The poll, conducted between Sept. 30 and Oct. 4, finds that 57 percent of
respondents believe there is solid evidence that the Earth is warming, down
from 71 percent in April 2008. The level was 77 percent in January 2007 and
August 2006.
How about belief in ocean acidification? -G
CLIMATE:
Baffin Island reveals dramatic scale of Arctic climate change
Study delves back into 200,000 years of history to demonstrate the devastating
impact of global
warming
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
London's Independent
A frozen lake on a remote island off Canada's
The Copenhagen conference next month is [correction: was - GR] in my opinion
the last chance to stabilise climate at C above pre-industrial levels in a
smooth and organised way,
World on course for catastrophic 6° rise, reveal scientistsBy Steve Connor and
Michael McCarthy
Published on Monday, November 23, 2009 by The Independent/UKAntarctic Ice Loss
Vaster, Faster Than Thought: Studyby The Independent/UKThe East Antarctic
icesheet, once seen as largely unaffected by global warming, has lost billions
of tonnes of ice since 2006 and could boost sea levels in the
Ken,Am all for getting a statement together, but am unclear on where this would
ultimately be aimed - policy makers, funding agencies, governments, the
public/media? - In any case may I suggest that post-Copenhagen would be an
opportune time to lay an overview of the issues and needs on
Sam, I second that. Glad Pachauri's on board. So how do we proceed?- Greg
--- On Mon, 11/30/09, Sam Carana sam.car...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Sam Carana sam.car...@gmail.com
Subject: [geo] Carbon must be sucked from air, says IPCC chief Rajendra
Pachauri
To: geoengineering
Rather than being on the fringe, mainstream (?) Hansen and 350.org require
enhanced air capture to achieve their goal. Otherwise it will take decades if
not centuries to regain 350 ppm. (Personally,
I'm demanding a much less wimpy and more earth-friendly 280 ppm; any other
adherents (or
Leaked UN report shows cuts offered at Copenhagen would lead to 3C riseUN
secretariat initial draft shows gap of up to 4.2 gigatonnes of CO2 between
present pledges and cuts required to limit rise to 2C
Read the UN analysis document here
Suzanne Goldenberg, John Vidal and Jonathan Watts in
What’s next – Acidgate? -Greg
http://boss.hawaiireporter.com/ocean-acidification-is-a-misnomer/
Ocean Acidification is a Misnomer
BY JACK DINI–A good way to excite people is to tell them that something is
becoming more ‘acid,’ as ‘the oceans are undergoing acidification and this is a
potential
/topics
OA False Alarm: CO2 is just neutralizing the ocean [1 Update]
Topic: OA False Alarm: CO2 is just neutralizing the ocean
Rau, Greg r...@llnl.gov Aug 20 10:54AM -0700
^
What’s next – Acidgate? -Greg
http://boss.hawaiireporter.com/ocean
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:36:48 -0700
Subject: EETV -- Climate: AEI's Lane discusses economics and politics of
geoengineering
http://*www.*eenews.tv
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OnPoint -- Tue., August 24,
Why have any odd ducks? How about
1. SRM
2. CDR - distributed
3. CDR - centralized
-or-
1. SRM
2. CDR - biological
3. CDR – chemical
But then we are ignoring physical such as changing downwelling/thermohaline
circulation(?) Not that this is necessarily a contender, but the point is why
be
BUDGET: Climate riders invite a midnight shutdown (04/08/2011)
Evan Lehmann, EE reporter
Urgent efforts to avert a government shutdown at midnight faltered yesterday
over Republican initiatives to freeze climate rules, a challenge to the
president's environmental priorities at the outset of his
CLIMATE: Barrasso, Bingaman reintroduce CCS prize bill (04/08/2011)
Katie Howell, EE reporter
Sens. John Barrasso and Jeff Bingaman yesterday reintroduced their bipartisan
measure that would award monetary prizes to researchers who figure out a way to
suck carbon dioxide directly from the air.
NEGOTIATIONS: When an agenda is not just an agenda (04/11/2011)
Lisa Friedman, EE reporter
Climate change negotiators returned from a round of talks in Bangkok this
weekend with a list of items that nations will address this year leading up to
a December summit in Durban, South Africa.
