[geo] Re: [CDR] Tiresome nomenclature squabbles

2023-02-13 Thread Ken Caldeira
Burns wrote: > Thanks, I concur on all accords. Wil > > Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > ------ > *From:* Oliver Morton > *Sent:* Monday, February 13, 2023 8:29:29 AM > *To:* Seth Miller > *Cc:* Wil Burns ; Ken Caldeira < > kcalde...@carnegi

[geo] Re: [CDR] Tiresome nomenclature squabbles

2023-02-02 Thread Ken Caldeira
Carbon dioxide removal is an activity, or a tool, and can be fully described without reference to intent. In contrast, geoengineering involves specific intention to alter Earth's climate. CDR is a tool that is not typically applied to this intention, but could be. If the intention of using CDR

Re: [geo] Economic interests and ideologies behind solar geoengineering research in the United States

2022-11-01 Thread Ken Caldeira
The facts > are enough: MP, member of parliament. > > On Nov 2, 2022, at 5:30 AM, Ken Caldeira wrote: > > There are some mistakes here. > > I played no material role related to the funding or operation of the > Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program (HSGRP). > >

Re: [geo] Economic interests and ideologies behind solar geoengineering research in the United States

2022-11-01 Thread Ken Caldeira
Management – Governance Initiative (SRMGI) > – DECIMALS Fund > – UCLA Emmett Institute > Total amount: $5.76M > SilverLining Funded by venture capital firms LowerCarbon Capital and > First Round Capital; staff and board include former executives from Goldman > Sachs and JPMorgan

[geo] Transfer of Geoengineering google group ownership (respond by 9 Oct 2019 if you object)

2019-10-02 Thread Ken Caldeira
of this group to Andrew Lockley? Please reply (not reply all) if you have an objection. Best, Ken *Ken Caldeira* *Carnegie Institution for Science* Dept of Global Ecology / Carnegie Energy Innovation 260 Panama St, Stanford CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http

Re: [geo] LESS RAIN BUT STILL WETTER AND GREENER? October 9, 2018 By Pete Irvine, @peteirvine

2018-10-15 Thread Ken Caldeira
suppress evaporation, people would have had a very different perception of the risks from decreased evaporation. *Ken Caldeira* *Carnegie Institution for Science* Dept of Global Ecology / Carnegie Energy Innovation 260 Panama St, Stanford CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http

Re: FW: [geo] Stopping the Flood: Could We Use Targeted Geoengineering to Mitigate Sea Level Rise?

2018-08-02 Thread Ken Caldeira
ng nuclear explosives in the early cold > War. > > Andrew > > On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, 07:18 Ken Caldeira, > wrote: > >> Below is what I wrote to a writer for the Atlantic, Robinson Meyer: >> https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/a-new-geo-engineering-

Re: FW: [geo] Stopping the Flood: Could We Use Targeted Geoengineering to Mitigate Sea Level Rise?

2018-08-01 Thread Ken Caldeira
Below is what I wrote to a writer for the Atlantic, Robinson Meyer: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/a-new-geo-engineering-proposal-to-stop-sea-level-rise/550214/ What got into the piece was: Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, said

Re: [geo] Lomborg on Paris

2018-07-19 Thread Ken Caldeira
lying on the Sourcewatch link that you > provided is ad hominem fallacious reasoning, 'playing the man not the > ball'. The obvious bias reveals political rather than scientific motives > on the part of the Sourcewatch authors. Their article does not engage with > Lomborg's critique of

Re: [geo] Chemtrails conspiracy theorists are sending death threats to climate scientists – VICE News

2017-11-24 Thread Ken Caldeira
Of course, some of us have been receiving death threats for years. This article apparently contains no documentation of such threats. It is not clear to me whether publicizing death threats will make scientists safer or just act as a clarion call to the deranged. On Wed, Nov 22, 2017, 15:13

Re: [geo] Carbon budget/removal in NYTimes interactive

2017-09-15 Thread Ken Caldeira
facilities. If anyone knows of an exceptional candidate for a postdoctoral position in my group interested in pursuing these questions, please send them my way. (If someone is merely capable of conducting this investigation, I am not interested in hiring them.) Best, Ken *Ken Caldeira* *Carnegie

[geo] SOS 2017 Session spotlight 4 - Ocean NETs - CO2 Sequestration Via Ocean-Based Negative Emissions Technologies

2017-09-11 Thread Ken Caldeira
fyi Sustainable Ocean Summit 2017 SESSION SPOTLIGHT Ocean NETs: CO2 Sequestration Via Ocean-Based Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) The Internatio [image: SOS2017 bannerRegistrationOpen 600x150px]

[geo] Help: What do we know and what don't we know about solar geoengineering?

