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2015-06-01 Thread Oliver Tickell
See also this article on The Ecologist by Peter Bunyard: http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2776099/without_its_rainforest_the_amazon_will_turn_to_desert.html Without its rainforest, the Amazon will turn to desert Peter Bunyard 2nd March 2015 Tweet http://twitter.com/share

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2015-06-01 Thread Andrew Lockley
Researchers including Vizy by contrast suggest that the Amazon will dry to a open grassland / scrubland ecosystem, called Caatinga

[geo] The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking modernity ... - Google Books

2015-06-01 Thread Andrew Lockley
Poster's note : around a dozen references to geoengineering in this work https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IKthCQAAQBAJprintsec=frontcoversource=gbs_ge_summary_rredir_esc=y#v=onepageq=geoengineeringf=true From publisher's website : The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis

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2015-06-01 Thread Brian Cartwright
Thanks, Stephen, but isn't it true that most CCN over the Amazon are of biological origin? To put it in very plain language, the typical assumption about where rain comes from is that it blows in from the ocean. I'm interested to what extent it is pulled in by forests. Do you think

[geo] Section 1, Track 2 | Seizing an Alternative June 4-7, 2015 Claremont, CA

2015-06-01 Thread Andrew Lockley
http://www.ctr4process.org/whitehead2015/section-1-track-2/ Seizing an Alternative: Toward an Ecological Civilization 10th International Whitehead Conference 9th International Conference on Ecological Civilization Inaugural Pando Populus Conference Thursday-Sunday, June 4-7, 2015 Claremont, CA,

[geo] Martin Weitzman on Climate Change | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty

2015-06-01 Thread Andrew Lockley
Poster's note : long post with podcast extracts and some interesting listener comments at the bottom http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/06/martin_weitzman.html Russ Roberts posts to Twitter as EconTalker. PERMANENT LINK | JUNE 1, 2015 Martin Weitzman on Climate Change EconTalk Episode with

[geo] Re: Emissions accounting for biomass energy with CCS : Nature Climate Change

2015-06-01 Thread Andrew Lockley
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v5/n6/full/nclimate2634.html?WT.ec_id=NCLIMATE-201506 Reply to 'Emissions accounting for biomass energy with CCS' Daniel L. Sanchez, James H. Nelson, Josiah Johnston, Ana Mileva Daniel M. Kammen Nature Climate Change 5, 496 (2015) doi:10.1038/nclimate2634

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2015-06-01 Thread Ronal W. Larson
List, especially Mike and John, cc Brian (who started this) 1. This is to explore further how this biotic pump topic would influence any part of geoengineering. I have concluded, like Brian, that this paper is important in promoting regrowth of forests. John certainly agrees and

Re: [geo] Smart reforestation must go beyond carbon: expert | CIFOR Forests News Blog

2015-06-01 Thread Mike MacCracken
Hi Ronal, Brian, John, et al.‹As a modeler, I would imagine the question is just what is it that one would want added to the models. Quite a number of skeptics want the models to add in long cycles evident in the observations‹that would be fine in empirical models, but the whole idea of physical

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2015-06-01 Thread John Harte
I'm not a climate modeler and my understanding of what goes in to conventional physics process-based atmospheric models is very limited, so correct me if I am wrong mike, but I was under the impression that it was the horizontal not the vertical pressure gradients that M G think is

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2015-06-01 Thread Mike MacCracken
Hi John‹I am not sure one can separate then. For example, where one has a thin boundary layer and then the free atmosphere above, it is like having two different fluids that don¹t mix all that well, so if far inland one gets convection pulling the lower layer in with a horizontal gradient, so

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2015-06-01 Thread Ronal W. Larson
List and ccs Thanks to both Mike and John. I think John is closer to my question (in talking about horizontal flows and forestry) on how this whole topic might impact different aspects of geoengineering. Especially because so much of this list’s dialog has revolved