Re: [geo] Chill factor at 'cia' weather query | Daily Mail Online and BBC interview

2015-02-15 Thread Adrian Tuck
as 1958, atmospheric motions and turbulence would rapidly degrade any hole made by weapon bursts. Adrian Tuck 'ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective'. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-923653-4. http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=978

Re: [geo] Chill factor at 'cia' weather query | Daily Mail Online and BBC interview

2015-02-16 Thread Adrian Tuck
Oliver, The reference is: S Chapman, 1934, The gases of the atmosphere, Q J R Meteorol Soc, 60, 127-142. Adrian Tuck 'ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective'. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-923653-4. http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=978

Re: [geo] Geoengineering is no place for corporate profit making. Hamilton. Guardian.

2015-02-20 Thread Adrian Tuck
economically, but surely there’s more to the sea change than just that. What, though? The evidence for man made warming via fossil fuels is as clear as the ozone loss was in the period 1987 onwards, so it’s not the scientific uncertainty. Adrian Tuck 'ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE: A Molecular Dyn

[geo] Surface T variability in models

2015-05-18 Thread Adrian Tuck
Here’s an open access paper that casts light on the institutional dependence and regional dependence of surface temperature variability in the CMIP5 climate models. http://www.tellusa.net/index.php/tellusa/article/view/23880 Adrian Tuck 'ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE: A Molecular Dyn

Re: [geo] Armand Neukermans and Ken Caldeira speaking at Cafe Scientifique Silicon Valley (YouTube)

2015-05-29 Thread Adrian Tuck
the same applies to the NH. Adrian Tuck 'ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective'. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-923653-4. http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199236534 *** On 30 May 2015, at 00:

Re: [geo] On why we'll very likely need climate engineering

2015-06-11 Thread Adrian Tuck
roll along just fine without us or with our possibly chastened survivors for another 4.5 billion years, until it’s fried to a crisp as the sun becomes a red giant. Adrian Tuck 'ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective'. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-1

Re: [geo] space elevator

2015-08-18 Thread Adrian Tuck
? Even an F-15 can’t out climb that except by very special zoom and climb manoeuvres. Adrian Tuck 'ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective'. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-923653-4. http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=978

Re: [geo] Re: (must read) Geoengineering as a design problem

2015-09-10 Thread Adrian Tuck
beneath. How does this relate to the often-repeated claims that Greenland ice melting slowed after Mt. Pinatubo? I don’t know, but see above. My opinion is that direct radiative effects from PSCs in the Arctic polar vortex are unlikely to be large enough. Adrian Tuck 'ATMOSPHERIC TURBULEN

Re: [geo] The Antarctic ozone depletion caused by Erebus volcano gas emissions

2015-10-13 Thread Adrian Tuck
ther references that provide direct observational evidence of low nitrous oxide, methane and CFC mixing ratios inside the vortex, and that aerosols entered the vortex at high altitudes from mid latitudes - the 1995 QJRMS reference - with none from lower down? Adrian Tuck 'ATMOSPHERIC TURB

[geo] Climate Closure

2015-12-04 Thread Adrian Tuck
I recommend this issue of EOS, for the article on pages 8-9:- https://eos.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/12.1_magazine.pdf?6874e7 Adrian Tuck 'ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective'. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-923653-4. http://www.oup.com/uk/cat

[geo] Nature Geoscience paper

2016-01-27 Thread Adrian Tuck
This may be of interest. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2016/012516-rapid-affordable-energy-transformation-possible.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, sen

Re: [geo] BBC News: MoD to buy high-flying solar planes

2016-02-02 Thread Adrian Tuck
initially, and it takes military scale budgets to deal with it, at least so far. It will be interesting to see how Google, Facebook and other internet corporations react, but they are interested in compact electronic equipment rather than mass-to-altitude. Adrian Tuck a.t...@imperial.ac.uk https

[geo] Sun & Volcanoes

2016-03-08 Thread Adrian Tuck
Here’s a new perspective on modelling the effects of solar radiation and volcanoes:- Earth Syst. Dynam., 7, 1–18, 2016 www.earth-syst-dynam.net/7/1/2016/ doi:10.5194/esd-7-1-2016 Adrian Tuck a.t...@imperial.ac.uk https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atmospheric-turbulence-9780199236534?cc=gb

Re: [geo] Sun & Volcanoes

2016-03-11 Thread Adrian Tuck
s.edu/~robock > ☮ http://twitter.com/AlanRobock > Watch my 18 min TEDx talk at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsrEk1oZ-54 > > On 3/9/2016 2:18 AM, Adrian Tuck wrote: >> Here’s a new perspective on modelling the effects of solar radiation and >> volcanoes:- >> Earth Syst

