[geo] Xmas

2017-11-09 Thread John Latham
Dear All So sorry not to send yr unique Card but I hope you wont mind. The shock of Robs death and his loss has been almost unbearable for all of us, and added to that the death of Mike creates an almost unbearable situation,On a lesser not y dementia my dementia has made life very wonky.

Re: [geo] On why we'll very likely need climate engineering

2015-06-03 Thread John Latham
they have been rigorously field-tested. It is not sufficient to say that MCB will work because ship-tracks enhance cloud brightness. All Best Wishes, John [John Latham] On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Alan Robock rob...@envsci.rutgers.edu wrote: Dear Mike and Jon, I agree with Jon

Re: [geo] Comparing MCB v. Aerosol SRM

2015-06-02 Thread John Latham
calculations which indicate that MCB is cheaper than the sulphur technique. I'm sure that he'd provide you with a copy of his calculations ,[ s.sal...@ed.ac.uk] Best Wishes John [John Latham,[johnlatha...@gmail.com] On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Dr D durb...@gmail.com wrote: I've watch

Re: [geo] Comparing MCB v. Aerosol SRM

2015-05-31 Thread John Latham
https://groups.google.com/d/optout. John Latham. Comparison of Sulphur MCB ideas.docx Description: MS-Word 2007 document

Re: [geo] Can super-super-super computers really help climate engineering efforts?

2015-05-15 Thread John Latham
Hello Alan, Great! Keep on with the good work! Cheers, John On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Alan Gadian a.m.gad...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: The answer is yes. See publications on marine cloud brightening. Currently global simulations are being carried out with large nested domains down to 3km.

RE: [geo] NAS-Royal Society report - recent new report release

2014-03-15 Thread John Latham
Latham lat...@ucar.edu] John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK) 01928-730-002 http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/people/latham

RE: [geo] Re: Global solicitation for new ideas is needed more than ever

2013-09-03 Thread John Latham
and polar sea-ice coverage. Best Wishes, John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK) 01928-730-002 http

RE: [geo] Global solicitation for new ideas is needed more than ever

2013-09-01 Thread John Latham
in suggesting the abandonment of the MCB and stratospheric sulphur techniques, which have not yet received adequate funding for a thorough examination.And which do show promise. All Best,John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha

RE: [geo] Re: Playing God With the Planet - The Ethics Politics of Geoengineering

2013-08-12 Thread John Latham
Andrew, Sloppy sentence. Yes, I have to plead guilty. Cheers, John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK) 01928

RE: [geo] Re: Playing God With the Planet - The Ethics Politics of Geoengineering

2013-08-11 Thread John Latham
as possible, the damage that we have caused? Best Wishes,John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK) 01928-730-002 http

[geo] Ship-Tracks!! Re: Lateline - 22/11/2012: One of the worlds leading geo-engineering proponents, Harvard Professor David Keith

2013-08-11 Thread John Latham
Or one could, if so disposed, make an equivalent case for Marine Cloud Brightening, (MCB) since oceanic ships have been producing higher reflectivity ship tracks for a century or more. Cheers,John. lat...@ucar.edu John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000

[geo] PS TO LAST!!: Ship-Tracks!! Re: Lateline - 22/11/2012: One of the worlds leading geo-engineering proponents, Harvard Professor David Keith

2013-08-11 Thread John Latham
From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com [geoengineering@googlegroups.com] on behalf of John Latham [john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk] Sent: 12 August 2013 02:36 To: kcalde...@gmail.com; macma...@cds.caltech.edu Cc: m2des...@cablespeed.com; geoengineering

[geo] Playing God With the Planet - danger of being too sweeping

2013-08-09 Thread John Latham
, and well-established. We do not yet know whether MCB will pass all necessary tests, but we do think that it is worthwhile to perform research to establish whether or not it could. Cheers, John (Latham). John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu

[geo] Response to D Keith lecture at Harvard: SRM definition.

2013-08-06 Thread John Latham
if and when all other SRM techniques have been discarded. All best,John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK

FW: [geo] Coral Reef preservation via Marine Cloud Brightening. parasol

2013-06-26 Thread John Latham
From: John Latham Sent: 26 June 2013 22:11 To: Fred Zimmerman Subject: RE: [geo] Coral Reef preservation via Marine Cloud Brightening. Interesting question, Fred. Much yet to be worked out, but I think not the so much shape of a parasol, as of a line of people waiting for bread. The scale

RE: [geo] Experiment Currently Taking Place in the Arctic?

