Re: [geo] Contextualizing Climate Engineering and Mitigation: Illusion, Complement or Substitute?

2017-01-12 Thread Michael Hayes
Hi Folks, Gallant effort yet lags behind the leading thoughts by about 5-6 years. First, CE can easily be both mitigation and adaptation. Second, the question: - *From the perspective of applied ethics and decision analysis, under which conditions can mitigation and CE options be combin

[geo] Re: Social Cost of Carbon - new NAS report (on methodology - not values of)

2017-01-12 Thread robot
Actually, they did project a range of values on the screen, strongly dependent on discount rate. They did "thousands of runs" to develop three asymmetric bell curves of SCC values per tonne, one for each discount rate, colored RGB. Each of those curves had a peak way to the left, and a long tail

[geo] the political context on clarifying social cost of carbon

2017-01-12 Thread Andrew Revkin
Seeing the helpful discussion emerge on the new National Academies report on ways to improve the "social cost of carbon" estimates, thought you'd appreciate my piece on the political context, which is essential to consider given that key aspects of the final determination of such metrics is implici