But
8, 3:16 pm, Rau, Greg r...@llnl.gov wrote:
CLIMATE: Barrasso, Bingaman reintroduce CCS prize bill (04/08/2011)
Katie Howell, EE reporter
Sens. John Barrasso and Jeff Bingaman yesterday reintroduced their
bipartisan measure that would award monetary prizes to researchers who
figure out a way
, 2011 10:48 PM
To: Rau, Greg
Cc: rongretlar...@comcast.net; kcaldeira-gmail; geoengineering
Subject: Re: [geo] Re: calling all CDRers
From Green Futures magazine, this week, by Alan Knight, who is the director of
the Earth Challenge
http://www.forumforthefuture.org/greenfutures/articles
SCIENCE: Vanishing ice allows storms to sharply erode Alaska's Arctic coast
(04/18/2011)
Lauren Morello, EE reporter
Portions of the Arctic coast are eroding by more than 26 feet per year, a
problem that is likely to worsen as climate change intensifies, according to
a new study.
The problem is
http://climateprogress.org/2011/04/17/aerosol-geoengineering-economics/
Science Sunday: “The economics (or lack thereof) of aerosol geoengineering”
Is the aerosol strategy intergenerationally unethical?
April 17, 2011
Joe Romm
The Gist: Putting reflective aerosols high into the atmosphere to
Arctic melting faster, could raise sea 5 feet by 2100
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Arctic ice is melting faster than expected and could raise the
average global sea level by as much as five feet this century, an authoritative
new report suggests.
The study by the international Arctic Monitoring and
May 5, 2011 - Committee Meeting Notice
Senate Energy and Natural
Resourceshttp://www.govtrack.us/congress/committee.xpd?id=SSEG
Thu, May 12, 2011 9:30 AM. Hearings to examine carbon capture and sequestration
legislation, including S.699, to authorize the Secretary of Energy to carry out
a
Unclear on the statement “only Biochar ...provides rather than requires
energy...” Unless I’m missing something biochar requires massive solar energy
input, meaning massive land (and/or ocean?) area management, and probably water
and nutrient management as well (additional energy
There is no doubt about the feasibility of air CO2 capture; Nature does 16 GT
worth of net uptake each year. What also seems certain is that concentrating
CO2 from air is the last thing you want to do, as fundamental thermodynamics
predicts. Where was a discussion about existing and
For those interested, archived webcast of Thurs Senate hearing on CCS and air
capture here:
http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.LiveStreamHearing_id=bc9e9485-df04-5fb0-8621-ac3afa2b26a6
But perhaps I can save you the agony of watching. The continued economic
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/The_role_of_bacteria_in_weather_events_999.html
The role of bacteria in weather events
A diverse range of particles are capable of serving as IN, but the most active
naturally occurring IN are biological in origin, capable of catalyzing ice
formations at
Thanks, Emily. If the background statement (below) for the workshop is
representative (of civil society views?), then GE might be useful when
there is an adequate scientific basis on which to justify such activities
and appropriate consideration of the associated risks for the environment
and
What/which meetings? -G
From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com [geoengineering@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Michael Hayes [voglerl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 2:21 PM
To: geoengineering@googlegroups.com
Subject: [geo] Skype-ing
Unclear how a discussion of methane and fracking got diverted to deep sea CO2
lakes, but if you are suggesting that CCS-captured CO2 be stored as pools in
the deep ocean (discussed at some length in Ken’s IPCC chapter:
As pointed our by Jim
Hansen:http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110603_SilenceIsDeadly.pdfthe
US State Dept is soliciting comments on the Keystone pipeline that will bring
800,000 barrels Canadian tar sands oil to the US per day.Your voice can be
heard
NY Times June 10, 2011
Geo-Engineering Can Help Save the Planet
By THOMAS E. LOVEJOY
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are pushing 400 parts per million
(p.p.m.) — up from the natural pre-industrial level of 280 p.p.m. Emissions for
last year were the highest ever. Rather than drift along
June 9, 2011, Chronicle of Higher Education
After Death Threats to Climate Researchers, Australian Universities Take Tough
Protection Measures
By Colin Woodard
In Australia, the climate for climate-science researchers has deteriorated to
an alarming state.
At least a dozen university climate
EVENT REMINDER
Conference Call: Merchants of Doubt
The Union of Concerned Scientists is excited to announce a briefing on
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues
from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
From the letter:
The likelihood that geoengineering will provide a safe, lasting, democratic
and peaceful solution to the climate crisis is non-existent.
