Hi All
Alan and David said that the drought problem might be made worse by
solar radiation management because it cools the land more than the sea
and so weakens monsoons.
If only there were a way to cool the sea more than the land.
Stephen
Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design. School
Hi -- I agree with this skeptical assessment of certainty, especially with
regard to impacts on regional and subregional climates and biomes critical
to human life society, but as many on this list argue, the issue i
choosing between
a) BAU emissions with high confidence of major impacts 3-5C
Robert, I partly agree with you but totally disagree when you say, I quote
:
Clive naïvely asserts that we can't understand enough about how the Earth
system operates in order to take control of it. This is a religious
argument that ignores global realities. This statement is more religious
It seems to me what would hopefully be the case (well, I wish we’d do
better, but realistically) is that mitigation involving both is able to
limit CO2e to 550 ppm (so, say a 3 C warming)--this would require, if
emissions were kept constant at the present rate, having fossil fuel
emissions go to
Poster's note : Robock tweeted this, so it's probably not entirely
inaccurate. (Members outside the UK may not be aware that the Daily Mail is
widely derided.)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-2954051/Chill-factor-CIA-weather-query.html
Chill factor at 'CIA' weather query
By Press
