This is an excellent, concise summary of the lock-in effect I've been
droning on about for years, and I think it is still vastly
un(der)appreciated by people concerned/engaged with climate change. There
is some high-profile acknowledgement of this situation, e.g. IEA's top
economist, Fatih
Dear All,
I also was at the NASA Ames meeting. It was my first geoengineering
meeting, and it was there that I was struck with the very enthusiastic
endorsement of geoengineering as a solution to global warming by people
who did not seem to be aware of the potential negative impacts. But Lane
Dear Alan
Can you tell me which of your 26 objections apply to marine cloud
brightening?
I am sure that many of the people who want research on but not
deployment of geoengineering systems are greatly reassured that you are
there to spot the nasty problems. Keep up your valuable work.
I
I think it's important to distinguish between the effects of advocacy and
the inertia of the energy system. I believe the inertia is huge relative
to the effects of advocacy because of the tremendous switching costt of
infrastructure, distribution, power systems. Advocacy affects choices at
the
