In the presentations at the Royal Society on Tuesday 1st September there were several suggestions that geoenginering would reduce or stop the Indian monsoon. This was also mentioned in some questions, answers or subsequent discussion that I was involved in.
My suggestion that this would be a result of global warming anyway was dismissed by one climate scientist so it was interesting to find the following in the Daily Telegraph last Saturday; "Indian Monsoon Could Dry up the torrential rains of India's monsoon could soon be a thing of the past after scientist said climate change is replacing the wet season with drought. In a study of monsoon patterns in India over the past 150 years BN Goswami, the director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, said global warming has made India's weather increasingly unpredictable. He said there were longer dry spells and shorter sudden heavy showers." This fits with my general understanding that global warming will produce more violent storms but that in India, Africa and Sout America the overall result will be rainfall reduction and drought. I have felt that geoengineering should be able to reduce storm severity because of less extreme temperatures and eventually with experience and planning not impair the rainy season in all these places. This is in line with a comment of Greg Benfold's some time ago that a slight reduction in total rainfall might not matter if we lost the storms rather than the background rain. In India now we seem to be getting the opposite. Who is right? John Gorman --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
