[geo] SECURITY UPDATE : Chemtrails/conspiracy rally planned for 'Hack the Sky' Caldeira talk.

2013-05-06 Thread Andrew Lockley
Poster's note : see bottom of below piece for info on rally. Suggest that any well known researchers avoid the area. May be worth asking police to attend. I would advise searching audience for concealed arms before allowing entry.

Re: [geo] New climate article, peripherally related to CDR

2013-05-06 Thread Fred Zimmerman
I like the idea of listing many (most?) of the known processes. I believe that GE in general suffers from a lack of synoptic thinking as advocates of individual technologies become single issue voters. --- Fred Zimmerman Geoengineering IT! Bringing together the worlds of geoengineering and

[geo] Japanese cloud seeding with liquid carbonic acid

2013-05-06 Thread Fred Zimmerman
From Japan Times http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/06/national/japanese-cloud-seeding-tests-work-for-second-year-in-row/#.UYfjGZFDsrp 1) this sounds like the same technique as marine cloud brightening--is it? 2) what is the special value (if any) of liquid carbonic acid? Fred Japanese

Re: [geo] Re: China could move first to geoengineer the climate

2013-05-06 Thread John Nissen
Hi Lou, You say it boils down to timing and who's suffering. The assumption from people like Clive Hamilton, who are anti-geoengineering, is that the crisis is some time in the future. But he does not consider the situation in the Arctic where the sea ice is in a death spiral, with

[geo] FW: Prof Carlos M. Duarte on the Guardian's story about a White House meeting on the Arctic: it was an entire fabrication.

2013-05-06 Thread Mike MacCracken
I though there might be interest in this forwarded message to a colleague. Mike From: Carlos Duarte [mailto:carlos.dua...@uwa.edu.au] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 10:27 AM To: Subject: Re: can you tell me anything about the White House briefing no the Arctic that reportedly took place last week?

Re: [geo] FW: Prof Carlos M. Duarte on the Guardian's story about a White House meeting on the Arctic: it was an entire fabrication.

2013-05-06 Thread Andrew Lockley
As usual with the rarely-correct Gruniad newspaper, I would recommend a complaint to the UK Press Complaints Commission, for anyone affected. A On May 6, 2013 6:39 PM, Mike MacCracken mmacc...@comcast.net wrote: I though there might be interest in this forwarded message to a colleague. Mike

[geo] Warming-induced increase in aerosol number concentration likely to moderate climate change : Nature Geoscience

2013-05-06 Thread Andrew Lockley
Poster's note : manipulation of VOC levels may offer an entirely new geoengineering strategy http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1800.html Warming-induced increase in aerosol number concentration likely to moderate climate change Pauli Paasonen, Ari Asmi, et al Nature

[geo] research on Geo--What are government agencies doing?

2013-05-06 Thread Fulkerson, William
Has anyone started a data base listing what government agencies are doing about various forms of geo? What research is going on? Who is funding it? Why? Who is doing the work? This Google Group could start such a compilation. The best, William Fulkerson wf...@utk.edu 2781 Wheat Road Lenoiir

Re: [geo] Re: China could move first to geoengineer the climate

2013-05-06 Thread Gregory Benford
Mr Hamilton: I don't think it's personal abuse to point out that you oppose research in what may (probably will) be desperately needed in a decade or two. As several here point out, there's a clear present danger in the Arctic. This will worsen and you will have no solution at all. Perhaps you