RE: [geo] Re: Playing God With the Planet - The Ethics Politics of Geoengineering

2013-08-11 Thread John Latham
Jim, There is much that I agree with you about, and I find it frustrating that what could perhaps be construed by some as shrillness on your part produces an alienation which prohibits your receiving the support that you deserve. You say, for example:- Technology and control the direction of

[geo] Re: Lateline - 22/11/2012: One of the worlds leading geo-engineering proponents, Harvard Professor David Keith

2013-08-11 Thread Brian Cartwright
A lot of geoengineering discussion has the common feature of looking only at the atmosphere. Well, the CO2 that creates warming is part of a carbon cycle that includes reservoirs much larger than the atmosphere: the ocean is the biggest, but another very big place to store carbon is the

[geo] Climate Change Geoengineering: Philosophical Perspectives, Legal Issues, and Governance Frameworks:Amazon:Books

2013-08-11 Thread Andrew Lockley
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1107023939 Climate Change Geoengineering: Philosophical Perspectives, Legal Issues, and Governance Frameworks:Amazon:Books Product Description The international community is not taking the action necessary to avert dangerous increases in greenhouse gases. Facing

Re: [geo] Re: Playing God With the Planet - The Ethics Politics of Geoengineering

2013-08-11 Thread Ken Caldeira
Jim, What are you attempting to imply by sending out something under the heading: Bill Gates and world's top Geoengineers collaborate on patentshttp://www.techdirt.com/blog/?company=searete : *Hurricane Protection for Cash*! 1. Is your implication that Bill Gates sees geoengineering as an easy

RE: [geo] The dangers of trying to set the Earth's thermostat - USA TODAY

2013-08-11 Thread Rau, Greg
How about the dangers of the alternative: Continuing to unset the Earth's thermostat (and pH-stat)? ...the temptation to seriously consider a technological fix will become irresistible to many. Let's hope so! Are we going to solve the CO2 problem in the absence of technology - new renewable

Re: [geo] Re: Lateline - 22/11/2012: One of the worlds leading geo-engineering proponents, Harvard Professor David Keith

2013-08-11 Thread Ken Caldeira
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2012/s3639096.htm TONY JONES: Is it clear now or is it becoming clearer that the best strategy if you wanted to go to a global scale would be literally flooding the stratosphere with sulphate particles? DAVID KEITH: I think the honest answer has to be that

[geo] Ship-Tracks!! Re: Lateline - 22/11/2012: One of the worlds leading geo-engineering proponents, Harvard Professor David Keith

2013-08-11 Thread John Latham
Or one could, if so disposed, make an equivalent case for Marine Cloud Brightening, (MCB) since oceanic ships have been producing higher reflectivity ship tracks for a century or more. Cheers,John. lat...@ucar.edu John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000

[geo] PS TO LAST!!: Ship-Tracks!! Re: Lateline - 22/11/2012: One of the worlds leading geo-engineering proponents, Harvard Professor David Keith

2013-08-11 Thread John Latham
From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com [geoengineering@googlegroups.com] on behalf of John Latham [john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk] Sent: 12 August 2013 02:36 To: kcalde...@gmail.com; macma...@cds.caltech.edu Cc: m2des...@cablespeed.com;