2013-06-17 Thread John Latham
Hello All, I'm told that it might be an airborne study associated with the SPICE project, but I cant gauge the accuracy of that supposition. Cheers, John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work

RE: [geo] Climate talk shifts from curbing CO2 to adapting

2013-06-17 Thread John Latham
Well said, Mike! I dont know why yr critical point is so often overlooked. Actually, I think I do know. But it's so hard to accept that we can be so obtuse, and also fail to deliver clearly your crucial message,. All Best, John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO

[geo] Marine Cloud Brightening: Rainfall; Patchiness: KenC

2013-06-14 Thread John Latham
in earlier papers. Details of a recently published paper on hurricane weakening via MCB are Presented below. A paper on the utilization of MCB for the preservation of coral reefs will be published in 2 or 3 weeks time. Cheers, John. TWO RECENT PAPERS. John Latham, Keith Bower, Tom Choularton, Hugh

[geo] Marine Cloud Brightening pros cons. Alan Robock criteria

2013-06-03 Thread John Latham
temperatures in appropriate oceanic areas. Best Wishes, John. 10. John Latham, Keith Bower, Tom Choularton, Hugh Coe, Paul Connolly, Gary Cooper,Tim Craft, Jack Foster, Alan Gadian, Lee Galbraith, Hector Iacovides, David Johnston, Brian Launder, Brian Leslie, John Meyer, Armand Neukermans

RE: [geo] Re: Marine Cloud Brightening pros cons. Alan Robock criteria

2013-06-03 Thread John Latham
Hello again Alan, I agree entirely with your comments below, and look forward to learning the results of yr assessment. All Best,John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182

[geo] RE: Marine Cloud Brightening pros cons. Alan Robock criteria

2013-06-03 Thread John Latham
. John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK) 01928-730-002 http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/people/latham

[geo] SRM and droughts in the Sahel - rectification

2013-04-02 Thread John Latham
MCB, in principle, could also be used to address much smaller-scale issues, such as hurricane weakening and coral reef preservation: and could perhaps prove helpful regarding the prevention of polar sea-ice loss Best Wishes, John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307

RE: [geo] SRM and droughts in the Sahel - rectification

2013-04-02 Thread John Latham
Hello Oliver, Thank you for the correction. Apologies! I must have muddled-up the authorships of the various papers. All Best Wishes from yr semi-senile friend,John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha

[geo] Weather Climate Control via Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB)

2013-03-29 Thread John Latham
Temperature Stabilization via Controlled Albedo Enhancement of Low-level Maritime Clouds. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 366, 3969-3987,doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0137. John Latham, Keith Bower, Tom Choularton, Hugh Coe, Paul Connolly, Gary Cooper,Tim Craft, Jack Foster, Alan Gadian, Lee Galbraith, Hector

RE: [geo] pre-print of forth-coming paper: Svoboda, T and Irvine, PJ, Ethical and Technical Challenges in Compensating for Harm Due to Solar RadiationManagement Geoengineering

2013-02-21 Thread John Latham
-stage field test of MCB [which may never be conducted]. It would last for several weeks and be conducted over an oceanic area of about 100km x 100km. John Latham, Keith Bower, Tom Choularton, Hugh Coe, Paul Connolly, Gary Cooper,Tim Craft, Jack Foster, Alan Gadian, Lee Galbraith, Hector Iacovides

RE: [geo] pre-print of forth-coming paper: Svoboda, T and Irvine, PJ, Ethical and Technical Challenges in Compensating for Harm Due to Solar RadiationManagement Geoengineering

2013-02-20 Thread John Latham
. It behoves us therefore to become more enlightened re seeding patterns. Cheers,John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882

[geo] Re: Strategic incentives for climate geoengineering coalitions to exclude broad participation (new paper)

2013-02-20 Thread John Latham
, John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK) 01928-730-002 http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/people/latham

[geo] Brief Summary Marine Geoengineering Techniques - MVB points

2013-02-18 Thread John Latham
...@ucar.edu Papers relevant to the above points are listed below:- Philip J Rasch, John Latham Chih-Chieh (Jack) Chen, Geoengineering by cloud seeding: influence on sea ice and climate system. Environ. Res. Lett. 4 (2009) 045112 (8pp) doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045112 John Latham

RE: [geo] How will geoengineers address the statements of the AMS, WMO, and NRC on Weather Modification?