[please fill us in on the safer, longer lasting, more democratic, and peaceful
solutions, and therefore why further evaluation of GE isn't
'Geoengineering is not a public good but could be a giant international
scandal with devastating consequences on the poor, said Diana Bronson, a
researcher with the ETC Group, an international non-governmental
organization.'
What is ETC's answer to the devastating consequences to the poor if by
Unlike the Virgin Earth Challenge, perhaps the US government might get serious
about awarding an air capture prize, though for less money. May the best idea
win (this time).
-Greg
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billreport.xpd?bill=s112-757type=cbo
Jun 17, 2011 - Report
Budget Report for S.
John,
I would not put much credence in APS's $600/tonne CO2 figure. Since $0/tonne
air capture now accounts for 50% uptake of emitted CO2 (15GT CO2/yr), it
would seem to me that should be plenty of low cost ways of increasing this. If,
on the otherhand, you choose to ignore these very
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110620161215.htm
Researchers Link Fastest Sea-Level Rise in Two Millennia to Increasing
Temperatures
ScienceDaily (June 20, 2011) — An international research team including
University of Pennsylvania scientists has shown that the rate of sea-level
another reason we need GE. - Greg
Global warming no friend of California wines: study
By Emmett Berg
SAN FRANCISCO | Fri Jul 1, 2011 6:03pm IST
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Global warming could make it more difficult for
California's prized Napa Valley to make high quality wines over the next 30
Response to Daly's crtique (below) of geo-engineering
-
The very sad and unappreciated truth is that:
a. If all emissions were shut off tomorrow, the sulfate would go away first and
that would yield about a W/m2 forcing in first two weeks, perhaps diminished
slightly by
MO: fossils fuels continue to reign, mortgage the future, deal with the
consequences later (i.e. with geo?) - G
Appropriations Update. The House will finish debate on the Defense
appropriations bill (H.R.2219
.
Chemical names would be a useful addition
A
On 10 Jul 2011 17:16, Rau, Greg r...@llnl.gov wrote:
As for tonnage of mineral no sure if this effects your calc, but isn't the
reaction:
CO2 + CaSiO3 -- CaCO3 + SiO2
or more likely with silicate minerals:
CO2 + MgSiO3 -- MgCO3 + SiO2.
If you
, and iii) vast natural brine electrolytes for air CO2 mitigation and
carbon-negative H2 production.
That is precisely what we do with the Biorock® Process!
Best wishes,
Tom
On Jul 11, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Rau, Greg wrote:
Since the reactions are exothermic and spontaneous, no need for external
Cl2 formation if
NaCl is the electrolyte.
Regards,
Greg
On 7/11/11 12:30 PM, Thomas Goreau gor...@bestweb.net wrote:
Sorry if this was not clear. We do NOT use silicates, but do all the rest.
On Jul 11, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Rau, Greg wrote:
Using silicates as cation sources? I thought your
Thanks, Dave, for the careful read and perspectives. I too am somewhat confused
by the demarcation that Ken refers to. Isn't the entire field of geoengineering
prescriptive and hence not science by Ken's definition? How can the science
body IPCC publish numerous prescriptive tomes on CO2
NY Times July 25, 2011
Blame for Extinction Spreads to Methane Gas
By SINDYA N. BHANOO
Two hundred million years ago, at the end of the Triassic period, a mass
extinction, often attributed to major volcanic activity, wiped out half of all
marine life on Earth. But new research published in the
SCIENCE: Climate change 'remobilizes' long-buried pollutants as Arctic ice
melts (07/25/2011)
Lauren Morello, EE reporter
Warming in the Arctic is causing the release of toxic chemicals long trapped in
the region's snow, ice, ocean and soil, according to a new study.
Researchers from Canada,
What is most sobering, especially for the scientific community and climate
change communicators, is that climate change denial has actually increased
in the U.S. general public between 2001 and 2010, although primarily due to
a significant increase in the past two years.
Conservative white
coming up with an effective technological approach.
