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, if you meant that Cloud Brightening doesn't resolve ocean acidification I'd well agree, but neither will Emissions Control I don't understand that bit. If we stop emitting CO2 then ocean acidification is not going to get a whole lot worse, beyond the lag in the system. I'd say emission control is...

From the Guardian: "US open to Russian Proposal . . ." "The White House gave a cautious welcome on Monday to a Russian proposal for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons, opening up the first real chance of a political settlement to the crisis since hundreds of civilians died in an ...

Biff and Candy - I take it you get the insufficiency of EC + RC in failing to change the trajectory via global crop failure towards the feedbacks running amok, but it looks as if your outlook doesn't include the potentially vital impact of AR on the negotiation of those two by themselves. "A cr...

Cloud Brightening is the most promising option I've seen, What does that do for ocean acidification other than allow us to make it even worse! :roll: Biff - your logic in assuming that lofting a mist of seawater to the lower troposphere would worsen ocean acidification - would be hard to follow if ...

I would be concerned about pumping huge quantities of sea water into the air in case it came down on land. Certain parts of the world have enough trouble with saline irrigation water without adding saline rain to their problems, Lewis. Kenneal - Professors Salter and Latham are not looking at pumpi...

Depends on the type of Geo-E. Mass treeplanting, or char burial, are Geo-E I don't have a problem with. Mirrors and cloudseeding etc are just silly. Char burial is also essential for the long term rescue and fertility of our soils. Even more reason to start burying now. Not that many modern agronom...

Yes, quite possible if - amongst other things - we can prevent the global average temperature rising. So that's a no then. :lol: (nods) Not a chance - by a global climate treaty solely on rapid feasible CO2e Emissions Control of say near-zero by 2050. With the loss of fossil sulphate emissions and ...

Tamino at Open Mind has a fine technical post up on the influence of ENSO (El Nino/Southern Oscillation) and its influence in diverting a little more energy from the atmosphere into the sea than usual. Quote "As the graph labelled “POGA-H minus HIST” shows, the influence of natural variation, a...

In order to ignore a description of the vehicles and equipment used to launch a Faluq 2 missile, it seems you're trying to conflate an IRA mortar-bomb, that flew less than 300 yards and missed a house, with the 12 Faluq 2 missiles that flew to targets spread across more than 10 miles, with each hitt...

As the text on Brown Moses makes clear Eliot Higgins is not a weapons expert. Eliot Higgins gets all his data from YouTube videos. Elliot is expert enough that the professionals in the field take his site seriously as a collection point for info on munitions used in the conflict, and are willing to...

I wonder whether the 'ignition' assessment is rather understating the degree of the ongoing climatic destabilization of societies ?

People watching their children getting hungry and failing to thrive is one hell of a fuel for outspoken determined dissent in its own right.

Regards,

Lewis

Brown Moses impartial and forensic analysis of film and text is worth seeing in this regard. http://brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk/ Why notate the body of a rocket with red or black markings when the rocket is designed to have multiple payloads? What you do is make very sure you label the warhead. The ...

Fifth column - if the ME oil output was disrupted enough to interfere with EU supplies, what would prevent us from phoning some friends in Venezuela, Mexico and Canada and simply outbidding the US for the volume it imports ? At that point, US production would itself be worth the new market price, me...

Here's a long article by William Polk on the situation in Syria, Peter. Yes, And for all I respect the input of Billhook, I think he should read this. I still see no reason why the Assad regime would carry out a Sarin attack in disputed territory, and numerous reasons why the rebels would do so. I ...

Good article by Simon Tisdal in the Guardian at http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/03/syria-obama-risks-pushed-prolonged-military-campaign on the diverse and cumulative risks of an extended version of a missile assault, with the aim of doing what would best be achieved by the non-jiha...