RE: [geo] Scientists Focused on Geoengineering Challenge the Inevitability of Multi-Millennial Global Warming

2016-09-06 Thread Bernard Mercer
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..

RE: [geo] Woody Biomass for Power and Heat Impacts on the Global Climate

2017-04-16 Thread Bernard Mercer
eport (referenced in the BBC article). Best wishes, Bernard Bernard Mercer Mercer Environment Associates 15 Beardell Street London SE19 1TP 44 (0)7710 407809 bmer...@mercerenvironment.net<mailto:bmer...@mercerenvironment.net> www.mercerenvironment.net<http://www.mercerenvironment.net/> M

RE: [geo] Plan C

2017-05-07 Thread Bernard Mercer
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

RE: [geo] Environmentalists that denounce climate eng research; what to do?

2017-08-28 Thread Bernard Mercer
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

RE: [geo] Re: [CDR] COP24: here's what must be agreed to keep warming at 1.5°C

2018-12-11 Thread Bernard Mercer
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