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Russia may lose 30% of permafrost by 2050(AFP) – Jul 29, 2011 MOSCOW —
Russia's vast permafrost areas may shrink by a third by the middle of the
century due to global warming, endangering infrastructure in the Arctic zone,
an emergencies ministry official said Friday.In the next 25 to 30
Good luck -G
__
Science And The Debt Deal
Politics: Compromise includes cuts that will hit science agencies over the next
decade
Susan R. Morrissey, Glenn Hess and Raj Mukhopadhyay
Legislation signed by President Barack Obama this week to raise the debt
ceiling
From: Andrew Lockley [andrew.lock...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 7:36 PM
To: Rau, Greg
Subject: Re: [geo] Major BECCS study
Please can you add text to your posts in future? Offline readers can't view
links, and they are also more likely to be caught in spam filters
Thanks
A
On 5 Aug
With all due respect to Martin, I'm very sceptical the iron fueled marine
biology was a major player in G-I air CO2 fluctuations, but at $32/reprint, can
anyone freely supply me with the evidence?
Thanks,
Greg
From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/25/polar-sea-ice-may-expand_n_935279.html?view=printcomm_ref=false
Polar Sea Ice May Expand Before It Disappears
Posted: 8/25/11 05:44 PM ET
React
Arctic sea ice is melting, but don't say goodbye just yet. A new study reveals
that it may temporarily stop
Deep Oceans May Mask Global Warming for Years at a Time
Earth's deep oceans may absorb enough heat at times to flatten the rate of
global warming for periods of as long as a decade--even in the midst of
longer-term warming. This according to a new analysis led by scientists at the
National
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2011/09/21/10
GEOENGINEERING:
Testing begins on device that captures CO2 from the air
Published: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
A machine designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air has taken shape on the
University of Calgary campus in Alberta. The
Speaking of mineral carbonation, check out:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./j.1530-9290.2011.00368.x/abstract
;jsessionid=15DD453CB61D6B1B218D916F13507A2E.d01t01
-Greg
On 9/23/11 4:40 AM, Oliver Tickell oliver.tick...@kyoto2.org wrote:
Monbiot's real mistake here is to swallow the
Strong and Reversible Binding of Carbon Dioxide in a Green Metal-Organic
Framework
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja206525x
The efficient capture and storage of gaseous CO2 is a pressing environmental
problem. Although porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been shown to be
very
systems of worms and higher animals,
etc, it's a great deal faster - the biospheric enhancement factor
speeds it up by several orders of magnitude.
Oliver.
On Sep 26, 4:09 pm, Rau, Greg r...@llnl.gov wrote:
And to round out the options, let¹s not forget Harvey¹s
limestone-rain-in-the-ocean
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/engineering-the-eart
h-forums-big-ideas/2303296.aspx?storypage=0
Engineering the Earth: forum's big ideas
BY BREANNA TUCKER
26 Sep, 2011 12:00 AM
Shading the Earth under a giant umbrella, painting roofs white and
simulating volcanic
Even Wally Broecker's jest — that deniers could blame God — may not be an
option for long.
Last May the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences, arm of an institution
that once persecuted Galileo for his scientific findings, pronounced on manmade
global warming: It's happening.
Said the pope's
seawaters may in fact take
away
a significant portion of phosphorus through adsorption, therefore
reduce the
availability of a critical nutrient for surface ocean primary
production.
David.
On Sep 26, 10:49 am, Rau, Greg r...@llnl.gov wrote:
There is a delay if air capture is the objective
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/reactions-to-a-new-plan-for-co2-progress/
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Cosmochimica Acta Vol. 50, pp.
2255-2265.
Cheers,
David.
On Sep 27, 1:00 pm, Rau, Greg r...@llnl.gov wrote:
Thanks David. I defer to Harvey's paper as to the particle size and rain rate
needed to effect limestone dissolution at depth. Slow kinetics can always be
countered by increased particle
Cosmochimica Acta 40, 191202.
Plummer, L.N., Wigley, T.M.L. and Parkhurst, D.L., 1978: The kinetics
of calcite dissolution in CO2-water systems at 560°C and 0.01.0 atm
CO2. American Journal of Science 278, 179216.
Tom.
On 9/28/2011 1:44 PM, Rau, Greg wrote
Carbon cycle: A dent in carbon's gold standard
Matthias Cuntz
Nature 477, 547–548 (29 September 2011) doi:10.1038/477547a
Published online 28 September 2011
The global uptake of carbon by land plants may be greater than previously
thought, according to observations based on the enigmatic Keeling
~ 0) is much faster than in seawater (pH 7.6, ionic
strength ~ 0.7) and natural CO2 exchange (or flux) between soil
and atmosphere is on the same order as that between ocean and
atmosphere?
