As far as I can tell, Hamilton provides no citation in this work to support the following assertion, other than his own book:
*Already, conservative forces in the United States are promoting it as a substitute for emissions reductions.* I further note the incongruity of reading a section titled "A world controlled by scientists" the same day that Science magazine publishes an article about how the politicians ignore the recommendations of scientists when it comes to climate change: http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2014/04/scientists-licking-wounds-after-contentious-climate-report-negotiations _______________ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira Assistant: Dawn Ross <dr...@carnegiescience.edu> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Alan Robock <rob...@envsci.rutgers.edu>wrote: > Geoengineering and the politics of science, by Clive Hamilton > Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, April 16, 2014, doi: 10.1177/0096340214531173 > > > > http://bos.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/04/15/0096340214531173.abstract.html > > The latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change > (IPCC) include an assessment of geoengineering--methods for removing carbon > dioxide from the atmosphere, or cooling the Earth by reflecting more of the > sun's radiation back into space. The IPCC assessment signals the arrival of > geoengineering into the mainstream of climate science, and may normalize > climate engineering as a policy response to global warming. Already, > conservative forces in the United States are promoting it as a substitute > for emissions reductions. Climate scientists are sharply divided over > geoengineering, in much the same way that Manhattan Project scientists were > divided over nuclear weapons after World War II. Testing a geoengineering > scheme, such as sulfate aerosol spraying, is inherently difficult. > Deployment would make political decision makers highly dependent on a > technocratic elite. In a geoengineered world, experts would control the > conditions of daily life, and it is unlikely that such a regime would be a > just one. A disproportionate number of scientists currently working on > geoengineering have either worked at, or collaborated with, the Lawrence > Livermore National Laboratory. The history of US nuclear weapons > laboratories during the Cold War reveals a belief in humankind's right to > exercise total mastery over nature. With geoengineering, this kind of > thinking is staging a powerful comeback in the face of climate crisis. > ---- > Hamilton correctly explains my arguments against a gradual ramp up of > geoengineering as proposed by David Keith, and the lack of a rebuttal in > Keith's book. > > But I just want to point out that even though I had a summer job at > Livermore when I was a grad student 41 years ago, and have collaborated > with climate scientists there since then on nuclear winter and > geoengineering, I am not evil and determined to control the world with > geoengineering. > > Alan > > -- > Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor > Editor, Reviews of Geophysics > Director, Meteorology Undergraduate Program > Department of Environmental Sciences Phone: +1-848-932-5751 > Rutgers University Fax: +1-732-932-8644 > 14 College Farm Road E-mail: rob...@envsci.rutgers.edu > New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551 USA http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock > http://twitter.com/AlanRobock > Watch my 18 min TEDx talk at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsrEk1oZ-54 > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
