[geo] BBC E-mail: Trial to reverse global warming

2009-04-21 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Veli Albert Kallio saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you should see it. ** Trial to reverse global warming ** A Sussex businessman has started international trials of a natural method of capturing carbon from the atmosphere and burying it in the ground. http://news.bbc.co.uk

[geo] Where Growth is Being Forced by Law

2009-06-03 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Some good news are starting to trikcle across the Atlantic ... Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:30:16 + From: eac-elet...@angelnexus.com To: albert_kal...@hotmail.com Subject: Where Growth is Being Forced by Law Subscribe to our RSS Feed What is an RSS Feed? Where Growth is

[geo] Submissions Wanted What to Do About Greenhouse Gases

2009-06-04 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Forwarded: If you have any ideas, please feel welcome to submit here: From: i...@campaigncc.org Subject: CCC Climate e-newsletter June 3rd To: albert_kal...@hotmail.com Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:51:12 +0100 Reminder – remember to vote in the elections on Thursday! The Climate

[geo] Energy Capital: Arctic Oil and Gas: A Foregone Conclusion?

2009-06-05 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Here are reference to Arctic and Greenland oil and gas with industry analysts' comments on its significance for the overally energy supply portfolio. Not much. Policy is correct for renewable and nuclear energies to replace oil asap in most countries. Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 16:48:38

[geo] Re: Arctic sea ice - no multi-year ice found

2009-06-09 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
I presume that John was referring to two-season ice, which is not usually considered as multi year ice. Two year ice can be rather weak. What is important on Pen Hadlow's sea ice thickeness that 2,500 holes from Canada to the North Pole produced an average thickeness of 177.4 cm. In my

[geo] About Conversion of Former Carbon Sinks to Methane Craters

2009-06-11 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
/challenges/engineering-our-climate-is-there-a-role -for-geoengineering/media-gallery/video/professor-david-keith/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IESYMFtLIis Veli Albert Kallio wrote: This article provides a good reference point to argue

[geo] Re: Back to Nature

2009-06-12 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Albert Kallio, FRGS From: euggor...@comcast.net To: j...@cloudworld.co.uk; agask...@nc.rr.com CC: geoengineering@googlegroups.com Subject: [geo] Re: Back to Nature Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:12:47 -0400 I think you owe it to yourself to study (it takes only a few minutes) the website

[geo] Re: Back to Nature

2009-06-12 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
of Siberia (an asteroid impact near Antarctica triggered it) caused additional heating of several degrees and virtual extinction of surface life. From: Veli Albert Kallio [mailto:albert_kal...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 8:54 AM To: euggor...@comcast.net; John Nissen; agask...@nc.rr.com Cc

[geo] Re: Back to Nature

2009-06-12 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi Gene, The historic argument is a quite good one. The unmentionables that are not possible to look at are: the intensity of solar output, and accessibility of positive feedbacks into carbon reserves assuming that man-made warming triggered full naturally accessible carbon plus

[geo] Met Office and WMO Must Provide Us Global Annual Wind Speed Average Staistics (and Seasonal Forecasts)

2009-06-14 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
on the climate map can be erased asap. With kind regards, Yours sincerely, Veli Albert Kallio, FRGS Frozen Isthmuses' Protection Campaign of the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans Date: Sun, 14 Jun

[geo] Re: World Bank posting

2009-06-17 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Large mountains like Mauna Kea or other tall volcanic islands could be made to put out SO2, perhaps some of the tall mountainous islands in Southern Seas, as this would not interfere with monsoon, or in Jan Mayen. Greenland's Mt. Gunnbjorn is 4,000 metres high with easternly winds prevailing

[geo] Re: NPR radio story on National Academy geoengineering workshop

2009-06-17 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi, David's observations are right over Ken. If people were entirely rational, Universities of Paris Sorbonne, and Pontificial Gregorian University would have responded positively by sending their experts to stay few nights with Galileo Galilei in 1610 to see that Jupiter's moons did go

[geo] Re: NPR radio story on National Academy geoengineering workshop

2009-06-18 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
The Arctic SO2 reduction is result of direct action of the industries to reduce emission of SO2 in the Arctic. The Finnish Government began by installing SO2 catalysators and filtering systems in the industries to reduce acidification. It was then continued to cars and Finland began paying