2012-12-27 Thread John Latham
Hello Jim, In the case of Marine Cloud Brightening, the sprayed material to enhance cloud albedo is seawater. The energy for spraying, guiding the spray-ships etc comes from the wind. Cheers, John (Latham) John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat

RE: [geo] Hurricane weakening via Marine Cloud Brightening MCB

2012-12-08 Thread John Latham
$100M per year. Any suggestions as to how to procure the required support would be most welcome. Best Wishes, John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429

[geo] RE: X ray cloud seeding?

2012-12-07 Thread John Latham
and therefore droplet number concentration and cloud albedo in existing clouds. . This is the principle of cloud brightening. Not creating clouds, but brightening existing ones! All Best, John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu

RE: [geo] Hurricane weakening via Marine Cloud Brightening MCB

2012-12-07 Thread John Latham
Many Thanks, Mike. Interesting! Should certainly be looked in to. All Best, John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724

[geo] Localisation Geoengineering Could Be Essential to Reducing the Risk of Climate Change | MIT Technology Review

2012-10-27 Thread John Latham
the strength of hurricanes (and the associated damage) by cooling the surface waters in regions where hurricanes spawn.We have just published a paper on this topic:- John Latham, Ben Parkes, Alan Gadian,Stephen Salter, 2012. Weakening of Hurricanes via Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB), Atmospheric

[geo] Guardian articles on geo-engineering

2012-10-12 Thread John Latham
To:- [kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu];[andrew.lock...@gmail.com];[j...@noc.soton.ac.uk];[rea...@guardian.co.uk];[john.vi...@guardian.co.uk];[chris.elli...@guardian.co.uk];[david_ke...@harvard.edu];[geoengineering@googlegroups.com] From:- John Latham [lat...@ucar.edu] 12/10/12 To The Guardian

[geo]

2012-09-29 Thread John Latham
lat...@ucar.edu John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK) 01928-730-002 http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/people/latham -- You

[geo] Ken Caldeira - Yale interview. Response

2012-09-29 Thread John Latham
the concomitant demise of billions of other people who are not in a position to influence their own future. Best Wishes,John lat...@ucar.edu John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US

[geo] MCB paper

2012-08-09 Thread John Latham
Hello Andrew, I hope you dont mind my checking with you as to whether you kindly sent out to Google-group members the pdf I sent to you of our Phil Trans Roy Soc MCB paper. I feel sure that you did, but I've had no reaction and I dont seem to have recd a copy. All Best Wishes, John. John

RE: [geo] Good popsci article on key SRM facilitator tech

2012-04-27 Thread John Latham
supported SRM idea. It can easily handle having a few neighbours. You are of course not the only one who doesnt make this distiction. All Best Wishes, John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work

RE: [geo] Ethics of Geoengineering (anything new?)

2012-04-06 Thread John Latham
to be important or valid, which could profitably be addressed now. I do not know the answer to this question. All Best Wishes, John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182

[geo] RE: Rough sketch of a small-scale tropospheric aerosol program

2012-03-22 Thread John Latham
Hello David, I'm in strong agreement with the basic content and spirit of your letter below. However, it would help me to know what you regard as some serious disadvantages of MCB. All Best Wishes, John. . John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat

RE: [geo] Source on SRM causing warming - tropospheric health effects.

2012-03-19 Thread John Latham
, almost all of which would fall back into the oceans. All Best, John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK) 01928

RE: [geo] Re: We are top story on BBC environmental news

2012-03-18 Thread John Latham
programmes of research now, which means that we need immediately to obtain the required funding. [How, I dont know, I'm afraid]. All Best, John (Latham) John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work

RE: [geo] Re: We are top story on BBC environmental news

2012-03-18 Thread John Latham
bleaching. Should the work turn out to be potentially valuable, the required field-testing of the idea need only be on a small spatial scale. All Best, John (L). John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US

RE: [geo] tropospheric aerosol use

2012-03-16 Thread John Latham
. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK) 01928-730-002 http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/people/latham

RE: [geo] Ballistics - failure to distinguish

2012-03-14 Thread John Latham
at this point, but this lack of distinction has been made recently by others, too. Good luck with yr poster. All Best, John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429

RE: [geo] Ballistics - failure to distinguish

2012-03-14 Thread John Latham
Hello All, Please see below message from Roger Angel All Best John (Latham) Hello Roger, I've sent on yr message (below), as requested, to: [geoengineering@googlegroups.com] Good to hear from you

[geo] Electromagnetic Forced Precipitation.

2011-12-30 Thread John Latham
and comprehensive peer review. Happy New Year!, John. {lat...@ucar.edu} John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK

RE: [geo] RE: Aerosol engineers: Intergenerational criminals?

