September 2016 00:57
To: Greg Rau <gh...@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: R. T. Pierrehumbert <phys1...@nexus.ox.ac.uk>; Bernard Mercer
<bmer...@mercerenvironment.net>; andrew.lock...@gmail.com; geoengineering
<geoengineering@googlegroups.com>; Andrew Revkin <rev...@gmail.com>;
cla..
eport (referenced in the BBC article).
Best wishes,
Bernard
Bernard Mercer
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Hi Michael,
I love the invocation of Neil Young, but want to add another perspective to
this. Yes, physics is a part of the problem, but so are other disciplines.
Clive Hamilton points the finger at academics in the social sciences and the
humanities in his brilliant recent article in The
I think it is similar to the problems associated with climate scepticism. I
remember when I first heard about “mirrors in space” as proposed (I think) by
Paul Crutzen, in the early 2000s. I’ve worked in the biodiversity arena since
the mid-1980s, and I was horrified. It seemed a license to
100% agree, and so good that you articulate the case for collaborative
approaches.
The options are not mutually exclusive. We can have regenerative
agriculture/new forests and solar farms in arid lands (and elsewhere). But such
thinking has become less and less evident in the Geoengineering