[geo] Aerosol chemistry

2016-03-12 Thread Adrian Tuck
This paper seems relevant. Adrian Tuck a.t...@imperial.ac.uk https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atmospheric-turbulence-9780199236534?cc=gb&lang=en&; Sulfur Dioxide Accelerates the Heterogeneous Oxidation Rate of Organic Aerosol by Hydroxyl Radicals Nicole K. Richards-Henderson,

Re: [geo] Socratic Dialogue on Direct Air Capture — The Center for Carbon Removal

2016-03-19 Thread Adrian Tuck
Socrates he say “Entropy budget must accompany energy budget as well as dollar budget”. Necessary for realism. On 16 Mar 2016, at 12:24, Andrew Lockley wrote: > http://www.centerforcarbonremoval.org/blog/2016/3/6/socratic-dialogue-on-direct-air-capture?utm_content=buffere1904&utm_medium=social&

Re: [geo] must read: geoengineering aircraft design

2016-08-23 Thread Adrian Tuck
Long on engineering and logistics, very short on science. That’s a potentially dangerous combination. Chapter 11 for example, Risks, has exhaustive detail on engineering, but zero on any scientific risks, which are multiple. It won’t do. Adrian Tuck a.t...@imperial.ac.uk https://global.oup.com

Re: [geo] Re: The cost of stratospheric climate engineering revisited | SpringerLink

2016-10-05 Thread Adrian Tuck
, particularly as regards the amount of drying it imposes on air entering the stratosphere. While many expected the tropical tropopause to be elevated by more vigorous convection from warmer underlying surfaces, the atmosphere in its wisdom may have done something different. Adrian Adrian Tuck

Re: [geo] Saving the World the Hard Way: $104-570T, J. Hansen et al.

2016-10-06 Thread Adrian Tuck
More power to Jim’s arm. He has probably discovered the hard way that for a scientist, publishing in a journal is much less expensive than going through the legal system. I beg to differ that policy drove people like Rutherford, Bohr, Einstein, Born, Heisenberg, Chadwick et al to pursue high ene

Fwd: [geo] Climate Change Policy and The Super-Hero Syndrome: Boyd

2017-01-04 Thread Adrian Tuck
Begin forwarded message: > From: Adrian Tuck > Subject: Re: [geo] Climate Change Policy and The Super-Hero Syndrome: Boyd > Date: 4 January 2017 10:12:00 GMT > To: andrew.lock...@gmail.com > > Ah yes, the UN channels Michael Gove. I recommend the article in EOS, the AGU &

Re: [geo] Re: Social Cost of Carbon - new NAS report (on methodology - not values of)

2017-03-04 Thread Adrian Tuck
That’ll come as a very small consolation to NOAA, see the link below. They’re politicians, look at what they do, not what they say. https://wpo.st/nM3f2 On 4 Mar 2017, at 18:27, Michael MacCracken wrote: > On the Chairman's statement about likely effects, these are the claims of > those suing E

Re: [geo] US scientists launch world's biggest solar geoengineering study

2017-03-25 Thread Adrian Tuck
The idea that we know enough by way of predictability to embark on this, when models predict macro weather rather than climate, is inadvisable, to put it mildly. On 25 Mar 2017, at 05:10, Shinichiro ASAYAMA wrote: > Dear all, > > In association with this new Harvard solar geoengineering resea

Re: [geo] Trump presidency 'opens door' to planet-hacking geoengineer experiments

2017-03-29 Thread Adrian Tuck
Does geoengineering really want to be associated with Trump? It fulfils the fears that many atmospheric scientists had in the wake of Crutzen’s paper, that a climate denying politician would seize on it as a substitute for reducing fossil fuel burning. The laws of nature cannot be repealed, unli

[geo] Stratospheric aerosol

2017-05-11 Thread Adrian Tuck
This paper seems relevant: Radiative forcing from anthropogenic sulfur and organic emissions reaching the stratosphere By:Yu, PF (Yu, Pengfei)[ 1,2 ] ; Murphy, DM (Murphy, Daniel M.)[ 1 ] ; Portmann, RW (Portmann, Robert W.)[ 1 ] ; Toon, OB (Toon, Owen B.)[ 3,4 ] ; Froyd, KD (Froyd, Karl D.)[ 1,

Re: [geo] BBC News: Deep fat fryers may help form cooling clouds

2017-11-24 Thread Adrian Tuck
This is unlikely but possible in real atmospheric aerosols. Formation as a surface film has been observed experimentally over a decade ago, see below; there is lab and theory evidence that lenses of fatty acid may form. Explore this journal > Previous article in issue: Vertical distribution of

Re: [geo] We can now harvest electricity from Earth's heat using quantum tunnelling