[geo] Re: AEI conference on international politics of climate engineering (geoengineering)

2009-06-19 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi All, International Politics and Climate BBC has just produced a report that second country is now committing itself for pull-out from oil exploration and production due to environmental concerns. The benefits from on-shore oil extraction in Nigeria have been very limited in that

[geo] Re: Geoengineering seminar, House of Commons, London, 15th July

2009-07-02 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
and Spitzbergen where these had been studied. (See listed below with relevant links.) 2009: periphery melting of sea ice on record levels on Siberian and Alascan coast and around Greenland, probably second year possible to circumnavigate North Pole this summer. With kind regads, Veli Albert Kallio

[geo] Terrestrial Ice In West Greenland Under Attack from Weather

2009-07-06 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Dear Alan, It is not only melting of sea ice and permafrost that needs to be highlighted. Today's Temperature Legend Map from Foreca shows that Ilulissat Ice Fjord that drains 7% of Greenland ice sheet bathin on top temperatures today between +20-25C. This is substantial heat on the

[geo] FIPC Meeting with His Excellency Bill Clinton (the former President of the United States)

2009-07-10 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
research, emissions, renewables, mitigation and geoengineering to make our life and climate as manageable as possible for global security. With kind regards, Veli Albert Kallio, FRGS FIPC Co-ordinator * Frozen Isthmuses

[geo] Copy of Invitation by Ronald Momogeeshick Peters to Meet former President Bill Clinton

2009-07-12 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
. Ronald Momogeeshick Peters July 10 at 2:15am We are meeting with former President Bill Clinton in Sept. to discuss all prospects and projects. We would like you to be there. Veli Albert Kallio July 11 at 11:45pm Hi Ronald, Do you have and date and time being fixed for me to check

[geo] NEW REPORTS KYOTO CLIMATE TARGETS FAILS: European Union Now More CO2 Intensive

2009-07-17 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
COPY: Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:07:11 -0700 From: eac-elet...@angelnexus.com To: albert_kal...@hotmail.com Subject: Rethinking Climate Policy: Here's a Better Way Follow Energy and Capital on Twitter Home Editors Archives Whitelist Contact Site Map Rethinking Climate

[geo] Urgent - support the Vestas occupation NOW

2009-07-21 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
This shows that all the talk about government creating Green Jobs is just a big spin, if nothing is made to keep manufacturing these parts to make wind turbines how can one create green electricity if not making wind turbine blades. From: i...@campaigncc.org Subject: Urgent - support the

[geo] Re: [clim] Yet another positive feedback - ja

2009-07-27 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hey, Would n't it help to have aeroplanes to drop dimethyl sulphide from higher altitude if these could be scattered wide enough when the sea surface is not releasing enough aerosols? How much stuff needs to be uplifted, taking it miles up and dropping it then down might distribute it

[geo] HALLIBURTON - MODEL FOR GEOENGINEERING

2009-07-29 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
of the reserve as recoverable by conventional means. Horizontal directed drilling can likely increase that. Maybe someone knows an oil industry expert who could say by how much and what cost. Peter - Original Message - From: Veli Albert Kallio To: Geoengineering FIPC ; Indianice FIPC Sent

[geo] Re: [clim] Yet another positive feedback - geoengineering impacts

2009-07-31 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Dear Andrew, My suggestion is that we pick up one delivery and crash it into the rocks as see the after effects. There are plenty of oil tanker crashes that produce immense oil slicks, so there is a ready area of study. But who really wants an oil slick on the sea? I suppose every oil

[geo] Re: more on Arpa-E rejection letters

2009-08-02 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Coming from energy financing background, Gene's opinion is not well informed to the perspectives of fund managers, lenders and investors who strike for cautious investments and lending. As the recession drags on, all the technology based things and novelty products are off the radar and the

[geo] Stop Using Vladimir Cousteau

2009-08-03 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi, I understand that we all have enemies Finns have Swedish, British have French, Arabs have Israel, Americans have Russians... But Vladimir Putin and Jacques Yves Cousteau are respected at least by their own people. Also, more so as I am doing film project with Philippe Cousteau and

[geo] Re: Today's London Times: Latham-Salter Cloud Brightening Copenhagen study on Climate Response

2009-08-08 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
...@adratz.org); barakasi...@yahoo.com; Saddock Butokes (butok...@yahoo.com); Veli Albert Kallio (albert_kal...@hotmail.com) Cc: w_win...@yahoo.com Dear Veli I will find out and keep you posted. Regards, Dr. Rutasha, Fulgence Dadi United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Sea View, Plot 11, Ocean

[geo] Re: Where is that geoengineering?