2017-07-19 Thread Ken Caldeira
paper or two. Thanks, Ken *Ken Caldeira* *Carnegie Institution for Science* Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama St Stanford CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 http://CarnegieEnergyInnovation.org http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab <http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab> Assistant, with

Re: [geo] An Economic Anatomy of Optimal Climate Policy - Moreno-Cruz, Keith, Wagner

2017-07-13 Thread Ken Caldeira
be cast in the form of a hypothetical / conditional, rather than an assertion. *Ken Caldeira* *Carnegie Institution for Science* Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama St Stanford CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 http://CarnegieEnergyInnovation.org http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab <http://dge.stanfo

Re: [geo] Scientists Consider Brighter Clouds to Preserve the Great Barrier Reef

2017-04-23 Thread Ken Caldeira
ews.com/articles/18949/20151224/cloudy-waters-shade-corals-excess-sunlight-helping-survive-climate-change.htm Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama St Stanford CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 http://CarnegieEnergyInnovation.org http://dge.stanford.edu/

[geo] Open-Access Review paper: Gas Hydrate Breakdown Unlikely to Cause Massive Greenhouse Gas Release

2017-02-12 Thread Ken Caldeira
re now, but more observational data and improved numerical models will better characterize the climate-hydrate synergy in the future. Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama St Stanford CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab

Re: [geo] Response-to-Five-Solar-Geoengineering-Tropes-Wil-Burns.pdf

2016-11-11 Thread Ken Caldeira
, not solar geoengineering. Best, Ken Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama St Stanford CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab <http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab> Assistant, with access to incoming emails: Jess

[geo] Fwd: NATIONAL ACADEMIES CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - Developing a Research Agenda for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration

2016-10-28 Thread Ken Caldeira
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Thomas, Katherine C Date: Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:28 AM Subject: NATIONAL ACADEMIES CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - Developing a Research Agenda for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration To: "Hudson, Michael"

[geo] Does anybody have a pdf of Flannery et al (1997) Geoengineering Climate, in Engineering Responses to Global Climate Change (ed RG Watts)?

2016-08-11 Thread Ken Caldeira
send me, it would be most appreciated. Thanks, Ken ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/ My assistant is Dawn Ross <

Re: [geo] CDR as Mitigation

2016-07-06 Thread Ken Caldeira
, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:12 Wil Burns <w...@feronia.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Ken Caldeira <kcalde...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think of carbon dioxide removal as a form of mitigation and of solar > geoengineering as an extreme form of adaptation. > > I fi

Re: [geo] CIA Director Brennan Speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations on geoengineering

2016-07-05 Thread Ken Caldeira
e science > but really the level of enthusiasm and energy around various options. While > we see people full-throatedly arguing for MOAR BECCS NOW we don't really > see the same breadth of enthusiasm for immediate SAI. > ᐧ > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Ken Caldeira <kcalde...@

Re: [geo] CIA Director Brennan Speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations on geoengineering

2016-07-05 Thread Ken Caldeira
I think of carbon dioxide removal as a form of mitigation and of solar geoengineering as an extreme form of adaptation. They are not not mutually exclusive, and not substitutes except insofar as more carbon dioxide removal reduces the motivation to deploy solar geoengineering. On Tue, Jul 5,

Re: [geo] Can stratospheric aerosols directly affect global precipitation?

2016-03-06 Thread Ken Caldeira
; We looked at simulations that changes solar intensity and CO2 but did not >> use aerosols (see attached). >> >> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JD023901/abstract >> >> Our analysis indicated that in our simulations a reduction in solar >> intensity (at con

Re: [geo] Simulated long-term climate response to idealized solar geoengineering - Cao - 2016 - GRL - Wiley

2016-03-02 Thread Ken Caldeira
limate response to idealized solar geoengineering > > Authors > Long Cao, > Lei Duan, > Govindasamy Bala, > Ken Caldeira > > 02 March 2016 > doi: 10.1002/2016GL068079 > > Abstract > > Solar geoengineering has been proposed as a potential means to counteract > anthrop

Re: [geo] CIGI : assessing scientific legitimacy: the case of marine geoengineering

