RE: [geo] Re: Lindzen presents skeptics' case to UK House of Commons

2012-02-29 Thread Doug MacMynowski
As you say, there is uncertainty, and I would disagree with anyone who had a preferred value rather than acknowledging uncertainty. It is possible that Lindzen's lower value is correct, it is possible that Hansen's value is correct (whatever those might be - though I do think the available data

RE: [geo] Can We Test Geoengineering? paper and YouTube videos

2011-10-21 Thread Doug MacMynowski
we test geoengineering? Energy and Environmental Science, DOI: 10.1039/c1ee01256h. We also made a couple of YouTube videos about this paper: Doug MacMynowski discussing Can We Test Geoengineering? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0spy0Yn_nko Doug MacMynowski and Ken Caldeira in discussion: Can We

RE: [geo] Re: Can solar radiation management be tested?

2010-09-30 Thread Doug MacMynowski
Jim - at the risk of continuing a thread that's perhaps already gone on too long, there's two of your statements that I don't understand. (I respond only because maybe there's potential to reach consensus.) 1) I use the word implementation or full-scale to mean offsetting some useful fraction

RE: [geo] Re: Can solar radiation management be tested?

2010-09-29 Thread Doug MacMynowski
Hi Stephen, I think this is just a signal to noise question, looking at the part of the response that is correlated with the input (which means its only noise on the same time-scales that matters). There are some fancier things that can be done in some limited cases where a lot is known about