RE: [geo] World Bank report highlights necessity of (BE)CCS

2015-06-16 Thread Robert H. Socolow
Mike, John, Greg,…There must be many runs of GCMs where the input is an emissions trajectory that simply drops to zero (gradually or suddenly). Yet, my perception is that the experts are unsure of what will ensue in the oceans over the following few decades. (Assumptions are needed about the

Re: [geo] A closer look at the flawed studies behind policies used to promote 'low-carbon' biofuels | University of Michigan News

2015-02-12 Thread Robert H. Socolow
Many second-growth forests are still increasing their carbon stocks. I think that's the argument being made. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 11, 2015, at 7:38 PM, David desJardins da...@desjardins.org wrote: forest has to be carbon-balanced, it isn't removing net carbon from the atmosphere

RE: [geo] Haida readying for second round of iron dumping in ocean - News - Times Colonist

2013-04-28 Thread Robert H. Socolow
Is there any way for this group to back up and deal with the George experiment, setting aside for a day or so all visceral feelings about ETC? Does the George experiment produce its own visceral feelings in any of you? It does in me. Geoengineering has no future if it is not embedded in

RE: [geo] Is atmospheric carbon dioxide removal a game changer for climate change mitigation? Kriegler et al | Climatic Change

2013-04-14 Thread Robert H. Socolow
Andrew: I very much appreciate your management of the geoengineering google group. Let me remove all mystery regarding the Special Issue on CDR in Climatic Change. This special issue was edited by Massimo Tavoni (FEEM, Milan) and me. It has ten papers. A paper version of the special issue

RE: [geo] Is atmospheric carbon dioxide removal a game changer for climate change mitigation? Kriegler et al | Climatic Change

2013-04-14 Thread Robert H. Socolow
Ron: Please do not copy this long list in any further memo. These are people whose emails are flooded already. I will reply to you privately. Rob From: rongretlar...@comcast.net [mailto:rongretlar...@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 1:32 PM To: Robert H. Socolow; geoengineering Cc

RE: [geo] CDR money in DE-FOA-0000785?

2013-03-20 Thread Robert H. Socolow
Come on, Ken and others: The logic depends on the baseline. If one's baseline is that the oil industry will be producing in the vicinity of 80 million barrels per day (mbd) of oil -- the current value -- for several decades, then the comparison is between alternate ways of doing this. Using

RE: [geo] 400 ppm and rising

2012-06-05 Thread Robert H. Socolow
Mike, Stephen, and others: Evidently, regarding the new 400 ppm arctic readings, this group (including me) needs help. Here's what I think I understand, followed by what I don't understand. Every year for several decades, in April and May, the concentration of CO2 at Point Barrows, Alaska,

Re: [geo] Re: geoengineers as God(s)?

2012-04-25 Thread Robert H. Socolow
Instead of being defensive, consider that to many people the whole activity is playing God. The distinction between researchers and decisionmakers is second order. From: Josh Horton [mailto:joshuahorton...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 02:52 PM To: geoengineering@googlegroups.com

RE: [geo] Re: Lindzen presents skeptics' case to UK House of Commons

2012-03-02 Thread Robert H. Socolow
relating smoking to health problems, which was closely analogous with his views of climate data. Kerr's article, Greenhouse skeptic out in cold. was published in Science 246.4934 (1989): 1118+ On Mar 1, 4:01 am, Robert H. Socolow soco...@princeton.edu wrote: Might it not be fair to expect

Re: [geo] Lindzen presents skeptics' case to UK House of Commons

2012-03-01 Thread Robert H. Socolow
Might it not be fair to expect the public to reject Dick Lindzen's testimony, in the absence of a direct refutation of his analysis? Is it really enough to assert that he has been wrong before? Lindzen starts from sea surface temperatures and satellite measurements of radiation and infers that

[geo] RE: New green, abiotic CO2 capture

2011-09-25 Thread Robert H. Socolow
Was it captured colorimetrically to see how green it was? -Original Message- From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com [mailto:geoengineering@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rau, Greg Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 12:16 AM To: geoengineering@googlegroups.com Subject: [geo] New green,