2015-09-18 Thread Ken Caldeira
environment? cf. Caldeira and Ricke, Nature Climate Change 2013 (attached). ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu website: http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab

[geo] Fwd: FW: August GUIRR Webinar: Approaches to Climate Intervention

2015-08-06 Thread Ken Caldeira
with: - *Marcia McNutt*; Editor-in-Chief, *Science * - *Ken Caldeira*; Senior Climate Scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science There is no cost to this webinar, *but registration is required. *A confirmation email will be issued prior to the event containing the webinar URL. *Register

[geo] Armand Neukermans and Ken Caldeira speaking at Cafe Scientifique Silicon Valley (YouTube)

2015-05-28 Thread Ken Caldeira
will feature presentations by two thought leaders on climate change: [image: Caldeira and Neukermans] Ken Caldeira (l); Armand Neukermans (r) *Solar Geoengineering and Climate Change: *Nearly everyone understands that the most effective way to reduce environmental risk associated with climate

Re: AW: [geo] Why Climate Engineering Won't Work, Levermann, HuffPo

2015-05-11 Thread Ken Caldeira
Regarding this piece, I had this discussion with Anders on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kcaldeira Ken Caldeira https://www.facebook.com/kcaldeira Agreed that the whole climate engineering discussion is a bit of a distraction from the main task of transforming our energy

[geo] Interview about geoengineering, NRC report, etc: Inquiring Minds podcast with related story in Mother Jones magazine

2015-03-28 Thread Ken Caldeira
Please forgive the endless self-promotion: A nicely produced wide ranging 45-minute interview: https://soundcloud.com/inquiringminds/79-ken-caldeira-can-geoengineering-save-the-planet http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/03/geoengineering-caldeira-climate-change ENVIRONMENT http

[geo] First U.S. state proposed legislation on climate engineering (response to Wil Burns defending NAS report)

2015-03-23 Thread Ken Caldeira
for researchers and funding agencies in other countries and could lower the risks associated with albedo modification research. * ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde

Re: [geo] First U.S. state proposed legislation on climate engineering

2015-03-22 Thread Ken Caldeira
If this is real and not a joke, and it passes in its present form, it seems as if someone in Rhode Island could potentially be fined and imprisoned for planting a tree with the intent of absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science

Re: [geo] Geoengineering video playlist

2015-03-21 Thread Ken Caldeira
scientist at the Institution Dept. of Global Ecology, discussing: J. Pongratz , D.B. Lobell, L. Cao, and K. Caldeira, Crop yields in a geoengineered Crop yields in a geoengineered climate: Ken Caldeira https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0LCXNoIu-c Ken Caldeira, scientist at the Institution

Re: [geo] Should We Experiment With Climate Geoengineering? Truth out

2015-02-25 Thread Ken Caldeira
This is also another case in which the term 'geoengineering' is used entirely as a pejorative term. Is the use of the word 'geoengineering' to describe things like no-till agriculture intended to illuminate, or merely increase the heat? No-till agriculture is considered 'geoengineering' only

[geo] Can anybody provide a list of solar geoengineering simulations using coupled climate-carbon models?

2015-02-25 Thread Ken Caldeira
. I apologize in advance. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu website: http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/ blog: http://kencaldeira.org @KenCaldeira My

Re: [geo] Burning Trees for Electricity Is Actually Dirtier Than Coal

2015-02-21 Thread Ken Caldeira
The primary point of this letter (attached) is that the USA EPA is suggesting that biomass energy should be considered carbon-neutral because the carbon in the biomass originally came from the atmosphere. A more scientifically justifiable approach would consider the change in carbon stocks in

Re: [geo] What If We Lost the Sky? NYT on sky whitening

2015-02-20 Thread Ken Caldeira
Can anybody provide me with a citation to contemporaneous accounts of the Mt Pinatubo layer where someone was complaining about negative effects of whiter skies? Is there any documentation of ill health effects of whiter skies after Mt Pinatubo? Has anybody provided a clear citation quantifying

Re: [geo] Exploring public perceptions of stratospheric sulfate injection - Climatic Change

2015-02-18 Thread Ken Caldeira
I was at a dinner last night where someone asked 'Is there someway to get the sulfur into the stratosphere without putting up chemicals?' I think the word 'chemical' had a negative connotation for this person. I asked, 'Is water a chemical?' -- My guess is that public opinion will be sensitive

Re: [geo] Geoengineering is no place for corporate profit making. Hamilton. Guardian.

