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

Thanks, Robot. Missed the hearing, but found the website:https://science.house.gov/legislation/hearings/subcommittee-environment-and-subcommittee-oversight-hearing-what-cost-examining Interesting opening statement by Chair L. Smith: "Rushing to use unreliable calculations, such as the social cost

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

over the transom from my fellow AAAS Fellows [Fellows Energy Climate digest] (which is also a Google Group) -- there's a hearing today in the House Science Committee about this subject: Social Cost of CO2 hearing

[geo] Fwd: Air Pollution May Have Masked Mid-20th Century Sea Ice Loss - Eos

> The new study supports the idea that air pollution is to blame for the > observed Arctic sea ice expansion. Particles of air pollution that come > primarily from the burning of fossil fuels may have temporarily hidden the > effects of global warming in the third quarter of the 20th Century in

[geo] Re[2]: [geo-engineering] NYT: A Conservative Case for Climate Action

Dear Aryt, The balloon variant is only one of the many possibilities of generating an ISA plume according to the ISA method. Solar updraft towers extract the energy for lifting the source of the ISA plume to sufficient hight from sunshine. These towers seem to be an option to realize the ISA