Re: [geo] Fwd: DECIMALS Fund – call for proposals opens today

2018-04-04 Thread Michael MacCracken
One would hope that the DECIMALS researchers would also look at whether 1.5 to 2 C is a workable target temperature to be aiming at. Given that sea level rose 120 meters as the global average temperature rose something like 6 C coming out of the Last Glacial Maximum and there was very little po

Re: [geo] Fwd: DECIMALS Fund – call for proposals opens today

2018-04-04 Thread Cush Ngonzo Luwesi
Dear all, I totally agree with Andy. SRM research is as vital as was nuclear research in the 1950s, even if at the end there might be a lot of disagreement between users. Secondly, we cannot compare SRM solutions to mobile phones or vaccinations. The first are likely to affect the life of millions

Re: [geo] Fwd: DECIMALS Fund – call for proposals opens today

2018-04-04 Thread Andy Parker
Alan, many thanks for posting this. Andrew, shouldn’t people in developing countries be the ones to decide whether or not they research SRM? In SRMGI’s workshops across the Global South participants have been opposed to SRM deployment at this stage and concerned that developing countries might

Re: [geo] Fwd: DECIMALS Fund – call for proposals opens today

2018-04-03 Thread Andrew Lockley
I'm unsure why the developing world needs to do its own SRM research any more than it needs to manufacture its own mobile phones or vaccinations. We have clusters of competence in various parts of the world for various things - and distribution of effort risks dilution of competence. Perhaps better