2015-02-17 Thread Ken Caldeira
://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu website: http

Re: [geo] Chill factor at 'cia' weather query | Daily Mail Online and BBC interview

2015-02-15 Thread Ken Caldeira
as a weapon.* So, while I share Alan's contempt for the criminal behavior of our secretive governmental agencies, I do not think it is helpful to speculate that in this instance, the agencies are looking for new ways that they might inflict suffering on others. Best, Ken ___ Ken Caldeira

[geo] Comment on Guardian piece on business opportunities in geoengineering

2015-02-12 Thread Ken Caldeira
, Ken ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://kencaldeira.com https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira My assistant is Dawn Ross dr...@carnegiescience.edu, with access

Re: [geo] A closer look at the flawed studies behind policies used to promote 'low-carbon' biofuels | University of Michigan News

2015-02-12 Thread Ken Caldeira
problem, to paraphrase Bill Clinton, it's the energy system, stupid. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://kencaldeira.com https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira

[geo] Guardian piece on business opportunities and 'climate intervention'

2015-02-11 Thread Ken Caldeira
climate change, the more likely we are to need climate intervention technologies. That may yet be a viable business opportunity, says Ken Caldeira [image: An illustration of a geoengineering] http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/feb/11/climate-engineering-money-opportunity-business

Re: [geo] Web site launch: GeoengineeringMonitor.org

2015-02-09 Thread Ken Caldeira
to increase understanding of ways that might be able to reduce environmental risk should our greenhouse gas emissions cause a real climate catastrophe. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212

Re: [geo] Excellent paper by Wally Broecker on air capture of carbon dioxide

2015-02-07 Thread Ken Caldeira
generations are willing to pay the price, so much the better. Industrial air capture at climatically important scales should at this time be considered a research topic, not a deployable option. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street

[geo] Fwd: February 10 Public Briefing: Release of Reports on Climate Intervention

2015-02-04 Thread Ken Caldeira
View this email in your browser http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=18fe6f8f25ec0bc7509e65e97id=3fce288010e=6b6abdf5d2 http://nas-sites.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=18fe6f8f25ec0bc7509e65e97id=392ac55194e=6b6abdf5d2 *Climate Intervention Reports: Release Event February 10* The

Re: [geo] Washington Post op ed

2015-02-02 Thread Ken Caldeira
for the ball to roll 1/4 way down the plane. http://galileo.rice.edu/lib/student_work/experiment95/inclined_plane.html Science advances by tackling simple idealized cases first, and then adding complexity later. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260

Re: [geo] Energy Planning and Decarbonization Technology | The Energy Collective

2015-01-24 Thread Ken Caldeira
Mike's 90% reduction in emissions number was already taking into consideration natural sinks. Your other points are well taken. On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Greg Rau gh...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Mike, If it takes a 90% cut in CO2 to stop the rise in atmospheric concentration, we are

Re: [geo] Moderation policy

2015-01-13 Thread Ken Caldeira
Andrew, I would just like to take this opportunity to thank you for your efforts. Moderation is a thankless task as you will get criticized for letting posts through and criticized for blocking posts, and nobody will thank you in either case. --- The few times I have tried to use this group to

Re: [geo] (open) Solar geoengineering to limit the rate of temperature change

2014-12-28 Thread Ken Caldeira
with reference to empirical facts. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira My assistant is Dawn Ross

[geo] A summary of effectiveness of cloud seeding for precipitation enhancement on 538.

2014-12-26 Thread Ken Caldeira
precisely how well cloud seeding works. Studies like the Wyoming one require lots of time and money, so there's not a lot of interest in replicating it, Deshler says. People just want more water. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street

Re: [geo] Asilomar moments: formative framings in recombinant DNA and solar climate engineering research

2014-12-21 Thread Ken Caldeira
/nclimate/journal/v3/n11/full/nclimate2036.html *Caldeira, Ken; Ricke, Katharine L. (2013): Prudence on solar climate engineering. In Nature Climate change 3 (11), p. 941-941. DOI 10.1038/nclimate2036 * ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama

Re: [geo] Asilomar moments: formative framings in recombinant DNA and solar climate engineering research

2014-12-21 Thread Ken Caldeira
. John Harte Professor of Ecosystem Sciences ERG/ESPM 310 Barrows Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 USA jha...@berkeley.edu On Dec 21, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Ken Caldeira kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu wrote: This kind of thinking is dangerous: *Even small-scale

Re: [geo] Cairns : Will SRM enhance global security in a changing climate?