2009-08-09 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi, Brief notes. I also think that small projects do very much make sense. I think that the balloon projects as well as some of the oceanic islands that have very tall mountains can be used for releasing cloud seeding or cooling chemicals (aerosols), and lay down a pipe to pump out SO2

RE: [fipc] Re: [geo] Re: Today's London Times: Latham-Salter Cloud Brightening Copenhagen study on Climate Response

2009-08-12 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
company and not Atmosmare –foundation. Things get mixed up so easily. But anyway I wish we will be able to proceed with this and other projects. Yours, Esko 2009/8/8 Veli Albert Kallio albert_kal...@hotmail.com First of all, congratulations to you Stephen and John getting this excellent

[geo] The Reality Behind the Chevy Volt's 230 MPG

2009-08-14 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
geoengineering solutions to the energy and climate crisis that is grabbing as being attempted to be addressed by various strategies. With kind regards, Veli Albert Kallio, FRGS The Reality Behind the Chevy Volt's 230 MPG‏ Energy and Capital (eac-elet...@angelnexus.com

[geo] Orbiting solar power station and other bulk shipments off stuff ...

2009-08-17 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
I just got contacted solar power satellite operator that will microwave down beam the energy to receiving station where it is converted back to electricity. The launch is within year 2010 and can use mobile receptor stations to transmit electricity of disaster zones. I will post later

[geo] Alvin's Lake Agassiz Comet not Appealing Idea to the First Nations

2009-08-20 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
The First Nations do not recall any extraterrestrial projectile being involved in the collapse of Lake Agassiz, this lake bursted its banks due to overflow problems and the permafrost ice melting away within its moraine banks that had held back the water. The lake had - on several previous

[geo] Lake Agassiz Comet is not Appealing Idea to the First Nations

2009-08-20 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Albert Kallio To: John Nissen ; euggor...@comcast.net Cc: pre...@attglobal.net ; agask...@nc.rr.com ; John Davies ; gorm...@waitrose.com ; Geoengineering FIPC Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 8:36 AM Subject: Alvin's Lake Agassiz Comet not Appealing Idea to the First Nations The First Nations do

[geo] FW: One phone call = 1,000 emails

2009-09-17 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi All, I agree this assesment by one sky: When lobbying for geoengineering, e-mails are just but worthless and instant response and reaction is guaranteed by a call rather than email. If you have two choices, always go by default for telephone call. (Even better for face-to-face

[geo] Re: Colloquium report: hazards from global warming

2009-09-18 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
I think that Alan's position is right in a stable Holocene setting but in the cycles of the ice age when large volcanic discharges occurred this might not have been the case. A good picture of the frequency and fluctuation in geothermal output is from the Pacific Ocean where its human

[geo] Re: Colloquium report: hazards from global warming

2009-09-19 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Albert Kallio wrote: I think that Alan's position is right in a stable Holocene setting but in the cycles of the ice age when large volcanic discharges occurred this might not have been the case. A good picture of the frequency and fluctuation in geothermal output is from the Pacific

[geo] Merciless Figures for the Arctic Sea Ice

2009-09-29 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
not to despair, but get our hands on and be prepared to put up fight. I am not gonna give up for the sinking ship if the Met Office figures are correct. I have reproduced the text exhaustively and with the original web link to Met Office. With kind regards, Veli Albert Kallio, FRGS Frozen

[geo] Robeson Channel Suitable for Suspension Cabling to Block Prevent Southward Ice Movement

2009-10-01 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Dear All, Please find enclosed a brief satellite animation on the Robeson Channel from this summer which suggest that use of bridge-style suspension cabling could hold ice in place and prevent it moving into the warm waters further along the channel between Ellesmere Island and Greenland.

[geo] The Robeson Channel Suitable for Suspension Cabling to Prevent ice Escape?

