[geo] Paris Climate Agreement: Shaky Technological Foundations

2015-12-21 Thread Rau, Greg
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/544551/paris-climate-agreement-rests-on-shaky-technological-foundations/?utm_campaign=newsletters_source=newsletter-weekly-energy_medium=email_content=20151221 "Simply put, the technology for separating carbon dioxide from power-plant emis

[geo] Talks in the city of light generate more heat - Nature

2015-12-21 Thread Andrew Lockley
http://www.nature.com/news/talks-in-the-city-of-light-generate-more-heat-1.19074?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews Talks in the city of light generate more heat Rather than relying on far-off negative-emissions technologies, Paris needed to deliver a low-carbon road map for today, argues Kevin Anderson.

Re: [geo] List of current thing we do which affect the climate, like geoengineering

2015-12-21 Thread emily
Hi All, Thanks for the emails on this. My thinking stems from a place where some of the things we currently do look a lot like some proposals for geo-eng, and we don't bat an eye, yet when these same activities are proposed for good purpose, they are slammed. I struggle with this, and feel it

Re: [geo] List of current thing we do which affect the climate, like geoengineering

2015-12-21 Thread NORTHCOTT Michael
I appreciate your reasoned argument Emily but I don't think the repeated use of this list by a few individuals to advocate for geoengineering is helpful. Such contributions killed another useful list and are not in the spirit of academic listserves. I agree with Alan. This list is for