[geo] MERGING 'climateIntervention' AND 'geoengineering' GOOGLE GROUPS BACK INTO

2011-03-13 Thread Ken Caldeira
Folks, The experiment to separate the group into and seems to have failed in a morass of confusion and redundancy. The original idea was to have one group be more lax, and open to climate-related discussions and so on, retaining the other for more narrowly-focused academic announcements and di

[geo] Re: MERGING 'climateIntervention' AND 'geoengineering' GOOGLE GROUPS BACK INTO

2011-03-13 Thread Michael Hayes
Thanks Ken, One observation tho, if the Intervention moderator is now the primary moderator for Geo, doesn't that mean that Geo has become Intervention? These type of online groups are as much a reflection of the moderators strengths and limitations as they are a reflection of the overall membersh

Re: [geo] Re: MERGING 'climateIntervention' AND 'geoengineering' GOOGLE GROUPS BACK INTO

2011-03-13 Thread Ken Caldeira
Michael, It is true that will become more like , although with the filter just slightly ratcheted up. If someone wants to complain about Andrew's moderation, please feel free to send me an email at . I will retain"ownership" of the group. I will also help moderate a little more actively through

Re: [geo] MERGING 'climateIntervention' AND 'geoengineering' GOOGLE GROUPS BACK INTO

2011-03-13 Thread John Latham
Hello All, Absence of perfection in any human activity involving more than one person (at most) is virtually inevitable. Overall,I have found the blogs that Ken initiated to be of great value in many ways, and in my view we owe him a hearty vote of thanks, which should also be extended to thos