[geo] Know thy enemy...

2011-07-28 Thread Rau, Greg
What is most sobering, especially for the scientific community and climate change communicators, is that climate change denial has actually increased in the U.S. general public between 2001 and 2010, although primarily due to a significant increase in the past two years. Conservative white

[geo] Re: Jim Hansen : 1 to 2DegC and 20m sea level rise

2011-07-28 Thread Nathan Currier
Hi, Michael - That's great. Thanks for offering that.. Sorry, I don't believe I ever saw your previous posts about starting a website - I don't always get to look at the geoengineering group daily and then end up missing things. About a year back (late last July), something I proposed was

Re: [geo] Know thy enemy...

2011-07-28 Thread Michael Hayes
Fox News has a heavy hand in what is being reported. Here is a Guardian report going back to 12/10: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/15/fox-news-climate-change-email In short, the report shows a planned action to enforces global warming skepticism. Here is a distasteful taste of the the

[geo] Re: Arctic methane workshop, London, 15-16th October CONFIRMED

2011-07-28 Thread Nathan Currier
Hi Andrew, Sam, Oliver - I heartily agree, think that this is potentially one of the sleepers of the geoengineering world - it is also unique in that it is neither CDR nor SRM would probably be quite safe thus easily enacted. I would doubt that you're going after it the right way, though,

[geo] website for climate science and engineering

2011-07-28 Thread David Mitchell
Dear Michael, I also missed your original email. I agee with you that The need for innovative educational outreach on this issue has been largely ignored, and that the geo-engineering website is an idea whose time has come. Let it become the global website for climate engineering,

[geo] Re: website for climate science and engineering

2011-07-28 Thread Nathan Currier
Hi - Michael, Yousif has just confirmed for me that we could have the website at the same domain we already have. So, I'd like to invite you to do this: I'll keep the domain going, try to revive my wiki idea, and you can start the website there and be the chief administrator of it. Andrew, in

Re: [geo] website for climate science and engineering

2011-07-28 Thread Andrew Lockley
There is already substantial public traffic to Wikipedia on this subject. It's a valuable resource, so please do edit it. Serious scientific analysis reports are run on a fairly regular basis, such as by the Royal Society. I don't think that awareness is a problem, and if anything, coverage has

Re: [geo] Re: Arctic methane workshop, London, 15-16th October CONFIRMED

2011-07-28 Thread Andrew Lockley
This proposed method of methane remediation is similar to the existing sink, as although OH radical production isn't strictly catalytic, it does recycle NOx. Whether the chemistry works or not is something I can't comment on. However, I don't think that TiO2 is likely to be practical. Although

[geo] New paleo study on ice sheets and sea level rise

2011-07-28 Thread Wil Burns
*Sr-Nd-Pb Isotope Evidence for Ice-Sheet Presence on Southern Greenland During the Last Interglacial* Elizabeth J. Colville *et al.* Melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet contributed substantially to the excess sea-level rise of the last interglacial period.

Re: [geo] Re: Arctic methane workshop, London, 15-16th October CONFIRMED

2011-07-28 Thread nathan currier
Hi, Andrew - It would be great if someone like Mike MacCracken could comment on some of the chemistry in your posting - in that it seems to me confusing, and, I suspect, somewhat confused. Could you, Andrew, show the reactions that you're thinking of, so I could understand better? You say that -