2009-10-01 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Dear All, The Robeson Channel Suitable for Suspension Cabling to Prevent ice Escape? Please find enclosed a brief satellite animation on the Robeson Channel from this summer which suggest that use of bridge-style suspension cabling could hold ice in place and prevent it moving into the warm

[geo] Robeson Channel Suitable for Suspension Cabling to Block Prevent Southward Ice Movement

2009-10-02 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
rapidly? Mike On 10/1/09 9:25 AM, Veli Albert Kallio albert_kal...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear All, Please find enclosed a brief satellite animation on the Robeson Channel from this summer which suggest that use of bridge-style suspension cabling could hold ice in place and prevent it moving

[geo] Re: Robeson Channel -- lessons for all on ice dynamics (and a good fist-fight at the UN for the future!)

2009-10-04 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
we put a cable around these? Simply, not possible. Kind regards, With kind regards, Veli Albert Kallio, FRGS HH Plenipotentiary Scientific Ambassador, Global Environmental Parliamentary Group United Nations' General Assembly complaint UNGA 101292 complaint handler for the the First

[geo] Copenhagen Approaches: Albert's Hockey Stick of Climate Science Errors Emerges out of IPCC

2009-10-05 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
There is only November left separating us from Copenhagen. The sudden last minute surge of errors in climate change studies on the advent of Copenhagen is almost like opening a Christmas calendar and finding a new present hidden behind each peel away door of IPCC. I could have bet a year

[geo] Further Points of Consideration: The other inconvenient truth; Another Inconvenient Truth

2009-10-07 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
2. The other inconvenient truth; Another Inconvenient Truth Posted by: Jim Roland quailreco...@hotmail.com jimroland99 Tue Oct 6, 2009 1:57 pm (PDT) 1. http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2196 [This article also published by The Guardian,

[geo] Re: Taming the methane monster

2009-10-13 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi Dan, Although it would be ideal to keep permafrost as a permafrost, this may not work. In that case, I would suggest planting a forest cover would be the best option as forests themselves mop up carbon dioxide efficiently. I have seen the forests in Finland becoming very lush, trees

[geo] Re: I am Planning A New Geoengineering Foundation

2009-10-13 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
is greater than the sum of its parts, makes this idea even greater. With kind regards, Yours sincerely, Veli Albert Kallio, FRGS HH Plenipotentiary Scientific Ambassador of Global Environmental Parliament Group International Guru Nanak Peace Prize Nominee for 2008 (for sea level

[geo] Re: I am Planning A New Geoengineering Foundation

2009-10-13 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Please do not make references! I am a man of low profile and avoid publicity! My closest to these circles would be my Scanning Tunnelling Microscope Weber Bar Graviton Resonance Particle Detector which I submitted as a proposal to youth electronics planning competition and I became

[geo] Re: Arctic ice free in 10yrs?

2009-10-21 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
/8307272.stm [3] http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2008/permafrost.jsp but see also: [4] Continental climate in East Siberia. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.07.004 [5] http://researchpages.net/ESMG/people/tim-lenton/tipping-points/ --- Veli Albert Kallio wrote: David's point is very

[geo] RE: [clim] Re: Sea ice: beware of hype, uncertainty cut's both ways

2009-11-02 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Further to Mike, I would like to draw also attention to terrestrial snow cover. Snow has increased due to less ice covered Arctic Ocean during the summers and autumn. This insulates air more from the ground. On the other hand, the amount of ground heat has increased as the soil beneath

[geo] UK PARLIAMENT CLIMATE EMERGENCY (EDM MOTION 2057)

2009-11-03 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Getting a good political environment for geoengineering once things get hold ... Early Day Motion EDM 2057 CLIMATE CHANGE (No. 2) 15.10.2009 Challen, Colin That this House recognises that there is a climate emergency and that the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate

[geo] UK PARLIAMENT CLIMATE EMERGENCY (EDM MOTION 2057)

2009-11-03 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Web Link: http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=39285SESSION=899 Getting a good political environment for geoengineering once things get hold ... Early Day Motion EDM 2057 CLIMATE CHANGE (No. 2) 15.10.2009 Challen, Colin That this House recognises that there is

RE: [geo] Greenland ice sheet - tipping in progress

2009-11-18 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
I am pretty sure the term is already included in models, and I don’t know of any reason to think that it is increasing—certainly not in comparison to the increased heat from the surface due to warming and the meltwater that in flowing down into the ice sheet is carrying heat (i.e.,

RE: [geo] Geoengineers - it's showtime!

