[geo] Can super-super-super computers really help climate engineering efforts?

2015-05-14 Thread Eric Durbrow
The NYTimes had an interesting article about a researcher who wishes to create exascale supercomputing sooner rather than later using a low-power but inexact approach. I’m more interested in the hardware needs for future climate modeling mention in this article. I’m curious whether the climate

Re: [geo] Geo-Engineering the Anthropocene

2015-05-14 Thread Fred Zimmerman
An interesting piece indeed that would be more useful if it offered proposals as well as raising questions. One gets the impression that the author's idea of appropriate visuality would be a 24/7 loop of the destruction of the global environment by fossil fuels. But it's hard to see how such a

[geo] Oliver Morton speaks on geoengineering | Kew, London, UK

2015-05-14 Thread Andrew Lockley
http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/whats-on/oliver-morton Oliver Morton 25 September 2015, 12.30pm to 1.30pm The Planet Remade WRITE ON KEW Venue: Nash Conservatory Price: Various Related festival: Write on Kew 2015 Literary Festival Oliver Morton (Photo: Julian Anderson) Oliver Morton at

[geo] Geo-Engineering the Anthropocene

2015-05-14 Thread Andrew Lockley
Poster's note : An unusual piece, notably discussing the visual depiction of geoengineering http://blog.fotomuseum.ch/2015/05/ii-geo-engineering-the-anthropocene/ II. Geo-Engineering the Anthropocene By T.J. DEMOS Published: 13. MAY 2015 “A daunting task lies ahead for scientists and engineers

[geo] Articles: Saving Humanity from Catastrophic Global Cooling: A Task for Geo-Engineering

2015-05-14 Thread Andrew Lockley
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/05/saving_humanity_from_catastrophic_global_cooling_a_task_for_geoengineering.html Extract An obvious scheme to counter a cooling is to make use of greenhouse (GH) warming. However, carbon dioxide is not the answer: CO2 is limited in supply and is