Re: [geo] My CNN geoengineering question to Sen. Cory Booker

2019-09-06 Thread Olivier Boucher
Alan I now decline such invitations because I consider them to be a trap. A symmetric one-to-one or four-to-four debate with skeptics does not work in the eyes of the public. It becomes a rhetoric thing. The public gets out that the scientists disagree, which is the primary objective of the

Re: [geo] There is no Plan B for dealing with the climate crisis: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Vol 75, No 5

2019-09-06 Thread Andrew Lockley
That's classic moral hazard On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, 09:38 Stephen Salter, wrote: > Hi All > > Let us agree that 'there is simply no substitute for decarbonisation'. > > But doing it will be difficult and slow. > > Geoengineering will give more time and so make it slightly less difficult. > >

[geo] Fwd: Job Opportunity - SCoPEx Advisory Committee Executive Coordinator

2019-09-06 Thread Andrew Lockley
-- Forwarded message - From: Frank Keutsch Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019, 18:29 Subject: Job Opportunity - SCoPEx Advisory Committee Executive Coordinator To: Harvard is hiring a full-time Executive Coordinator to support the work of the SCoPEx Advisory Committee. View this email in

[geo] SRMGI - correcting a mistake by Ray Pierrehumbert

2019-09-06 Thread Andy Parker
Hi folks, I’m writing to correct an error made by Ray Pierrehumbert in a recent opinion piece on SRM, which has only just come to my attention. In an article published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Ray wrote: “*it is apparent that over time, the Environmental Defense Fund is

Re: [geo] My CNN geoengineering question to Sen. Cory Booker

2019-09-06 Thread Klaus Lackner
You can’t convince people who are already convinced. This email offers you an opportunity to change someone’s mind. Klaus From: on behalf of Andrew Revkin Reply-To: Andrew Revkin Date: Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 5:45 PM To: Alan Robock Cc: Geoengineering Subject: Re: [geo] My CNN

Re: [geo] My CNN geoengineering question to Sen. Cory Booker

2019-09-06 Thread Hawkins, David
The audience is not the people in the room. The audience is the people who will receive the spin about the meeting and Heartland, not you, will control that activity. From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com on behalf of Klaus Lackner Sent: Friday, September 6,

Re: [geo] My CNN geoengineering question to Sen. Cory Booker

2019-09-06 Thread Gernot Wagner
Indeed. The very fact that they are staging a "debate" -- and e.g. pretend its somehow linked to UN climate week -- is bad news all around. For what it's worth, they've been making the rounds among climate scientists/economists, (fortunately) only getting rejections, as far as I can tell. One

Re: [geo] My CNN geoengineering question to Sen. Cory Booker

2019-09-06 Thread Alan Robock
Yes, I already told them no. I just thought others would find this request interesting. Alan On 9/6/2019 2:23 PM, Gernot Wagner wrote: Indeed. The very fact that they are staging a "debate" -- and e.g. pretend its somehow linked to UN climate week -- is bad news all around. For what it's

[geo] Re: Green New Deal For Europe and Geoengineering

2019-09-06 Thread p.j.irvine
Hi Gideon, I'd be interested in helping out here. Pete On Monday, 2 September 2019 04:42:53 UTC-4, Gideon Futerman wrote: > > Today Green New deal for Europe released their draft report for public > consultation, where they speak extensively in Appendix A about > geoengineering, both CDR and

[geo] HUMOR & GEOENGINEERING

2019-09-06 Thread Andrew Lockley
https://geoengineering.environment.harvard.edu/event/humor-geoengineering HUMOR & GEOENGINEERING Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm Location: Harvard University Center for the Environment, 26 Oxford Street, Room 429 "Humor & Geoengineering" Humor, like geoengineering, is about

Re: [geo] HUMOR & GEOENGINEERING

2019-09-06 Thread Greg Rau
Bob Mankoff, ex cartoon editor of The New Yorker?! Anyway, I think we all could use some humor right about now. Greg Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 6, 2019, at 11:24 AM, Andrew Lockley wrote: > > > https://geoengineering.environment.harvard.edu/event/humor-geoengineering > > HUMOR &

[geo] Technology Review article, including geoengineering

2019-09-06 Thread Alan Robock
“Four tech takeaways from the climate town hall,” by James Temple, https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614274/four-tech-takeaways-from-the-climate-townhall/ Geoengineering’s public moment Yang would also earmark $800 million for research into geoengineering—the idea of cooling the planet by

[geo] Fwd: Join us for the Climate Restoration Forum

2019-09-06 Thread Andrew Lockley
-- Forwarded message - From: Erica Dodds Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019, 13:29 Subject: Join us for the Climate Restoration Forum To: Andrew September 17 at the UN Headquarters in NYC Now announcing FEATURED SPEAKERS for the Global Climate Restoration Forum See Featured Speakers and