2009-11-18 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi David, I think you may have overlooked on this. The temperature had followed the CO2 trend definitely since the industrial revolution. The issue this paper is not about denying the accumulative effect of rising p.p.m. which Charles Keeling's work has well established since 1950's.

[geo] SCIENCE MAGAZINE SUPPORTS THE FINNISH NATIONAL EPIC KALEVALA

2009-11-20 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Seldom surprises come that big... especially when reading Sciene or Finnish epic Kalevala: The 150th anniversary edition of Finnish National Epic Kalevala with a commentary dedicates a whole chapter to the events about sudden changes in the Earth's turning axis in the ancient distant past

RE: [geo] Geoengineers - it's showtime!

2009-11-20 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
governments, companies, and people to go green is too late. Save the airfare to Copenhagen. Why are all of you having so much trouble to say it? The only solutions that can work are based on geoengineering. -gene From: Veli Albert Kallio [mailto:albert_kal...@hotmail.com] Sent

[geo] Seas Grow Less Effective at Absorbing Emissions

2009-11-20 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
(This NYT item via the UN seems to contradict something recently circulated in our group.) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/science/earth/19oceans.html?_r=1 Seas Grow Less Effective at Absorbing Emissions By SINDYA N. BHANOO Published: November 18, 2009 The Earth’s

[geo] BBC: East Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting Worries Scientists

2009-11-23 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
ANTARCTIC APOCALYPSE ON THE MAKING? ”Enten, tenten, telika menten, olle, dulle, doff, kinke lade koff”… Enten, tenten, telika menten, pirum parum puff! It almost comes like from the Hogwarth School of Wizardry that the 2012 visionaries predict the Antarctic ice demise in some magic

RE: [geo] scale, scope, emphasis, and structure of research programs (or program)

2009-11-24 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi Ken, I suggest couple further points as the list is perhaps too much of engineer perspective and therefore missing out some vital human points (which can make or kill political support): A.3. Approaches that prevent positive GHG feedbacks (if there is risk or when they occur)

[geo] USA Agrees Emission Cuts of Only 3-4% by 2020

2009-11-25 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi All, I just noticed that USA has just announced 3-4% emission cuts by 2020 which is a way too low to address any of the issues for the practical purposes. 3-4% cut refers to the baseline which is comparable to one used by the European Union where the baseline year is 1990. The USA

RE: [geo] scale, scope, structure

2009-11-25 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi Diana, The geoengineering debate is largely forced upon us for the human unwillingess to cut emissions. Had you followed tonight's announcement the United States are not prepared to reduce their emissions more than 3-4% from 1990 levels, they present the matter using figures just couple

RE: [geo] Re: H2 in the atmosphere

2009-12-07 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
I recall this too. But then I read that hydroxyl OH- has a positive effect on the ozone. Is there any way to send a generators of hydroxyl, some sort of catalysator that would turn up that and help to create ozone which is said to be higher in the presence of OH- ions. From:

[geo] GEOENGINEERING EXPERIMENTS BY UK AIR FORCE CREATE CLOUDS ABOVE BRITAIN

2010-01-09 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
The British Army created a circular holding pattern to create an immense artificial coil in the sky made of the military aeroplane's contrail. This was then easy to distinguish and track by satellites to see undisputed, how aeroplane emissions can be made to turn clear skies to artificial

[geo] Handling uncertainty in science, 22-23 March

2010-01-26 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
For your diary: This conference is pertinent as one of the key argument against geoengineering is uncertainty. The filosophy goes if you do not know what you are doing, then it is probably better to do nothing. Then the issues of abrupt climate change (Type 2 climate change). If able

[geo] CLOUD SEEDING WILL WORK - AFTER ALL ITS NATURAL AT LEAST IN THE ANTARCTIC SEAS

2010-01-26 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
This arrived via the UN Wire. This article points to positive points of blowing sea salt into air once again. The increases of ozone may on the other hand have also negative effects. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/science/earth/26ozone.html?ref=world The Ozone Hole Is Mending.

