[geo] Japanese cloud seeding with liquid carbonic acid

2013-05-06 Thread Fred Zimmerman
From Japan Times http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/06/national/japanese-cloud-seeding-tests-work-for-second-year-in-row/#.UYfjGZFDsrp 1) this sounds like the same technique as marine cloud brightening--is it? 2) what is the special value (if any) of liquid carbonic acid? Fred Japanese

[geo] Re: Apparently we've been doing global scale lake geoengineering (P-capping) for decades

2013-05-01 Thread Fred Zimmerman
, of activities that are conscious ecosystem interventions that may need to be tracked, monitored, managed, and, especially, integrated with other GE activities. --- Fred Zimmerman Geoengineering IT! Bringing together the worlds of geoengineering and information technology GE NewsFilter: http

[geo] Apparently we've been doing global scale lake geoengineering (P-capping) for decades

2013-04-30 Thread Fred Zimmerman
be supported. We argue that a comprehensive analysis of data and increased coherence across future geo-engineering research programs is necessary to deliver advances in theoretical and practical knowledge needed to improve the efficacy of the approach. --- Fred Zimmerman Geoengineering IT! Bringing

[geo] membership of NRC committee on Geoengineering Climate

2013-04-29 Thread Fred Zimmerman
University. --- Fred Zimmerman Geoengineering IT! Bringing together the worlds of geoengineering and information technology GE NewsFilter: http://geoengineeringIT.net:8080 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups geoengineering group. To unsubscribe from

Re: [geo] RE: Biochar: Downstream effects

2013-04-29 Thread Fred Zimmerman
Excellent question! math intuition says that could have a huge albedo effect. Such an effect might be teased out from the archive of satellite ocean color observations. It should be easy to answer whether the ocean is, overall, getting darker with time. --- Fred Zimmerman Geoengineering

Re: [geo] Haida readying for second round of iron dumping in ocean - News - Times Colonist

2013-04-27 Thread Fred Zimmerman
1) I generally agree with proposition that there is complacency about security. 2) I do not think it is a good idea to put heavy machine guns on research vessels. 3) I would extend the concern about security to information security. --- Fred Zimmerman Geoengineering IT! Bringing together

Re: [geo] FEEM - Geoengineering and Abatement: A ¹flat¹ Relationship under Uncertainty

2013-04-17 Thread Fred Zimmerman
habitats. --- Fred Zimmerman Geoengineering IT! Bringing together the worlds of geoengineering and information technology GE NewsFilter: http://geoengineeringIT.net:8080 On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Mike MacCracken mmacc...@comcast.netwrote: Sorry Gene—While some resource extraction

Re: [geo] FEEM - Geoengineering and Abatement: A ¹flat¹ Relationship under Uncertainty

2013-04-17 Thread Fred Zimmerman
I think the interesting question that is not yet resolved is whether there might be regional variations in climate or GE effects that will result in some nations finding a warm arctic a net benefit to themselves even though that results in a net loss to the world as a whole. --- Fred Zimmerman

Re: [geo] For the why geoengineering could prove to be vital department...

2013-04-17 Thread Fred Zimmerman
of the costs of unmitigated climate change are too low unless the range of possible warming can somehow be narrowed. Heat stress also may help explain trends in the mammalian fossil record. --- Fred Zimmerman Geoengineering IT! Bringing together the worlds of geoengineering and information technology GE

Re: [geo] Deliberating stratospheric aerosols for climate geoengineering and the SPICE project : Nature Climate Change

2013-04-16 Thread Fred Zimmerman
This is a perverse result, eh? GE trials ok, but not what is arguably the most effective technique. --- Fred Zimmerman Geoengineering IT! Bringing together the worlds of geoengineering and information technology On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Andrew Lockley andrew.lock...@gmail.comwrote

Re: [geo] The History of Weather Control (Interactive timeline)

2013-03-29 Thread Fred Zimmerman
at some point you need to show a branching at the historical point where climate engineering begins to branch off from weather modification. --- Fred Zimmerman Geoengineering IT! On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Ken Caldeira kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu wrote: A lot of what is on the timeline

[geo] literature survey: information management for geoengineering

2013-03-28 Thread Fred Zimmerman
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[geo] Mendeley groups on Geoengineering and Geoengineering Information Management

2013-03-28 Thread Fred Zimmerman
Mendeley.com is a crowd-sourced research and bibliographic management service that is widely used and compatible with all major bibliographic standards. It is a great resource that I use daily. They have a system of public and private groups that let people share articles, citations, and

Re: [geo] The History of Weather Control (Interactive timeline)

2013-03-28 Thread Fred Zimmerman
Very nice! On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Jim Lee rez...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to extend an invitation to everyone in this community to please browse, share, and fact check an interactive javascript timeline based on weather modification and geoengineering. As we all know there is

[geo] Re: Mendeley groups on Geoengineering and Geoengineering Information Management

2013-03-28 Thread Fred Zimmerman
Deep thanks to Nils Matzner of Climate-Engineering.eu who contributed 547 high-quality citations about geoengineering to the Mendeley group on Geoengineering IT. *http://mnd.ly/11QsbF0* * * On Thursday, March 28, 2013 8:55:59 AM UTC-4, Fred Zimmerman wrote: Mendeley.com is a crowd-sourced

Re: [geo] Re: Why geoengineering has immediate appeal to China (Guradian)

2013-03-27 Thread Fred Zimmerman
Before we go too far on this China priorities meme let me suggest that we make it a practice of the list to always cite Jason Blackstock's very persuasive post of 11/26/2012 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/geoengineering/wKAas01rdDA/h2eZpjmvviAJ the money quote of which is this from Kingsley

Re: [geo] Proposal for NASA to Lead CDR Effort

2013-02-28 Thread Fred Zimmerman
All this organizational discussion is leaving out the role of Congress, which must both authorize and appropriate funds for any significant effort to organize SRM and CDR. As with so many discussions lately it all comes back to the need to mobilize the broadest possible coalition around

Re: [geo] A Cheap and Easy Plan to Stop Global Warming By David Rotman

2013-02-10 Thread Fred Zimmerman
Control is too problematic. I like active climate management as an umbrella term that includes co2 withdrawal and human forcings of all kinds. On Feb 10, 2013 9:00 PM, Gregory Benford xbenf...@gmail.com wrote: Ken's history is right: 2006. I still prefer another term we tossed around there:

Re: [geo] Re: nuclear winter, from the archives

2012-09-27 Thread Fred Zimmerman
Does anyone care anymore what Carl Sagan wrote 30 years ago? Half the population is too young to even know who he was. I question whether anyone who was under 30 in 1986 even remembers anything about the early debates. Surely what is more important now is our current understanding of the

[geo] corporate policy statements on geoengineering?

2012-09-10 Thread Fred Zimmerman
Is anyone aware of large corporations that have taken policy stands on geoengineering -- e.g. expressed support for the Oxford Principles, funded socially responsible research, joined coalitions, etc? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups geoengineering

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