Just a thought.
David.
On Sep 29, 9:12 am, Rau, Greg r...@llnl.gov wrote:
Thanks, Tom. I think
to keep
the soil PCO2 about the same? The climate/soilPCO2 relationship in the
above paper suggests that this is what will happen.
So the net effect is probably small.
Tom.
+
On 9/29/2011 5:14 PM, Rau, Greg wrote:
There's a large literature on and practice of crop soil
Once at the website I get a server not found message? I assume that's 10AM
EDT. - Greg
On 10/4/11 6:36 AM, Jane Flegal fleg...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/news/multimedia/2011/09/29/geoengineering-clim
ate-remediation
kWEBCAST: Geoengineering: Research on Climate
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/oct/06/us-push-geoengineering/print
Big names behind US push for geoengineering
Posted by
John Vidal Thursday 6 October 2011 07.04 EDT
A coalition representing the most powerful academic, military, scientific and
corporate interests has set its
There was a large session on methane at the last Goldschmidt Conf this Aug.
http://www.goldschmidt2011.org/program/programView?period=17cpdf=1
numerous methane papers in other sessions can be found by searching methane
at:
http://www.goldschmidt2011.org/abstracts/abstractSearch
e.g.,
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n5/full/ncomms1053.html?WT.ec_id=EXTERNALWT.mc_id=NC1108CE061
Production of biochar (the carbon (C)-rich solid formed by pyrolysis of
biomass) and its storage in soils have been suggested as a means of abating
climate change by sequestering carbon, while
Engineering the climate is last and scariest option, says US scientist
The lack of international action on cutting emissions highlights need to
research geoengineering further, says Jane C S Long
* Yale Environment 360http://www.e360.yale.edu/, part of the Guardian
Environment
From: ocb-all-boun...@whoi.edu [ocb-all-boun...@whoi.edu] On Behalf Of Bob
Anderson [b...@ldeo.columbia.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 8:16 AM
To: ocb-...@whoi.edu
Subject: [Ocb-all] US GEOTRACES Arctic planning and information events
Dear
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/42/17296.full
Abstract
Recent studies have shown strong temporal correlations between past climate
changes and societal crises. However, the specific causal mechanisms underlying
this relation have not been addressed. We explored quantitative responses of 14
Another reason why we need to enhance natural CO2 conversion to ocean
alkalinity (it's next natural resting place anyway), rather than expensively
concentrate and riskily store molecular CO2. -G
From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com
Anthony Watts, a former TV meteorologist who runs the blog Watts Up With
That? and who had initially consulted with Muller on the Berkeley effort, took
the unusual step of submitting a letter decrying its findings to lawmakers
before the House hearing where Muller spoke had ended (ClimateWire,
More reporting below:
PUBLIC OPINION:
Survey finds widespread support for geoengineering research
Julia Pyper, EE reporter
Published: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
A new study finds that the majority of people in America, Canada and Britain
approve of more research in the nascent field of climate
The confession (warning, not peer reviewed ;-) -G
The Case Against Global-Warming Skepticism; There were good reasons for
doubt, until now.
Richard A. Muller. Wall Street Journal (Online). New York, N.Y.:Oct 21,
2011.
Are you a global warming skeptic? There are plenty of good reasons why
Anyone thought of using the aerosol data described below for extrapolating
the effects of intentional aerosol loading? -Greg
CLIMATE:
Provoked scientists try to explain lag in global warming
Paul Voosen, EE reporter
Published: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, Hawaii -- At
A worldwide conversion to white roofs, they found, could actually warm the
Earth slightly due a complex domino effect. Although white surfaces are cooler,
the increased sunlight they reflect back into the atmosphere by can increase
absorption of light by dark pollutants such as black carbon,
“Who will decide there is a need, that climate engineering is an “appropriate
medicine”? The conditions for making such a technological wager legitimate,
democratic, and equitable must be explicit. For we are naive to assume the
decision to administer a medicine by a physician is based on
Chris,
Re my original snow question, you say:
It is not a corallary to the Jacobson result that putting snow
beneath dark aerosols will warm climate. Snow, like roofs, is bright,
so it is understandable why one might think this. However snow, unlike
roofs, melts when you warm the overlying
Thawing microbes could control the climate
As the Arctic permafrost melts over the coming decades, long-frozen
microorganisms will thaw out and start feasting on the soil. The first have
already begun to wake up – and early signs are that they will have a major
impact on how Earth's climate
“It [the report*] recommends that policymakers consider geoengineering as a
third strategy, to use only if clearly needed.
