Hi everybody,
I have been subscribed to this group for well over a year, and have seen a great deal of valuable information produced. I have seen discussions and consensus reached. We have a great deal of expertise among us. But I fear much of our understanding of how to tackle the global environment crisis is being lost in the blogosphere. So I propose that we, as a geoengineering group, should work together to produce a manifesto for geoengineering. This would: describe the state of the Earth's climate system, identify critical risks, put the case for geoengineering, consider how side-effects can be avoided or minimised, and suggest when is the best time for geoengineering action. Otherwise we will finding ourselves saying the same things again and again over the coming months and years. And we need a reasonably solid position statement on which to peg further developments of ideas, which may be more speculative. A manifesto would allow particular members to contribute their particular expertise, and have it scrutinised by others from different viewpoints. I would be will to help in preparing such a manifesto, which would be an open document, but subject to editing control, perhaps on the lines of wikipedia. (Andrew might advise on this, with his wikipedia experience.) However it should be open to the latest thinking (and it would not be sensored in the way that sometimes happens on wikipedia re geoengineering). Cheers, John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