[geo] COP15 follow up summit invitation

2010-02-12 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
' complaints. With kind regards, Veli Albert Kallio Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:43:09 + From: j...@cloudworld.co.uk To: john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk CC: geoengineering@googlegroups.com; climateintervent...@googlegroups.com; lat...@ucar.edu Subject: [clim] Re: [geo] Polar Sea-Ice

[geo] Global Solicitation for Alternative Schemes - Invitation to Join COP15 Follow-up Summit

2010-02-13 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
again suggest me that there are at least some parties, may be, in the military that knows the sea ice conditions is even worse. With kind regards, Veli Albert Kallio Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:22:26 -0800 Subject: [geo] Re: Global Solicitation for Alternative Schemes From: m2des

RE: [geo] Methane - time for realism

2010-03-08 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
some of them and burn nucleating methane-carbon dioxide mixtures rather than letting them GHGs to go for birds. Wint kind regards, Veli Albert Kallio Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:55:56 -0500 Subject: Re: [geo] Methane - time for realism From: mmacc...@comcast.net To: j...@cloudworld.co.uk

RE: [geo] Re: SRM geoengineering: how to deal with the losers?

2010-03-14 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi Paul, STRAND How to Deal with the Losers. I would like to reply briefly to your rhetorical question: What am I missing? First of all, I think you are absolutely right that geoengineers would be accused of causing any unpleasant weather and if there were severe weather's like some

[geo] Geoengineering Event Approved for COP15/COP16 Intermediate Climate Change Summit in Cochabamba, Bolivia

2010-03-26 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi All, RE: COP15/COP16 Intermediate Climate Change Summit in Cochabamba, Bolivia Just as an update, I glad that we have got an approval for The Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights from 20th to 22nd April 2010 in Cochabamba, Bolivia subsequent to my

[geo] Geoengineering and Role of Algae on CDR: Study at sea assesses ash impacts

2010-04-30 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
This major study is helpful in assessing geoengineering potential from the artificial algae booms as a viable CDR method: Study at sea assesses ash impacts Scientists hope to gather ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/science_and_environment/10091568.stm

RE: [geo] Hypothetical SRM Question

2010-06-01 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
If there were need to have a counteracting agent (that would not have long life span like CFC's), I would think that the carbon black could be used to trap heat. However, as an aerosol, it also acts as a condensing surface, creating cloud droplets, and if flushed to snow, darkening. The

[geo] DARK SURFACES DO GET WARMER, ENHANCING GLACIER MELT

2010-06-26 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
be washed away. 3. Good to see that the World Bank has its act together. Can't wait to hear about the other 25 winners. - Original Message - From: Veli Albert Kallio To: Geoengineering FIPC Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 3:59 Subject: [geo] THE WORLD BANK FUNDED MOUNTAIN WHITENING

RE: [geo] SEA ICE LOSS STUNS SCIENTISTS - open letter to Arctic Council

2010-07-12 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
When I was press-spokesman to Arctic Mirror of Life symposium (convened by HE Kofi Annan and HE Jose Manuel Barroso) with Robert (Bob) Correl, he was the lead author of the Arctic impact report of the Arctic Council. (J. Lubachenko was our third spokesman.) Bob Correl is extremely

RE: [geo] SEA ICE LOSS STUNS SCIENTISTS - sea ice galaxies, circles and ovals tell the story

2010-07-13 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Good observation otherwise, but the thinned ice breaks up and scatters more. If you look at satellite pictures a few years ago the sea ice was not nearly as fluid as it is today. The North Pole sea ice is predominantly arranged such a way that some of the regular geometries resulting from

RE: [geo] Arctic ice at lowest point in recent geological history

2010-07-27 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
I came across this issue of ice free Arctic Ocean in context of the Independence I Culture of Greenland and the elevated beaches of the Independence Fjord in North West Greenland. One Norwegian scientist wrote an article to the climate skeptics web site about it and claimed that the

RE: [geo] Geoengineering in Plan B

2010-10-05 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
RE: FROM PLAN B TO PLAN ZERO - THERE IS NEED TO EXPOSE THE MISINFORMATION BY ANTI-GEOENGINEERING ALARMISTS Time and again there appears references to a conspiratory individual who goes it alone to change world climate for good or bad by geoengineering. There is no ground in these