Likewise, governments should not fund geoengineering research at the expense of
research and development of energy efficiency measures, carbon-free energy
sources, climate
Technical, Economical, and Climate-Related Aspects of Biochar Production
Technologies: A Literature Review
Sebastian Meyer*http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es201792c#cor1†, Bruno
Glaser‡, and Peter Quicker§
Bioenergy Unit, Ecofys, 81243 München, Germany
Soil Biogeochemistry,
In case you missed this, draft strategic plan for climate measurement and
prediction for informing decision makers is announced below. Since the
document does bring up climate science as servicing adaptation and mitigation,
e.g.*, might it be appropriate to insert language on GE and how
Dear NACP investigators' community:
I strongly encourage you to comment on the draft US Global Change Research
Program Strategic Plan for 2012-2021. The public comment period ends on
Tuesday, 29 November, 2011. This document is intended to guided federal
research in global change for the
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/30215740.htm#.TthZQQuuESg.email
ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2011) — As global temperatures continue to rise at an
accelerated rate due to deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels, natural
stores of carbon in the Arctic are cause for serious
The final report grew out of three days of talks in a quiet country retreat
last March, the climax of a yearlong dialogue spanning experts in 22 countries.
Quiet indeed. - Greg
U.N. Climate Conference: Geoengineering Could Save Earth -- Or Destroy It
ARTHUR MAX 12/ 2/11 12:29 PM ET
Only by reducing our CO2 emissions and enhancing the protection of oceans to
strengthen their ability to recover, can we effectively address this issue.
[from article pasted below]
Haven't these guys heard of CDR, and no, there will be zero ability for many
marine species to recover once fatal
NYTimes editorial
December 16, 2011
Beyond Durban
Startling new evidence that global carbon dioxide emissions are rising faster
than ever did little to increase the urgency of the climate talks in Durban,
South Africa, which concluded earlier this week. Once again, the world’s
negotiators
A more stringent target, say consistent with an 80 per cent chance of meeting
the 2 degree goal, would have an even smaller budget of 500-600bn tonnes
[cumulative CO2 emitted globally, 2010 – 2050]
…the proven reserves of the world’s top 100 listed coal companies and top 100
listed oil and gas
Joe Romm weighs in on Arctic carbon:
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/19/392242/carbon-time-bomb-in-arctic-new-york-times-print-edition-gets-the-story-right/
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This came to my attention via Adam Cherson.
More from our esteemed colleagues at the PNAS:
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/51/20277
Unfortunately, subscription required. Can anyone out there facilitate
distribution of the whole story (link or pdf) to the masses?
Thanks, happy holidays, and
http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/12/29/should-we-fear-the-methane-time-bomb/
Should We Fear the Methane Time Bomb?
by MARLO LEWIS on DECEMBER 29, 2011
in BLOG, FEATURES
A favorite doomsday scenario of the anti-carbon crusade hypothesizes that
global warming, by melting frozen Arctic soils on
I'm no economist, but isn't this an amazing market disconnect? The need for
CO2 mitigation highest ever, the market value of mitigation plummets. So much
for market and policy driven CO2 response. Lack of effective PR, lobbying, and
outreach I think is to blame, an no, this is not the primary
Also, I haven't read the literature, but has anyone actually measured the
bubbles to show that it's methane and not H2S, NxOy, CO2, etc. Granted the
former are probably not going to be important on land/freshwater. The images
of the undersea plumes are impressive. Would be really interesting
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We would cordially like to draw your attention to the following
Goldschmidt
session:
Session 12h. Frontiers in methane biogeochemistry
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas which constitutes an integral part of
the
global carbon cycle. Although methane has been
Link:
http://www.goldschmidt2012.org/
Under Program go to Themes then to Theme 12h
-G
On 1/9/12 9:23 AM, Rau, Greg r...@llnl.gov wrote:
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We would cordially like to draw your attention to the following
Goldschmidt
session:
Session 12h. Frontiers in methane
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