[geo] That's Ridiculous

Dust off your tinfoil hats and lock the door. The aptly named "That's Impossible" series on the History Channel has struck gold again, this time with a paranoid buffet of non existent weather weapons. Included in this treatment of the dark side of meteorology are tsunamis and earthquakes, whic

[geo] Re: Protecting the corals

Agree with the analysis presented. As to the impact from geoengineering, the solar radiation management schemes, while not directly reducing emissions of CO2 could indirectly reduce them via less use of AC in temperate and tropical climates and by slowing feedback driven emissions from perma

[geo] Make mud not war

Hi All But if you check outhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye you will see that from 1967 to 1972 the USAF flew 2600 missions to extend the duration of the monsoon over the Ho Chi Minh trail. During a short attachment to the USAF I formed the impression that their technical

[geo] Measuring aerosols

Dear Dr Box, I was interested to read about measuring aerosols, especially using satellites looking in different directions: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/RESEARCH/ATMOSPHERIC/atmospheric_research.html If we are to deliberately deploy stratospheric sulphate aerosols, to cool either regionally (

[geo] Re: Make mud not war

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENMOD_Conventionis the treaty see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_modification 2009/7/21 Stephen Salter > > Hi All > > But if you check outhttp://en.wiki

[geo] Re: Make mud not war

http://www.sunshine-project.org/enmod/popeye Operation Popeye ceased after it was made public by a Seymour Hersh story in the NY Times in 1972. Treaty discussions in Stockholm had nothing to do with the program. The testimony before Congress in the link above also shows that the Pentagon had

[geo] Pros and Cons of SRM geoengineering more widely

Hi all, Recently the geoengineering group discussed the pros and cons of solar radiation management (aka SRM geoengineering) using stratospheric aerosols in the Arctic [1]. A possible downside of more widespread deployment of stratospheric aerosols has come to light; it is from decreased rai

[geo] Re: Pros and Cons of SRM geoengineering more widely

Hello All, As JohnN says, marine cloud brightening is, in principle, a viable, quantitatively adequate alternative to stratospheric seeding, and I think that possibility should definitely be looked into. However, Ken Caldeira has suggested an interesting variation, which is that these two geoe

[geo] Re: Pros and Cons of SRM geoengineering more widely

Interesting stuff. Has anyone looked at plugging in the Biome modelling of Vizy et al into the geoengineered-world GCMs? I'd be very interested to see if geoeng protected, or hastened the demise of the Amazon TRF. We would look a bit silly if we tried to save the world and we torched the Amazon

[geo] Urgent - support the Vestas occupation NOW

This shows that all the talk about government creating Green Jobs is just a big spin, if nothing is made to keep manufacturing these parts to make wind turbines how can one create green electricity if not making wind turbine blades. From: i...@campaigncc.org Subject: Urgent - support the Ves

[geo] Re: Pros and Cons of SRM geoengineering more widely

Re: House of Commons Session in Geoengineering (15/7/09) John, A quick note. I hope I was saying that, if you believe the models which seem OK for temperatures, the sulphur scheme would cool the poles, and the rest of the planet more. Both Rasch's results and those of Lund (bristol) s

[geo] Media Coverage

Hi! Has anyone been tracking more or less systematically english media coverage of geoengineering (or related) issues? Which newspapers or magazines have been particularly active reporting? The University of Heidelberg (Germany) is about to launch an interdisciplinary research project concerned p