2014-12-09 Thread Ken Caldeira
/optout. -- ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira My assistant is Dawn Ross dr

Re: [geo] River rectification as an historical antecedent to geoengineering

2014-11-27 Thread Ken Caldeira
. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira My assistant is Dawn Ross dr...@carnegiescience.edu

[geo] Fwd: SRM Science 2015 Call for abstracts announcement of keynote speakers

2014-11-25 Thread Ken Caldeira
Radiation Management Science 2015 12-14 March 2015. Cambridge, UK.* http://www.srms-cambridge.eng.cam.ac.uk/ Keynote speakers: *David Keith*, Harvard University *Ken Caldeira*, Stanford University *Phil Rasch*, Pacific Northwest National Labs *David MacKay FRS*, University of Cambridge *Matthew Watson

Re: [geo] Re: Video : Geoengineering - What could go wrong? | MSNBC

2014-11-01 Thread Ken Caldeira
routinely face. I argue that we should move away from this idea of 'geoengineering exceptionalism' and treat research in this area much like we would treat analogous research in any other area. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street

[geo] Postdoctoral Opportunity: Global Energy Systems, Decision-making, and Climate

2014-10-16 Thread Ken Caldeira
for up to a maximum of four years. The positions will involve working with Ken Caldeira at the Carnegie Institution for Science Department of Global Ecology on the Stanford University campus. Carnegie Institution post-docs have access to most Stanford facilities. Key factors in our hiring decisions

Re: [geo] Arctic sea ice depletion to result in rise of CO2 in atmosphere | Zee News

2014-09-23 Thread Ken Caldeira
. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira Assistant: Dawn Ross dr...@carnegiescience.edu On Wed

Re: [geo] Climate geoengineering: issues of path-dependence and socio-technical lock-in - Cairns - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

2014-09-11 Thread Ken Caldeira
for various CDR and solar geoengineering scenarios. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira

Re: [geo] Thermostats and dials

2014-08-29 Thread Ken Caldeira
sorry. don't know. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira Assistant: Dawn Ross dr

Re: [geo] Geo-engineering impacts on biodiversity - 4/11/2014, Bristol UK

2014-08-27 Thread Ken Caldeira
, the models could be wrong and.or not consider important processes. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com

[geo] Interview on solar geoengineering at CEC14 with Brian Merchant in VICE

2014-08-26 Thread Ken Caldeira
Please note that this is neither my headline nor my claim. For better or worse, in all my inarticulateness, this is what I said to reporter at a coffee break at the CEC14 conference. (No chance to go back and edit.) -Ken http://motherboard.vice.com/read/ken-caldeira-climate-geoengineering

Re: [geo] Reassessment of satellite-based estimate of aerosol climate forcing - Ma - JGR Atmospheres - Wiley

2014-08-22 Thread Ken Caldeira
Isn't all of this excessive political correctness over potential geoengineering experiments likely to make it more difficult to do experiments aimed at better understand aerosol forcing? Can somebody who believes that a certain class of experiments requires exceptional treatment by virtue of

[geo] News from CEC14: experimental work on such techniques

2014-08-21 Thread Ken Caldeira
, the full text of which is here http://i.imgur.com/o44piVU.jpg. One scientist, geochemist Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Global Ecology in Palo Alto, California, told *Motherboard'*s http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-royal-society-of-london-proposes-framework

[geo] Observations from CEC14

2014-08-21 Thread Ken Caldeira
is that there is nothing special about geoengineering research -- let's see an end to 'geoengineering exceptionalism'. -- ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http

[geo] Re: Observations from CEC14

2014-08-21 Thread Ken Caldeira
is in a neighbour's house, not the householder's. I'm hoping to work this discussion up into a paper, and if anyone is interested in collaboration, please let me know. A On 21 Aug 2014 11:00, Ken Caldeira kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu'); wrote

[geo] Re: Observations from CEC14

2014-08-21 Thread Ken Caldeira
can include some others.) Inserts below. On Aug 21, 2014, at 3:00 AM, Ken Caldeira kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu'); wrote: I heard much more talk at CEC14 about reducing risk posed by attempts to reduce risk from climate change than

