[geo] Re: Biofuel that's better than carbon neutral (New Scientist)

2012-12-27 Thread Rick Stevens
Not particularly helpful as you need to be subscribed to read it. It was reproduced in its entirety here: http://www.bcsea.org/learn/news/2012/12/21/biofuel-thats-better-than-carbon-neutral On Monday, December 10, 2012 3:02:22 PM UTC-8, Joshua Jacobs wrote:

[geo] How will geoengineers address the statements of the AMS, WMO, and NRC on Weather Modification?

2012-12-27 Thread Jim Lee
Despite the American Meteorological Society https://ams.confex.com/ams/, World Meteorological Organization http://www.wmo.int/, and the National Research Council's http://www.nationalacademies.org/nrc/ National Academy of Sciences Board on Atmospheric Sciences and

Re: [geo] How will geoengineers address the statements of the AMS, WMO, and NRC on Weather Modification?

2012-12-27 Thread Ken Caldeira
Jim, You seem to be arguing against a straw man. -- First: Of course, if climate is modified, weather is also modified. Nobody is rebranding anything. There are two ends of a spectrum: one end in which people would try to influence specific weather events and the other end in which people

Re: [geo] How will geoengineers address the statements of the AMS, WMO, and NRC on Weather Modification?

2012-12-27 Thread Jim Lee
When I asked Stephen Salter thishttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/geoengineering/9pEK5_Np16E/_jdf983Raw4J : 6. How will you address the AMS, WMO, and NRC's statements that: *Weather Modification technologies that claim to achieve such large scale or dramatic effects do not have a sound

RE: [geo] How will geoengineers address the statements of the AMS, WMO, and NRC on Weather Modification?

2012-12-27 Thread John Latham
Hello Jim, In the case of Marine Cloud Brightening, the sprayed material to enhance cloud albedo is seawater. The energy for spraying, guiding the spray-ships etc comes from the wind. Cheers, John (Latham) John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: