"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
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
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
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