Re: [geo] Response to Svoboda and Irvine, J Reynolds

2014-08-12 Thread Ken Caldeira
was caused intentionally versus merely knowingly? (By the way, paper is behind a paywall that Stanford libraries does not tunnel through, so I am operating solely on the basis of the text below.) ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama

Re: [geo] Response to Svoboda and Irvine, J Reynolds

2014-08-12 Thread Ken Caldeira
change that is produced intentionally versus climate change that is produced knowingly? If I emit CO2 with the intent of changing climate versus the intent of driving to work, does that change anything relevant to compensation or attribution issues? ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie

[geo] Panel, not keynote: 1. What are the important tractable research problems in solar geoengineering? (Help me prepare for CEC14)

2014-08-11 Thread Ken Caldeira
Folks, I was in error. I am in part of an opening panel at CEC14 (not keynote talk). Your responses will help inform our discussion but will not feed into a keynote talk. Best, Ken ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street

Re: [geo] Re: Enough of govern-nonsense

2014-08-08 Thread Ken Caldeira
not even publicly contemplate. http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0910/More-than-200-000-people-apply-for-a-one-way-trip-to-Mars Sometimes, avoiding risk of doing damage means avoiding doing something good. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology

[geo] 1. What are the important tractable research problems in solar geoengineering? (Help me prepare for CEC14)

2014-08-05 Thread Ken Caldeira
. Thanks, Ken ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira Assistant: Dawn Ross dr

[geo] 2. What are some potentially false 'memes' related to solar geoengineering?

2014-08-05 Thread Ken Caldeira
appreciated. If you want to start discussion about a meme, please do so in a separate thread so that this thread can be easily used to develop a list. Thanks, Ken ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704

Re: [geo] Enough of govern-nonsense

2014-08-03 Thread Ken Caldeira
. As a consequence, it seems as if the ratio of governance/ethics papers to papers reporting new empirical facts is increasing without bound. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde

(ratio of governance-ethics to physical science papers): [geo] Enough of govern-nonsense

2014-08-03 Thread Ken Caldeira
___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira Assistant: Dawn Ross dr...@carnegiescience.edu On Sun, Aug 3

Re: [geo] Failure to deal with ethics will make climate engineering 'unviable'

2014-07-31 Thread Ken Caldeira
Unfortunately, failure to deal with ethics also makes it viable to continue greenhouse gas emissions. On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Andrew Lockley andrew.lock...@gmail.com wrote: Failure to deal with ethics will make climate engineering 'unviable' http://gu.com/p/4vd69 Failure to deal

Re: [geo] Multi model assessment of regional climate disparities caused by solar geoengineering

2014-07-23 Thread Ken Caldeira
Will there be a follow up paper focused on the regional climate disparities that might be alleviated by solar geoengineering? ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde

Re: [geo] Climate engineering reconsidered : Nature Climate Change

2014-06-25 Thread Ken Caldeira
aerosols in the stratosphere instead of annexing Crimea, would the political and military response really have been much greater? ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde

Re: [geo] Advancing Interdisciplinary Discussions of Climate Engineering - Guest Post - Rachael Shwom, Rutgers University | WGC

2014-06-08 Thread Ken Caldeira
? ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira Assistant: Dawn Ross dr...@carnegiescience.edu

Re: [geo] Maybe it is hopeless

2014-06-06 Thread Ken Caldeira
result. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira Assistant: Dawn Ross dr

Re: Fw: [geo] Battling Promethean dreams and Trojan horses: Revealing the critical discourses of geoengineering -- ScienceDirect

2014-06-02 Thread Ken Caldeira
. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira Assistant: Dawn Ross dr...@carnegiescience.edu On Mon

[geo] Fwd: [ignoreable] Comments at Geoengineering panel at EGU last week

2014-05-07 Thread Ken Caldeira
There is a video of a 90 minute panel discussion on geoengineering from last Thursday at EGU available at: http://client.cntv.at/EGU2014/?play=48 Panel discussion at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014 with Ken Caldeira (Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution

Re: [geo] new article by Clive Hamilton

2014-04-24 Thread Ken Caldeira
and the draft as finally approved by governments, with some documentation for who objected to what and why. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http

Re: [geo] (Chemtrailers put up advertising) Billboards Against Climate Engineering

2014-04-22 Thread Ken Caldeira
of religious belief. (I believe that God causes X, so when I see X, that reaffirms my belief in God and my co-believers reinforce my beliefs.) Best, Ken ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde

