Re: [geo] Paul Hawken et al Weigh In

2017-04-16 Thread 'Robert Tulip' via geoengineering
Adam Your quantification of the world carbon storage need at 800 GtC has to be annualised to produce a realistic path and to address the problem you raise of the absence of viable technologies for climate stabilisation.   Humans add about ten gigatonnes of carbon to the air every year, in the

Re: [geo] Paul Hawken et al Weigh In

2017-04-16 Thread Dave Stanley
"I have thus far seen no viable CDR scenarios that depend on social/political/economic change alone in the absence of major technological shifts. " The so-called Green Revolution to food production across the planet has been almost exclusively been at the price of significant increased fossil

[geo] Local temperature response to land cover and management change driven by non-radiative processes

2017-04-16 Thread Andrew Lockley
https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v7/n4/full/nclimate3250.html Local temperature response to land cover and management change driven by non-radiative processes - Ryan M. Bright , - Edouard Davin

RE: [geo] Woody Biomass for Power and Heat Impacts on the Global Climate

2017-04-16 Thread Bernard Mercer
Hi all, Below is a link to a short synthesis report from Chatham House that accompanies their “Woody Biomass for Power and Heat” report, which Andrew referenced below. And some other links to post-publication comment and critique. If nothing else, the report has brought the strong academic