RE: [clim] RE: [geo] The problem with stratospheric SRM

2010-10-21 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Note that Gorman has proposed direct formation of silicates in commercial aircraft exhaust, following earlier suggestions of sulfur in jet fuel. Commercial aircraft don’t flight at the right height or location to efficiently deliver materials to the stratosphere. You need to be in the

RE: [clim] RE: [geo] The problem with stratospheric SRM - plane pricing

2010-10-23 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
of distributing particles at the heights required. Trivial amounts of research money are required for this but so far I cant get any. Grant proposal attached again. johngorman - Original Message - From: Veli Albert Kallio To: David Keith ; oliver.wingen...@gmail.com ; kcalde

[geo] Geoengineering Videos

2010-10-28 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Some new videos have been put on Geoengineering (mostly critical) on YouTube. To have an idea what is said about geoengineering, please have a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K9rXydMmfwfeature=player_embedded http://www.realityzone.com/whatspray.htmlwww.youtube.com

[geo] Seeding Sea Ice - New SRM Method

2010-12-08 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Dear Geoengineering Group, For over a year now I have concentrated on occasional information relays to Climateintervention rather than on the more demanding creative sides, due to my other climate-related projects. However, I think this observation is important sea ice aspect to be

[geo] Oxford Round Table Climate Change Conference: March 27 – April 1, 2011.

2011-01-11 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi All, Do you now anything about this Oxford conference on Climate change in March 2011? It looks interesting and I would be interested in presenting geoengineering perspectives on this climate change conference. Do we have any voices from our group attending on this climate forum?Please

RE: [geo] Re: Relocate the moon to Earth Sun L1

2011-02-17 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Wouldn't it make more sense to blow dust out of moonscape by using thermonuclear devices, although this is bad for satellites, it could create a rotating dust cloud to dim some of the sunlight. It would destroy astronomy, but save the Earth? Albert Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:25:51 -0800

RE: [geo] Wind and wave energies are not renewable after all

2011-04-04 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Although I am member of Environmentalists For Nuclear (EFN) I suspect that it is our nuclear sponsors and Australian uranium mining who have concocted this concern of winds running out in the aftermath of Japan nuclear disaster in order to dismiss the renewables as serious alternative. In any

RE: [geo] Another look at gunnery?

2011-04-05 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
A good starter could be a study to identify the worlds disused mine shafts to test the concept of long barrels firing shells made of supercooled sulphuric acid. The shell casing could be considerably reduced, but ultimately these shafts would have to be dug into mountains to make the benefit

RE: [geo] Another look at gunnery?

2011-04-05 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
, the carriages would be freed to follow their own trajectory upwards. As I see it, the main limitation is the g-force tolerated, which drops as a larger wheel is used. Is this just bonkers, or could it work? A On 5 April 2011 09:38, Veli Albert Kallio albert_kal...@hotmail.com wrote: I think

[geo] RE: Cooling trend in Spencer's latest figures

2011-04-09 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
to Andrew Lockley for this reference. [3] http://groups.google.com/group/climateintervention/browse_thread/thread/af331f30cdc2272f --- On 08/04/2011 17:59, Veli Albert Kallio wrote: */Hi Alastair,/* [snip] Back in 2005 I forecasted that the Arctic Ocean would become ice free

RE: [geo] Fw: Scientists should communicate: the methane time bomb

2011-04-14 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
The methane time bomb should be quantifiable as follows: When there were large scale destabilisation of depressurised and then sunlight and heat-exposed sea beds most of the 22,000 methane clathrate craters were formed onto the Russian coastal seas as methane ice took the impact from sun and

RE: [geo] Speaking of losing the Arctic...

2011-04-18 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
I agree fully with Gene's point. I think that geoengineering must stick just to one very simple point until research attracts adequate capital funding for developing more elaborate systems. The layman just get confused when too many options are placed for them. (In the end geoengineering will

[geo] RE: Arctic methane

2011-05-09 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Hi John, Nitrous Oxide (N2O) is another Greenhouse gas melting permafrost releases besides methane and carbon dioxide which is often forgotten and there are substantial amounts of that as well. So, it should appear as a point 6. although it is not carbon, but its still biomass related.