[geo] Is solar geoengineering like morphine for a cancer patient? Interview on the Tavis Smiley show

2014-04-20 Thread Ken Caldeira
My interview on climate change on the Tavis Smiley show aired last Friday is now available streaming: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365228019/ . Question about geoengineering comes at about minute 8:00. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260

Re: [geo] Is solar geoengineering like morphine for a cancer patient? Interview on the Tavis Smiley show

2014-04-20 Thread Ken Caldeira
of failing to fulfill our ethical obligations? Best, Ken ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com

[geo] KQED radio discussion of geoengineering (with 3 calls on ChemTrails)

2014-04-15 Thread Ken Caldeira
with iron to stimulate phytoplankton growth. *Host: *Michael Krasny *Guests:* - Ken Caldeira, climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University - Craig Miller, science editor for KQED - David Winickoff, associate professor

Re: [geo] BBC News - UN dilemma over 'Cinderella' technology (BECCS)

2014-04-12 Thread Ken Caldeira
Note that the quoted statement was a quote from one individual at one time and does not represent an IPCC position. On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:42 AM, skonem...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi All, This statement is really very limitative Beccs is the only technology currently available that can reverse

Re: [geo] Many nations wary of extracting carbon from air to fix climate | Reuters

2014-04-09 Thread Ken Caldeira
or oppose CDR. We should be talking about whether we support research into (and deployment of) specific CDR approaches in specific circumstances. Best, Ken ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212

Re: [geo] Detection limits of albedo changes induced by climate engineering : Nature Climate Change : Nature Publishing Group

2014-04-02 Thread Ken Caldeira
Also, note that if the intention were to detect a rogue deployment it would be a simple thing to monitor telecommunications, observe ships, aircraft, etc by satellite or by airplane overflights, etc. So, this paper has little relevance to the detection of rogue deployments. On Wed, Apr 2,

Re: [geo] How can research into geoengineering be governed to limit its environmental and political risks?

2014-04-02 Thread Ken Caldeira
that the primary reason for a climate engineering governance regime is to cater to people who oppose knowledge generation. Best, Ken ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http

Re: [geo] Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization: Testing a Two-channel Model of Science Communication :: SSRN

2014-03-06 Thread Ken Caldeira
with diverse groups. It is great to see a top-notch group like this doing this important work. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs

Re: [geo] Destroying Planet Earth: Geoengineering is the Ultimate Hubris, without Democratic Control | Global Research

2014-02-23 Thread Ken Caldeira
, and allow our differences be based on differences in values and differences in uncertain assessments of likely outcomes of possible courses of action? Without shared facts, there is little room for fruitful discussion. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global

Re: [geo] James Fleming with A Brief History of Weather and Climate Control

2014-01-20 Thread Ken Caldeira
Note that carbon dioxide removal is also meaningful in various biological and other settings, so need not refer to removal from the atmosphere. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde

Re: [geo] What Would Heidegger Say About Geoengineering? Clive Hamilton | ANTHEM

2014-01-19 Thread Ken Caldeira
of statements, and so on. They try to make explicit what is usually implicit in scientific inquiry. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu

Re: [geo] What Would Heidegger Say About Geoengineering? Clive Hamilton | ANTHEM

2014-01-19 Thread Ken Caldeira
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger_and_Nazism Are we supposed to be concerned that a Nazi might have disapproved of SRM? Are we supposed to be persuaded of the infallibility of his judgment? Is this relevant to any important current discussion? ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution

Re: [geo] CRS on GE

2013-12-08 Thread Ken Caldeira
geoengineering is in effect a pejorative term, isn't it time that we refine its scope so that it refers only to activities that pose novel risks? ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde

[geo] cloud seeding in California

2013-11-11 Thread Ken Caldeira
/11/5898983/cloud-seeding-no-longer-magical.html ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira

Re: [geo] Re: J. Fleming Opinion Article A History of Weather and Climate Control

2013-11-09 Thread Ken Caldeira
Apologies to JIm Thomas. I had confused Jim Lee and Jim Thomas. Sorry. As far as I know, Jim Lee has nothing to do with ETC. On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Ken Caldeira kcalde...@carnegiescience.eduwrote: To expand on this: The nutters clearly link HAARP with weather modification

Re: [geo] Robock and Kravitz on Use of Models, Analogs and Field-tests for Geoengineering Research

2013-10-29 Thread Ken Caldeira
of technologies.* ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Ken

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