[geo] Re: China could move first to geoengineer the climate

2013-04-30 Thread Russell Seitz
Clive seems increasingly bent on becoming the Helen Caldicott of the Climate Wars. On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 8:54:24 AM UTC-4, andrewjlockley wrote: > > http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5952 > > Clive Hamilton is professor of public ethics at Australia’s Charles Sturt > Unive

[geo] China could move first to geoengineer the climate

2013-04-30 Thread Andrew Lockley
http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5952 Clive Hamilton is professor of public ethics at Australia’s Charles Sturt University and a prominent critic of geoengineering. Here he discusses his latest book Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering. Olivia Boyd: You desc

[geo] On Jaffé article in Science: a caution

2013-04-30 Thread Brian Cartwright
to geoengineering: The article in Science surprised a lot of people with data that "charcoal" enters the world's oceans in massive quantities. My caution is about language. A spin-off article made it to the Scientific American with the title, "Soils Cannot Lock Away Black Carbon". The auth

[geo] Opinion Article on SRMGI by Alex Hanafi and Steve Hamburg

2013-04-30 Thread Geoengineering Our Climate (eds. Blackstock, Miller and Rayner)
Dear colleagues, Alex Hanafi and Steven P. Hamburg of the Environmental Defense Fund have penned an Opinion Article (1500 words) titled "SRMGI: Advancing the International Governance of Geoengineering Research" for the 'Geoengineering Our Climate?' Series, accompanied by excerpts of a video-interv

[geo] Re: Apparently we've been doing global scale lake geoengineering (P-capping) for decades

2013-04-30 Thread M V Bhaskar
Fred We have a much simpler, ecofriendly and logical process. We grow Diatom Algae in the lakes, these consume the P and Diatoms are consumed by fish, so it exits the lake as fish. The problem with excess nutrients in lakes is due to the wrong type of algae and weeds growing in them due to the

[geo] Apparently we've been doing global scale lake geoengineering (P-capping) for decades

2013-04-30 Thread Fred Zimmerman
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es401363w Geo-Engineering in Lakes—A Call for Consensus Bryan M. Spears *†, Bernard Dudley †, Kasper Reitzel ‡, and Emil Rydin § † Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Edinburgh, Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland, UK EH26 0QB ‡ Institute of Biology, University of