Re: [geo] NAS-Royal Society report - recent new report release

2014-03-06 Thread Greg Rau
Thanks for clarification, Reto. However, where I come from if something is declared irreversible there are no exceptions. A more accurate statement (though perhaps less philosophically diplomatic given the likely personalities involved) might have been “Anthropogenic climate change and ocean aci

Re: [geo] Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization: Testing a Two-channel Model of Science Communication :: SSRN

2014-03-06 Thread Ken Caldeira
>From the abstract of Kahan et al: we found that making citizens aware of the potential contribution of geoengineering as a supplement to restriction of CO2 emissions helps to offset cultural polarization over the validity of climate-change science. subjects exposed to information about geoen

[geo] Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization: Testing a Two-channel Model of Science Communication :: SSRN

2014-03-06 Thread Andrew Lockley
Poster's note : Another study finding negative moral hazard. Paper : http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1981907 Informal discussion : http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2014/2/26/geoengineering-the-science-communication-environment-the-cul.html Geoengineering and Climate Chang

[geo] geoengineering talk by Jackstilgoe London at UCL 13:15 11 March,

2014-03-06 Thread Andrew Lockley
geoengineering talk by @Jackstilgoe London @UCLEvents 13:15 11 March, and streaming online http://t.co/Mr0l4bh5Zn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email

RE: [geo] NAS-Royal Society report - recent new report release

2014-03-06 Thread Knutti Reto
>From a perspective of climate change commitment, the warming resulting from >past emissions (zero emission commitment) stays for centuries and does not go >away, so in that sense is irreversible (unlike for methane for example where >temperature would drop quickly after stopping emissions). Of

Re: [geo] NAS-Royal Society report - recent new report release

2014-03-06 Thread Greg Rau
Thanks Ron.  In fairness, this is a report on climate change evidence and causes, not solutions.  Nevertheless, they couldn't resist some leakage into the prescriptions side: "Citizens and governments can choose among several options (or a mixture of those options) in response to this informatio

[geo] NAS-Royal Society report - recent new report release

2014-03-06 Thread Ronal W. Larson
List:cc Drs. Caldeira and Rau 1. I hope we can have some comment on last week's release of the NAS - Royal Society report entitled: A Discussion on Climate Change: Evidence and Causes It can be downloaded for free at http://nas-sites.org/americasclimatechoices/events/a-discussi