[geo] Re: Audio (20m) Hewett and Lomberg: Geo-engineering: fixing climate for just US$6 billion

2012-08-30 Thread Russell Seitz
"If you paint a quarter of all London rooftops white, you could probably reduce heat wave temperatures by 10 degrees centigrade — so lots of impact at very low cost. Let's think about that," said Danish author and political scientist Dr Bjørn Lomberg, Since roofs constitute <25 % of greater l

[geo] Cost analysis of stratospheric albedo modification delivery systems (ERL) Open Access

2012-08-30 Thread Andrew Lockley
Poster's note: Isn't this just a reformatted version of the Aurora flight report? If so, it ignores gas guns (which are half the price in $/kg of solid-propellant guns) and contradicts SPICE balloon cost estimates. It works up aircraft way more than other tech, leading to unsurprisingly lower cos

[geo] UC Davis News & Information :: Climate models may overstate black carbon’s influence

2012-08-30 Thread Andrew Lockley
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10317 Climate models may overstate black carbon’s influence August 30, 2012 Global climate models may be overstating the warming properties of black carbon particles, according to new research led by the University of California, Davis. The

Re: [geo] Antarctic methane: The frozen fire down below

2012-08-30 Thread Andrew Lockley
Link to paper, which was infuriatingly hard to get hold of (had to actually contact the journal to get it) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v488/n7413/full/nature11374.html?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureClimate On Aug 30, 2012 1:01 AM, "Rau, Greg" wrote: > 'Vast reservoir' of methane locked beneath ben