Re: [geo] Meanwhile, Arctic dullwater

2012-09-10 Thread RAU greg
I'm with you, John. Certainly one "positive feedback" is the "90 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil (and 44 billion barrels of natural gas liquids )"* up there that are suddenly getting a whole lot easier to extract. Anyone care to calculate the watts of additional wa

Re: [geo] Meanwhile, Arctic dullwater

2012-09-10 Thread John Nissen
Hi all, Thanks Greg. It is astonishing that the Met Office is still sticking to outdated models, though they have been gradually bringing forward their predictions of sea ice demise down since the IPCC prediction of 'beyond 2100' in AR4. Peter Wadhams has been predicting that sea ice volume will

RE: [geo] Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) simulations of climate following volcanic eruptions

2012-09-10 Thread Simon Driscoll
Dear all, the published version (no longer PiP) is now available here: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2012/2012JD017607.shtml Warm regards, Simon Simon Driscoll Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department of Physics University of Ox

[geo] corporate policy statements on geoengineering?

2012-09-10 Thread Fred Zimmerman
Is anyone aware of large corporations that have taken policy stands on geoengineering -- e.g. expressed support for the Oxford Principles, funded socially responsible research, joined coalitions, etc? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" g

[geo] Global model study of sulfur injections by using commercial aircrafts

2012-09-10 Thread Anton Laakso
Hi all, Our paper "Stratospheric passenger flights are likely an inefficient geoengineering strategy" is now published in Environmental Research Letters: Laakso A., A.-I. Partanen, H. Kokkola, A. Laaksonen, K. E. J. Lehtinen and H. Korhonen (2012). Stratospheric passenger flights are likely an ine