2018-02-09 Thread Adrian Tuck
, the biosphere and human activity. ‘Harvesting’ that might be thermodynamically counter productive. Adrian Tuck a.t...@imperial.ac.uk https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atmospheric-turbulence-9780199236534?cc=gb&lang=en&; On 8 Feb 2018, at 17:37, Greg Rau wrote: &g

Re: [geo] We can now harvest electricity from Earth's heat using quantum tunnelling

2018-02-11 Thread Adrian Tuck
Try this: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpca.7b03112?ref=jpcafhVI-vaida-articles It’s open access. The problem is in defining the system, with the further difficulty that you cannot apply equilibrium thermodynamics to the the planet and its spatial environment. Adrian On 12 Feb 2018,

Fwd: [geo] Experiment idea

2020-11-02 Thread Adrian Tuck
As requested by Andrew. > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Andrew Lockley > Subject: Re: [geo] Experiment idea > Date: 2 November 2020 at 16:59:57 GMT-7 > To: Adrian Tuck > > Thanks. Can you repost to the list? > > Andrew > > On Mon, 2 Nov 2020, 23:

Re: [geo] Reduction of the future Greenland ice sheet surface melt with the help of solar geoengineering

2020-12-06 Thread Adrian Tuck
Check “sunny greenland” + Richard S Scorer. > On 6 Dec 2020, at 07:43, SALTER Stephen wrote: > > Hi All > > The highest estimate for Greenland ice sheet loss is 325 billion tonnes a > year. > > If I multiply this by the latent heat of fusion of ice and divide by the area > of Greenland 2.

Re: [geo] Amine cloud brightening

2013-10-17 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
Not a new idea. Also, the reality is that cloud formation in the atmosphere will always involve a chemically complex mixture: Murphy, Thomson & Mahoney, Science, 282, 1664-1669 (1998) detected 46 different elements with a single particle technique (Particle Analysis by Laser Mass Spectrometry) in a

Fwd: [geo] Sulphur injection regime - request for comments

2013-11-14 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
At the suggestion of Andrew Lockley, I am forwarding this to the whole group. -- Forwarded message -- From: Dr. Adrian Tuck Date: 14 November 2013 05:58 Subject: Re: [geo] Sulphur injection regime - request for comments To: Andrew Lockley Cc: James Donaldson , Matt Hitchman <

Re: [geo] Can we modify stratospheric water vapor by deliberate cloud seeding? Chen, JGR Atmospheres, Wiley

2014-02-18 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
It would be a mistake to believe that model calculations can offer reliable simulations of the factors affecting the stratospheric water vapour content. The requisite scales are not there, and there is still debate about the detailed physical and chemical mechanisms at work. On 18 February 2014 2

Re: [geo] 'Like a giant elevator to the stratosphere:' Newly discovered atmospheric layer may impact earth's climate -- ScienceDaily

2014-04-05 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
There's little new about the basic idea. Studies of Cb in the Bay of Bengal in the 1960s made it clear that the cores of deep tropical thunderstorms got up as high as 20 - 22 km, essentially unmixed from the marine boundary layer. In 1994, the NASA ER-2 flew from Hawaii to Fiji en route to NZ at 2

Re: [geo] Canadian govt skips mitigation, aims for geoengineering

2014-04-29 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
Here is a link that shows a very useful Canadian approach to attributing warming without the use of numerical models. It eliminates the possibility of the present warming being caused by natural fluctuation. Also attached is an op-ed piece based on the Climate Dynamics paper. There are competent, r

Re: [geo] Maybe it is hopeless

2014-06-07 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
Indeed. My opinion is that it is a phenomenon arising from the widespread use of computers to produce forecasts via numerical process. Note the tendency to refer to such simulations as 'experiments' in modelling papers. On 7 June 2014 04:21, Ken Caldeira wrote: > Whatever happened to the days w

Re: [geo] Moral turbulence and geoengineering - Preston

2014-06-10 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
It would be a good idea to get a grip on the complexities of physical turbulence in the atmosphere and ocean first. Adrian Tuck ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-923653-4 On 10 June 2014 10:25, Andrew Lockley wrote

Re: [geo] Re: paper showing that "turning down the sun" experiments have similar climate results to "prescribed stratospheric aerosol" experiments

2014-07-26 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
The attachment gives abstracts of three papers that show the complexity of the mechanisms that result in stratospheric water vapor content, and also the several chemical complexities of stratospheric aerosol chemistry. Models are some way off being able to represent them quantitatively. On 26 Jul

Re: [geo] Meanwhile: CO2---> char without the bio?

