Hi Ken and Greg,
Reflecting on your point, Greg, it is extraordinary the widespread
antagonism to geoengineering, when it is so obviously needed to reduce CO2
in the atmosphere and to prevent Arctic meltdown. We all ought to be
campaigning for a grasping of the nettle of reality. We cannot rely
Thanks John. I share your sense of urgency. Given what is clearly at stake, it
is amazing that we are forced to have discussions like this, in the absence of
any effective global call to arms. It doesn't help that there isn't clarity in
the science community on the seriousness of the problem
In the article Ken attached, the text offers the view on CDR (which
included BECCS) that None of these currently can be deployed quickly on a
large scale.. Funding is the only limiting factor for many of the CDR
methods. And, this view of CDR being a non-starter on the scale side of the
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/2014EO23/asset/eost2014EO23.pdf?v=1t=hvip8icos=b0ec7713c061bf0df5261c8049de962020c6d8b1
Selected quotes:
If it's enough of an emergency to deploy the solar geoengineering system, it's
enough of an emergency to stop deploying devices--power