RE: [geo] Lecture on Methane Hydrates by Dr. Mariam Kastner

2011-05-10 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
This technique would require a wave/solar powered buoy feeding a microbubble stream(s) down the anchoring line to the appropriate depth. This type of buoy could also function as a monitoring station reporting multiple sounding via sat. link. There is even much better systems such as Mixox,

RE: [geo] Arctic Council meeting on Thursday - the truth is out

2011-05-13 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
away in most cases, but when supply of other nutritiens falls back methane accummulates after microbial digestion to carbon dioxide phases out. I hope this clarifies what happens to the methane and carbon dioxide as arctic reservoirs start leaking it. Yours sincerely, Veli Albert Kallio

RE: [geo] Methane 'emergency stop button'

2011-05-18 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
I think we have already passed the tipping point. The terrestrial snow cover has become very volatile both in Russia and North America. This is already resulting in record floods in the Missisippi basin and large and very early forest fires in Great Slave Lake area in Canada. On Russia,

[geo] Brazilian Geoengineering Project

2011-05-19 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Brazil appoints crisis cabinet after 600% increase in 2010 in the cutting of Brazilian rain forests cover is reported. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13449792 19 May 2011 Last updated at 09:25 Share this page Brazil: Amazon rainforest deforestation rises sharply

RE: [geo] HOME/ETC Group Targets IPCC

2011-06-22 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
I oppose vehemently the statement: Developed countries don't want to pay up (especially since many developing countries have corrupt regimes) This has holier-than-thou attitude and is only to harden polarisation and opposition of GE in developing world. After all, what is the definition of

RE: [geo] Cost of Air Capture and the APS report

2011-06-23 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
The fast growing arctic willow could be harvested and reburied by dumping the biomass onto lakes or sea. The soil in the Arctic is thick and the dried wood could also float to the sea if loaded onto the rivers (it sinks later to the seafloor). There are number of fast growing trees and bushes

[geo] Paris Air Show: Cryosat North Pole Marine Ice Cap Measurement

2011-06-23 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Revealed Now at Paris Air Show: Cryosat's North Pole Marine Ice Cap Measurement: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13829785 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups geoengineering group. To post to

RE: [geo] September sea-ice gone by end of century? (or much sooner)

2011-07-19 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
I would just ask people to draw attention to sea ice volume models. In addition to look at i.e. Cryosphere Today how the terrestrial defrost progressed this year, and check out temperature legend maps for North Canada and Siberia. How many natural processes behave the same way on their very

RE: [geo] Jim Hansen : 1 to 2DegC and 20m sea level rise

2011-07-24 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Have you been wondering, why the North Pole's sea ice is looking like this today? http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/NEWIMAGES/arctic.seaice.color.000.png Cryosphere Today has reported a phenomenal North Pole melting: North Pole's Ice Cap currently melts away at a phenomenal weekly rate

[geo] ARCTIC OCEAN MELTS NOW 20% EACH 10 DAYS, RUSSIA'S NORTH-EAST PASSAGE OPENS FOR SHIPPING‏

2011-07-29 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
The North East Passage has opened in North of Siberia again for shipping traffick: http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_daily_extent_hires.png Overall, the North Pole's sea ice appears like this today:

[geo] NORTH POLE ICE CAP MELT-AWAY BREAKS ALL TIME RECORDS

2011-08-26 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
NORTH POLE ICE CAP MELT-AWAY BREAKS ALL TIME RECORDS (Friday, 25.8.2011 14:00:00 GMT) 10 minutes ago came out the latest satellite readings showing the North Pole Ice Cap melt away has now reached ALL-TIME RECORD by 4,000 km2: 2,988,000 km2.

[geo] Arctic Ocean Ice Cover Loss Continues Unabatd

2011-08-26 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
Decreasing North Pole ice cover is now second only to the year 2007; there is a month of melting to go: Sea ice area (Cryosphere Today): 1st: 2007: 2,992,000 km2 2nd: 2011: 3,065,000 km2 (~2-4 weeks to go) 3rd: 2010: 3,072,000 km2 (There will not be complete melt away this summer, the rate

[geo] GEOENGINEERING IMPLICATIONS: Adapting to Climate Change - Issue 19

2011-09-01 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
I have recenly been occupied many non-geoengineering aspects of climate change, but today I received email from UK Met Office which is good news for SRM geoengineers. There are clear geoengineering potential arising from the latest research that the surface ocean warming has been halted by

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