Re: [geo] Climate Engineering Conference 2014

2013-10-25 Thread O Morton
Dear Ron Your expertise would obviously be valuable. I strongly suggest that you offer to organise one or more sessions. It may be that the advisory board (which I'm on) could do with more CDR expertise, and I see no reason why, in principle, more could not be added. I'll raise the question wit

Re: [geo] Climate Engineering Conference 2014

2013-10-23 Thread Ronal W. Larson
Ben and ccs Thanks for the full response. I do hope you can bring the CDR folk in, as there are few opportunities for hearing what is happening in CDR compared to what is happening (or not) in SRM. My concern is that no-one I recognize with expertise on biochar is in the long list of likel

Re: [geo] Climate Engineering Conference 2014

2013-10-23 Thread Ben Kravitz
Hi Ron - I think I understand your question, but please let me know if I've misunderstood or misrepresented your points. Also, please keep in mind that although I'm a member of the steering committee of this conference, I'm not writing on behalf of anyone other than myself. I've tried to say

Re: [geo] Climate Engineering Conference 2014

2013-10-23 Thread Ronal W. Larson
Ben, Andrew and list: I see so little on CDR/GRR that I couldn't in good conscience recommend friends from the biochar community to submit anything. I include the membership lists in the various organizing and advisory panels, where you have many (maybe all) well known names - a few on ocea

Re: [geo] Climate Engineering Conference 2014

2013-10-23 Thread Ben Kravitz
Hi Andrew - That's entirely up to you and the rest of the people on this list. If you feel the list is a good place to coordinate ideas, discuss session proposals, and divide up responsibilities, that's great. If you would prefer to keep your ideas private and propose them individually, that'

Re: [geo] Climate Engineering Conference 2014

2013-10-23 Thread Andrew Lockley
Do you want the suggestions shared on the list? I suggest the following sessions : Non CO2 GGR Engineering and testing of delivery technology Governance/deployment modelling, games, etc. Deployment details - flight paths, security, monitoring , etc. Unconventional SRM particulates Cirrus stripping

[geo] Climate Engineering Conference 2014

2013-10-23 Thread Ben Kravitz
Hi everyone - It is my pleasure to announce the Climate Engineering Conference 2014: Critical Global Discussions (CEC14), to be held in August of next year in Berlin. The official conference website - http://www.ce-conference.org - contains much more detailed information about the purpose of