Here's my slightly cynical and highly personal list of myths You need to restore baseline temperature not rainfall Astronomy will be damaged All skies will always be white Chemtrails exist Papers about governance result in better governance Rainout is dangerous CDR is commercially viable CDR albedo impacts are trivial Engineering distribution systems is trivial Governance will be centralised Lack of central governance will result in chaos Island states will risk upsetting nations with massive armies Engineered nanotech particles can be assumed safe MCB sprayers will work as expected We understand tropopause effects even slightly adequately Rainout cloud interactions are climatically trivial Policy decisions are made for reasons other than the short term advancement of politicians' careers On 5 Aug 2014 19:38, "Ken Caldeira" <kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu> wrote:
> Folks, > > I am supposed to give a keynote talk at CEC14 in two weeks. For this > talk, I would like to try to develop a list of oft-cited memes that many > assume are established facts, but which may not in fact be true. > > I am thinking of things like: "With solar geoengineering, there will be > winners and losers." "Termination risk is an important reason not to engage > in solar geoengineering." "Solar geoengineering will cause widespread > drying." > > I don't want to discuss all of these things here but simply to develop a > list. You could help me by sending an email answering the questions: > > 2a. What memes are out there which many "experts" regard as > well-established facts but which in fact might not be correct? > > 2b. Why do you suspect the correctness of that meme? > > 2c. (optional) Can you provide a citation or a link to where someone is > assuming the meme is true? > > Thoughtful responses would be most appreciated. If you want to start > discussion about a meme, please do so in a separate thread so that this > thread can be easily used to develop a list. > > Thanks, > > Ken > > _______________ > 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> > > -- > 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.
