RE: [geo] Can We Use Linear Response Theory to Assess Geoengineering Strategies?

2018-08-25 Thread Douglas MacMartin
“Relatively recent” as in at least 4 years ago... the question posed in the title seems straightforward to answer, since it’s been done already a number of times! MacMartin, D. G., Kravitz, B., Keith, D. W., and Jarvis, A., “Dynamics of the coupled human-climate system resulting from closed-lo

[geo] Geoengineering: How to fall in love with your snow globe world

2018-08-25 Thread Andrew Lockley
https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=792807051634953;res=IELLCC Geoengineering: How to fall in love with your snow globe world Lifted Brow, The Issue 39 (Sep 2018)

[geo] The Evidentiary Politics of the Geoengineering Imaginary

2018-08-25 Thread Andrew Lockley
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4887x5kh The Evidentiary Politics of the Geoengineering Imaginary 2018 Author(s): Flegal, Jane A.Advisor(s): Winickoff, DavidMeckling, Jonas This dissertation investigates the ways in which societies are coming to know and govern solar geoengineering. The question

RE: [geo] Scaling

2018-08-25 Thread Douglas MacMartin
"Although the classical model implied that successive million year global temperature averages would differ by mere micro Kelvins, the implausibility had not been noticed." Uh... I thought it was pretty well known that the variance tends to continue to increase on longer and longer time-scales (