http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30543252
Shrinking ship bubbles ‘could counteract climate change’
By Rebecca Morelle
Scientists from University of Leeds, UK, say this would create a brighter
wake behind a vessel and reflect more sunlight back into space.
However, it could also
On BBC Radio 4 - 'Inside Science'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053bxy1 *listen from 7 min 38* until 14 min
Interview of Prof. Philp Davies, from Aston University.
*Desalination to produce fresh drinking water is on the rise, but the
bi-products of the process - acidic brine and carbon
Clive Hamilton recently stated in a NYT op-ed that If there is such a
thing as a right-wing technology, geoengineering is it.
I submit that this is a gross oversimplification (or worse), and suggest
that the following piece by a senior fellow at R Street (as in, Republican
Party) is at least
Poster's note : probably one of the more robust attacks on the viability of
CDR I've seen for a while.
http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2772427/survivable_ipcc_projections_are_based_on_science_fiction_the_reality_is_much_worse.html
The Ecologist
Survivable IPCC
I think the IPCC has been quite transparent about the negative emissions
components. And it has not said it will happen, rather that this scale of is
required to solve the cumulative budget equation.
Typed on tiny keyboard. Caveat lector.
On Feb 27, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Oliver Tickell
I would rather see it as an attack on the IPCC's pre-emptive stance
that, before there is such a thing as field-proven CDR, political will
behind it, public acceptance for it, funding mechanisms, etc etc, that
the one and only climatically viable emissions scenario they put forward
sneakily /
http://dcgeoconsortium.org/2015/02/26/measuring-ngo-response-to-nas-climate-intervention-reports-rachael-somerville/
Measuring NGO Response to NAS Climate Intervention Reports – Rachael
Somerville
When I ask fellow college students for their views on climate engineering,
I’m met with blank
http://www.artefactmagazine.com/2015/02/23/climate-engineering-can-we-techno-fix-our-mistakes/
CLIMATE ENGINEERING: CAN WE TECHNO-FIX OUR MISTAKES?
Sebastian Moss
(clipped)
Stefan Schäfer co-leads the research group on climate engineering at the
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
