[geo] Trajectory sensitivity of the transient climate response to cumulative carbon emissions - Krasting - GRL - Wiley

2014-03-04 Thread Andrew Lockley
Poster's note : This will be of interest to those examining GGR trajectories, and the interplay between SRM and mitigation. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL059141/abstract?utm_content=buffer11d58utm_medium=socialutm_source=twitter.comutm_campaign=buffer Keywords: climate

[geo] Physics Today artidcle

2014-03-04 Thread euggordon
Would anyone like to comment on this? It certainly deserves comment since right or wrong it appears in an authoritative journal. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.8034?dm_i=1Y69,27QSN,E1MP2T,80LVA,1 -- You received this message because you are

Re: [geo] Re: Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization: Testing a Two-channel Model of Science Communication, Ann. Am. Acad. Pol. Soc. Sci.

2014-03-04 Thread John Nissen
Hi Greg, The theory is that people tend to be polarised into two camps. One camp is against the idea that climate change can have anything to do with our greenhouse gas emissions; and therefore (subconsciously) this camp is against geoengineering because it would admit of a massive problem to be

Re: [geo] Re: Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization: Testing a Two-channel Model of Science Communication, Ann. Am. Acad. Pol. Soc. Sci.

2014-03-04 Thread Andrew Lockley
My understanding is that many conservatives are rather fond of geoengineering as it allows the continuing BAU pathway (at least superficially). Further, as David Keith has pointed out, a degree of moral hazard is entirely rational. However, what's surprising is that a degree of negative or

Re: [geo] Alternative to Wind turbines as hurricane tamers?

2014-03-04 Thread Michael Hayes
The issue of energy distribution (getting the energy to shore) seems to be a key operational and financial consideration. Having both the profits from wind/wave/otec/solar energy conversion and MCB would help overcome the high cost of the gear while establishing the largest possible cooling

Re: [geo] Physics Today artidcle

2014-03-04 Thread David Appell
Bart Verheggen makes a pretty good case that the Christy Spencer graph of model vs observed results is misleading, for two reasons: it uses only 5-year running averages, and because of the way it re-baselines:

Re: [geo] Physics Today article

2014-03-04 Thread Mike MacCracken
And then there is Holdren¹s rebuttal of Christy. See http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/03/3349411/john-holdren-roger-pielk e-climate-drought/ Mike On 3/4/14 4:15 PM, David Appell david.app...@gmail.com wrote: Bart Verheggen makes a pretty good case that the Christy Spencer graph

Re: [geo] Physics Today article

2014-03-04 Thread Mike MacCracken
OOPS‹wrong skeptic. But article is god in any case. Mike And then there is Holdren¹s rebuttal of Christy. See http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/03/3349411/john-holdren-roger-pielk e-climate-drought/ Mike On 3/4/14 4:15 PM, David Appell david.app...@gmail.com wrote: Bart

Re: [geo] Re: Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization: Testing a Two-channel Model of Science Communication, Ann. Am. Acad. Pol. Soc. Sci.

2014-03-04 Thread Rau, Greg
Buck up, John. Once the real hazards of rising sea level, failed crops, and acidified oceans materialize, the decision-makers just might yearn for some hazards of the moral kind. And you and I might still be around when that happens. Even then there is no guarantee that any countering action