Jim Thomas of ETC has a post up at excerpt
> *Big Chill? *Contributing to the normalization of geoengineering, Oliver > Morton, science editor of *The* *Economist*, on his personal blog, likes > the argument that geoengineering could save Africa from the next Northern > volcano.[vi]<http://www.etcgroup.org/content/normalizing-geoengineering-foreign-aid#_edn6> > Morton > doesn’t deny that the Temperate North may judiciously introduce solar > radiation management anyway to protect the Arctic and that, therefore, the > South will have to engage in defensive geoengineering to keep Sahelian > famine at bay. It’s hard to see the sunny side of this for tropical and > subtropical countries. Since most of the proposals involve layering the > stratosphere with sulfate particles that remain aloft for roughly 2 years, > Morton and the geoengineers might spare a little artificial intelligence to > figure out what to do if a real or second “inevitable” volcanic eruption > overlaps the manufactured kind. How would a triple-whammy of sulphates (a > north injection, a south injection and then an unexpected volcanic > addition) shift the climate. Would you need to double the artificial > injection? How can you then scale back afterwards? Just to note its a long time since I was science editor at The Economist (though I agree that a lack of bylines and mastheads makes that a little obscure). Also I explicitly rejected, in the post, the idea that the temperate North would geoengineer by cooling just the northern hemisphere, forcing the south to engage on "defensive geoengineering" On Monday, 1 April 2013 11:17:28 UTC+1, andrewjlockley wrote: > > -- 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, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
