Re: [geo] Re: [CDR] Tiresome nomenclature squabbles

2023-02-03 Thread 'Francis Micheal Ludlow' via geoengineering
Dear Ken, I appreciate the time taken to set out your perspective here, and I do appreciate that there are meaningful differences between CDR and SRM, which are important to set out. But at the same time some of the distinctions you are making here come across as special pleading for the purposes

Re: [geo] Re: Tiresome nomenclature squabbles

2023-02-01 Thread 'Francis Micheal Ludlow' via geoengineering
Dear Pol, I share your views here, but would note that for many the issue of intent is important - removing CO2 intentionally seems meaningfully different (and more akin to an act of "engineering") than inadvertently (even if now knowingly) affecting change by releasing the CO2. All best wishes,

Re: [geo] What scares you most about SRM?

2020-04-26 Thread Francis Micheal Ludlow
Dear Douglas, and All, Thank you for the ongoing discussion, which is always very informative. May I just ask in relation to the statement below, whether there has been any modelling yet done on scenarios in which one or more massive eruptions quickly inject large volumes of SO2 into the stratosp

Re: [geo] Here's a published article demanding "humanity must: (1) Abruptly halt tropospheric particulate geoengineering"

2019-08-30 Thread Francis Micheal Ludlow
I find it useful to keep track of such papers, including for teaching purposes in highlighting potentially misleading / biased / agenda-driven research. Francis On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 at 20:03, Ronal Larson wrote: > Alan: > > The ones I was referring to are in your “refereed” (as opposed to > refe

Re: [geo] Fwd: Geoengineering and Capitalism

2018-02-02 Thread Francis Micheal Ludlow
Dear All, Thank you for this interesting and important discussion. A related query: I have been searching the literature for any information on what industries are likely to be involved in producing the chemical species needed to enact any potential SAI geoengineering. Pointers in this direction