2011-12-08 Thread John Latham
Hello Steve, Thank you for your sensitive comments. I look fwd to reading yr papers as soon as my recovery from eye surgery is a little more advanced. All Best Wishes, John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha

[geo] RE: Aerosol engineers: Intergenerational criminals?

2011-12-06 Thread John Latham
countries, have created. Best Wishes, John Latham lat...@ucar.edu John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK) 01928-730

RE: [geo] Thunder and lightning - ja

2011-12-05 Thread John Latham
development. Cheers,John. lat...@ucar.edu John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK) 01928-730-002 http

RE: [geo] GEOENGINEERING IMPLICATIONS: Adapting to Climate Change - Issue 19

2011-09-01 Thread John Latham
Hello Albert, Stephen Salter has done a great deal of worl on this! Cheers,John. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724

Cloud Brightening:[geo] Geoengineering at EGU 2011, April 3-8

2011-03-10 Thread John Latham
group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. -- John Latham lat...@ucar.edu

Re: [geo] Can solar radiation management be tested? Cloud whitening - More!

2010-09-28 Thread John Latham
Brunswick, NJ 08901 rob...@envsci.rutgers.edu http://www.envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock/ Sent from my iPhone. +1-732-881-1610 On Sep 27, 2010, at 11:44 PM, John Latham john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: Hello Alan and colleagues, I agree with you, Alan, that mounting a comprehensive

Re: [geo] Can solar radiation management be tested?

2010-09-27 Thread John Latham
this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. -- John Latham lat...@ucar.edu john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel. 303-444-2429 (H) 303-497-8182 (W) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups geoengineering group. To post

Re: [geo] SEA ICE LOSS STUNS SCIENTISTS - open letter to John Holdren

2010-07-12 Thread John Latham
, send email to geoengineer...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. -- John Latham lat...@ucar.edu john.latha

[geo] Impact of cloud brightening on rainfall over land: Science News geoengineering story

2010-05-30 Thread John Latham
...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. -- John Latham lat...@ucar.edu john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel. 303-444-2429 (H) 303-497-8182 (W) Links: -- [1] http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/%7Eshs -- You received

Re: [geo] Polar Sea-Ice Maintenance - SRM time-frames

2010-02-12 Thread John Latham
with aerosols would be be started this year, to at least to establish an engineering solution that could be quickly scaled up. Cheers, John --- John Latham wrote: * * * * To:- geoengineering@googlegroups.com,climateintervent...@googlegroups.com From:- john latham lat...@ucar.edu

[geo] Nathan Myhrvold argues for geoengineering: two schemes better than one?

2009-12-27 Thread John Latham
geoengineering group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineer...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. -- John Latham lat

[geo] Rasch Latham Chen paper on Cloud Whitening polar Ice Cover etc

2009-12-18 Thread John Latham
To:- geoengineering geoengineering@googlegroups.com Hello All, A paper Geo-engineering by cloud seeding: influence on sea-ice and climate system by Phil Rasch, John Latham Jack Chen has just been published online in the geo-eng special issue of Environ. Res. Lett. 4 (2009) 045112

[geo] Re: cloud seeding - need for research

2009-12-16 Thread John Latham
/geoengineering?hl=en. -- John Latham lat...@ucar.edu john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel. 303-444-2429 (H) 303-497-8182 (W) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups geoengineering group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineer

Re: [geo] Re: cloud seeding - need for research - ja

2009-12-16 Thread John Latham
of storms depositing snow on Greenland (or Antarctica, etc.) has not, to my knowledge, been looked at at all. Mike On 12/16/09 4:00 AM, John Latham john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: Hello Neil, Andrew et al. Cloud seeding (principally to make rain) has had a long and highly chequered

RE: [geo] Greenland ice sheet - tipping in progress

2009-11-18 Thread John Latham
Hanna'; 'R.D. Schuiling'; John Latham; Geoengineering; P. Wadhams; Mark Serreze Subject: Re: [geo] Greenland ice sheet - tipping in progress Hi Oliver, I think we should all be extremely alarmed by what Albert has said!! So a plan of action is urgently needed. I've been talking about

[geo] Re: [clim] Yet another positive feedback - ja

2009-07-27 Thread John Latham
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[geo] Re: Pros and Cons of SRM geoengineering more widely

2009-07-21 Thread John Latham
://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2009/pr20090604.html [3] Geoengineering seminar at the House of Commons, 15th July 2009. -- John Latham lat...@ucar.edu john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel. 303-444-2429 (H) 303-497-8182 (W

