[geo] Arctic Council meeting on Thursday - the truth is out

2011-05-13 Thread John Nissen
Dear Professor Watson, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/9483790.stm How absurd. Now we have it confirmed that the Arctic Council is there, not to pretect the Arctic, but to carve up the resources. And now we know that the people involved ARE rubbing their hands with glee as

RE: [geo] Re: New law review symposium issue on geoengineering

2011-05-13 Thread Hawkins, Dave
Correct Ken. But the more relevant question is a political science question: what would the impact be of a substantial SRM program on various countries' willingness to undertake a serious emission mitigation program. We cannot assume that these two societal decisions are independent. Personally,

Re: [geo] Re: New law review symposium issue on geoengineering

2011-05-13 Thread Ken Caldeira
agree 100% On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Hawkins, Dave dhawk...@nrdc.org wrote: Correct Ken. But the more relevant question is a political science question: what would the impact be of a substantial SRM program on various countries' willingness to undertake a serious emission

Re: [geo] Senate hearing

2011-05-13 Thread rongretlarson
Greg (cc list). Thanks for alerting us to this video, which I have watched. I learned a good bit more from the pre-filed testimony and then reading the (not very long) bill. The bill authorizes (but not appropriates) mainly for a still not quite fixed indemnification process. I would expect

Re: [geo] Can SRM save our bacon? An honest answer shows why more/new SRM options are needed

2011-05-13 Thread Stephen Salter
Mark You raise a number of objections to marine cloud brightening which I will deal with in order. Nature does not like uneven mixtures and uses turbulence to make things more homogenious. The bottom of the marine boundary layer is quite turbulent. You can do you own experiments with

[geo] Re: Robert Meyers (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (Springer, 2011) | Invitation to Contribute

2011-05-13 Thread Stephen Salter
Sara Kate It may be 'standard publishing procedure' but it is not right for a two billion dollar company to be indemnified for unlimited risk by an old age pensioner however small the risk. if you insist on it I will have to withdraw the contribution. I will be urging my colleagues, many

[geo] Re: New law review symposium issue on geoengineering

2011-05-13 Thread GeoengPhD
There are too many interesting issues in this thread for me to respond to so I'll just focus on intergenerational justice. Adjusting our behaviour to account for the interests of future generations raises a number of challenging problems. The endeavour assumes several things: a) that we have the

RE: [geo] Arctic Council meeting on Thursday - the truth is out

2011-05-13 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
The methane tends to be devoured by microbes. However, methane supply may exceed availability of other necessary nutrients such as oxygen and trace elements that living organisms require. Thus there is a saturation point where methane conversion to carbon dioxide stops, after this the methane

[geo] Internaitonal Workshop on the CO2 Removal from the Atmosphere

2011-05-13 Thread Wil Burns
FYI. wil -- Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 2875 Shasta Road Berkeley, CA 94708 USA Ph: 650.281.9126 Fax: 510.779.5361 ji...@internationalwildlifelaw.org http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13880292.asp SSRN site: http://ssrn.com/author=240348

[geo] Re: Can SRM save our bacon? An honest answer shows why more/new SRM options are needed

2011-05-13 Thread Michael Hayes
Hello Mark, Concerning cryogenic use, have you factored in the Atmospheric Electrical aspects of CCN? It is a rarely talked about issue, but there is clear indications that CCN has an electrical aspect. Here are a few references. If your concept gets to the modeling stage, the modelers

[geo] Re: Lecture on Methane Hydrates by Dr. Mariam Kastner

2011-05-13 Thread Michael Hayes
Hi Folks, Andrew, I did not have that extreme degree of aeration in mind. And, I can not see massively enhanced methane excursions happening if reasonable bubblers designs are developed. First and formost, the core of the concept is to increase the O2 saturation a few percent for as deep as

Re: [geo] Re: Lecture on Methane Hydrates by Dr. Mariam Kastner

2011-05-13 Thread voglerlake
One last thought, I would like to call this effort Sea Worm. Michael On May 13, 2011 7:29pm, Michael Hayes voglerl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folks, Andrew, I did not have that extreme degree of aeration in mind. And, I can not see massively enhanced methane excursions happening if