Hi Ken,
I hope I am not too late to bring this up.
There are two fundamental memes about geoengineering which worry me because
the leading scientific evidence suggests they are false:
1. That you can reduce CO2 to a safe level in the atmosphere (as regards
its global warming and ocean
Hi Ron,
I agree that CDR warrants attention from ethicists (and others). For those
attending the Berlin Climate Engineering Conference this week, there is a
session on the ethics of CDR that might be of interest:
http://www.ce-conference.org/ethics-carbon-dioxide-removal.
Best,
Toby
The Ethics
Toby,
I regret I will not be at the meeting to learn more about the ethics of CDR.
Presumably this refers to enhancement of existing, natural CDR which is already
removing about 55% of our emissions, but which is immune from ethical
considerations(?) Regardless of our actions, this natural CDR
The research proposed can also be improved if we also take into account the
very important health cost savings:
According to Shindell (*) dramatically cutting polluting emissions (BC and
CH4) with existing technology would avoid 0.7–4.7 million annual premature
deaths every year, from
Dear John - Had you a technique that worked securely, quite a few people
might sleep better at night. But Ken once accused you, if I remember
correctly, of making reckless statements, and since you don't have such a
technique, trying to speak in ways that intentionally builds a feeling of
Dr Calvin:
Not sure if your response below was to my proposed false (repeat false)
meme, directed to Ken, which read (see more below):
SRM can be analyzed adequately and correctly without comparing to
CDR/NET.
See next in response to your rejoinder: Compared to what?
On Aug
Dr. Svoboda, list, and panelists
1. Thanks for the alert on this 1.5 hour panel. I hope that you
and/or others can report back on any comparisons found for the ethics of CDR
and SRM.
2. Curiously, a major news item relative to biochar just came to my
attention yesterday
Dr. Svoboda etal (adding Dr. Joseph)
Re this just identified Transparency report, whose title was
Global Biochar Market is Expected to Reach 300 Kilo Tons and USD 572.3
Million by 2020
Just in tonight, on the Yahoo biochar list, from Dr. Stephen Joseph (a