[geo] Comments on Mike MacCracken article cloud albedo scheme

2009-06-17 Thread John Latham
of the major World Bank report to be issued on Sustainability and Climate Change. Best, Mike MacCracken -- John Latham lat...@ucar.edu john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel. 303-444-2429 (H) 303-497-8182 (W) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[geo] Re: Just in Time for Hurricane Season

2009-06-13 Thread John Latham
the center of the hurricane, the change in wind speed would be multiplied according to conservation of momentum just as the wind speed itself is. -- John Latham lat...@ucar.edu john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel. 303-444-2429 (H) 303-497-8182 (W

[geo] Re: Just in Time for Hurricane Season

2009-06-13 Thread John Latham
the center of the hurricane, the change in wind speed would be multiplied according to conservation of momentum just as the wind speed itself is. -- John Latham lat...@ucar.edu john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel. 303-444-2429 (H) 303-497-8182 (W

[geo] Re: stopping hurricanes

2009-05-05 Thread John Latham
for Katrina: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/hurricane-katrina-claims-47010702 It is possible that Stephen Salter and John Latham have already proposed this application for their marine cloud brightening technique, involving the spraying of seawater into the atmosphere. Cheers

[geo] Re: stopping hurricanes

2009-05-05 Thread John Latham
with a modicum of physics. Cheers, John. Quoting Andrew Lockley andrew.lock...@gmail.com: Yep, but only lightening storms become hurricanes. You have to zap them when they're tiny wee things. A 2009/5/5 John Latham john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Hello Andrew, The fraction of hurricane

[geo] Other aerosol scheme: John Holdren puts geoengineering on the table

2009-04-09 Thread John Latham
. - Kelly Wanser br -- John Latham lat...@ucar.edu john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel. 303-444-2429 (H) 303-497-8182 (W) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups geoengineering

[geo] Cloud Seeding - State-manufactured snowfall closes 12 highways

2009-02-20 Thread John Latham
linking the capital with Shenyang, capital of the northeastern Liaoning province (Nick Macfie, Reuters http://in.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idINTRE51I10X20090219 , Feb. 19). -- John Latham lat...@ucar.edu john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel. 303-444-2429 (H) 303-497

[geo] Ice-9: Cloud Seeding - State-manufactured snowfall closes 12 highways

2009-02-20 Thread John Latham
...@nrdc.org: not to be confused with Kurt Vonnegut's ice-nine From: John Latham [mailto:john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 2:25 PM To: Hawkins, Dave Cc: geoengineering Subject: Cloud Seeding - State-manufactured snowfall closes 12

[geo] Re: Badgering Geoengineering - cloud seeding

2009-01-25 Thread John Latham
made or not made in the original posting. Worthwhile reading. I note however, that no one has taken issue with the statement made that John Latham and others are doing experiments with cloud seeding off the coast of Chile. Are such experiments in progress, planned or was this just

[geo] Re: REGARDING DETERIORATION OF GEOENGINEERING GOOGLEGROUP

2008-12-19 Thread John Latham
Hello Ken, Googlegroup has been immensely valuable ever since its inception, which was entirely due to you. I totally understand your current frustration. But it'd be a major loss if it ceased, and without you it would be sorely diminished. So please adopt Option 1. Hopefully, after an

[geo] Power of Words: science technology of climate cooling ???

2008-11-25 Thread John Latham
Hello John, Ken et al., I've always liked climate restoration because - though we'll never achieve it precisely - it's what we're seeking, and is much less likely to scare the pants off the public than the imperious geo-engineering. But when we're trying to be as exact as possible my

[geo] Re: Power of Words: science technology of climate cooling ???

2008-11-25 Thread John Latham
appropriate term might well be impact intervention--save geoengineering, climate restoration, and global temperature stabilisation for the efforts (e.g., by global sulfate injection, mirrors in space, etc.) to limit global climate change. Mike MacCracken On 11/25/08 10:26 AM, John Latham [EMAIL

[geo] Re: Parliament next monday (typos corrected)

2008-11-12 Thread John Latham
Ken, Please keep walking the tightrope, despite the crosswinds. It's crucially important that you do. Cheers, John. Quoting Ken Caldeira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: John, In attempting to move ahead politically, it is neither necessary nor desirable that we speak with a unified voice. I

[geo] Re: Father of Sulfate Aerosols Idea Says Its Not His Baby

2008-10-12 Thread John Latham
Hello All, Thanks again to Alvia for unearthing another thought-provoking article. The following will (I hope) already be known to most readers of this blog, but in case there are interested others I'd like to correct some of the statements made in the article regarding our