2014-10-06 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
I wouldn't get too excited, wavelengths are in the vacuum UV, 101.5 to 107.2 nm, they don't even reach the stratosphere. On 7 October 2014 00:07, Greg Rau wrote: > Just to clarify, the "they" in the sentence below apparently refers to the > CO2 molecules, not the researchers ;-) > G > > --

Re: [geo] 1. Prospects for an Emergency Drawdown of CO2

2013-01-28 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
eks to mimic the natural ocean processes of upwelling and downwelling. * > *** > > * * > > *References (numbers refer to reference list in the following “Push-pull > ocean pipes” Topic* > > ** ** > > ** ** > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. &g

Re: [geo] Re: Why Greenland’s melting could be the biggest climate disaster of all

2013-01-30 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
It's more likely to be a power law than either linear or exponential, see:- http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/sg/knowledge/isbn/item6817926/The-Weather-and-Climate:-Emergent-Laws-and-Multifractal-Cascades/?site_locale=en_SG The abstract is available on the CUP link above, the book itself will be available

[geo] The Weather and Climate, CUP

2013-04-07 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
climate. There are obviously implications for the modelling of geoengineering. http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781107018983 Adrian Tuck *** 'ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective'. Oxford Univ

Re: [geo] COSMIC-RAY-DRIVEN REACTION AND GREENHOUSE EFFECT OF HALOGENATED MOLECULES: CULPRITS FOR ATMOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE : International Journal of Modern Physics B: Vol

2013-05-30 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
rd.do?product=UA&search_mode=GeneralSearch&qid=1&SID=V26cEgdcC88NGpDMl@o&page=1&doc=1> Author(s): Harris, NRP; Farman, JC; Fahey, DW Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 89 Issue: 21 Article Number: 219801 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.219801 Published: NOV 18 200

Re: [geo] COSMIC-RAY-DRIVEN REACTION AND GREENHOUSE EFFECT OF HALOGENATED MOLECULES: CULPRITS FOR ATMOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE : International Journal of Modern Physics B: Vol

2013-05-30 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
ience. You should ask why this paper, given its potentially important claims, has not appeared in these journals. Adrian Tuck On 31 May 2013 00:52, wrote: > With all due respect Dr. Tuck, the earlier cosmic ray hypothesis was not a > Theory but a hypothesis and if comprehensively debunk

Re: [geo] Effective Climate Action Slogans?

2017-04-21 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
THE LAWS OF SCIENCE CANNOT BE REPEALED - especially by politicians On 21 April 2017 at 12:24, Eric Durbrow wrote: > > > Here in the US we are having a March for Science tomorrow and March for > the Climate on the 29th. Does anyone have a pithy eye-catching > scientifically accurate slogan to hel

Re: [geo] Effective Climate Action Slogans?

2017-04-21 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
SCIENCE NOT PREJUDICE It's gotta be short On 21 April 2017 at 19:02, 'Maggie Zhou' via geoengineering < geoengineering@googlegroups.com> wrote: > SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE > > when PROFITABILITY trumps RATIONALITY, EARTH = the TITANIC > > > On Friday, April 21, 2017 8:28 PM, Eric Durbrow

Re: [geo] Effective Climate Action Slogans?

2017-04-22 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
oo wish it were not true. > > > > On 4/21/17 9:59 PM, Dr. Adrian Tuck wrote: > > SCIENCE NOT PREJUDICE > > It's gotta be short > > On 21 April 2017 at 19:02, 'Maggie Zhou' via geoengineering < > geoengineering@googlegroups.com> wrote: >

Re: [geo] Effective Climate Action Slogans?

2017-04-22 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
A good one seen in Denver: A picture of the Globe with arrows pointing to it and the legend "I'M WITH HER' On 21 April 2017 at 19:02, 'Maggie Zhou' via geoengineering < geoengineering@googlegroups.com> wrote: > SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE > > when PROFITABILITY trumps RATIONALITY, EARTH = t

Re: [geo] Unwieldy chants for Climate March

2017-04-29 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT AN ALTERNATE FACT THE PLANET CARES NOT A RAP FOR POLITICS THINK OF YOUR KIDS & GRANDKIDS SCIENCE LAWS CANNOT BE REPEALED A CHANT: HEY, HEY, HO, HO, ALTERNATE FACTS HAVE TO GO IF YOU DENY IT, GEOPHYSICS WILL BITE YOUR ASS On 29 April 2017 at 09:51, Eric Durbrow wrote: >

[geo] Some Geoengineering history

2018-04-24 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
https://undark.org/article/wilo-imagineers-of-war/ --Adrian Tuck *** 'ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective'. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-923653-4. http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=978

Re: [geo] Re: NOAA goes Plan B

2020-01-24 Thread Dr. Adrian Tuck
Maybe, but we haven’t had the conceit that it was planned, or that we know enough to titrate one or more pollutants against others. Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Jan 2020, at 15:10, Hawkins, David wrote: > >  Ummm, climate intervention is what we have been doing for about 250 years. > > Typed