Re: [geo] Re: Japanese Government starts funding geoengineering research this spring with US 19 million dollars

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Hayes
Hello Hiroshi, Masa and All, Thank you for this important information. The Heisei Environment Research Fund's 24 year RD Challenge seems to be the first non-IPCC co-ordinated Meta Study effort which, as mentioned; 1) recognizes the possibility of an Arctic tipping point and; 2) provides the

[geo] Re: Japanese Government starts funding geoengineering research this spring with US 19 million dollars

2012-02-15 Thread Masa Sugiyama
Just to follow up, the funding has not been finalized yet. The overaching project on climate risk (including mitigation, tipping elements, impact analysis etc.) is very likely to launch this spring, but the sub-projects are subject to change, in my understanding. And it is not clear how much of