Another powerful article on SRM by a high-level global influencer (8 emails 9/5/2024 to 9/8/2024)
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Another powerful article on SRM by a high-level global influencerSep 5 2024 7:33AM - Garrity, Dennis (ICRAF)
Geoengineering is worth the risk — provided we regulate it properly
By Pascal Lamy, Chair, Climate Overshoot Commission
Financial Times, Sept 2 2024
Read the full article at: https://on.ft.com/4dJJmOT
Sep 6 2024 9:28PM - Garrity, Dennis (ICRAF)
Some members have been unable to read this article due to a paywall. The attached file contains a copy of the article. It is a powerful tool in our advocacy arsenal. Thanks.
Sep 6 2024 10:18PM - Oswald Petersen
Thanks Dennis. Great article. Somebody should inform Pascal Lamy that SRM it not the only alternative to ERA…
Sep 7 2024 2:17PM - Michael MacCracken
Hi Dennis--Problem is he still lists supposed shortcomings that have been researched and generally dismissed, namely acid rain and ozone depletion. The termination shock issue would mainly result if emissions are not reduced while SRM is used to take temperatures down a good bit from where they are. And on changes in weather patterns, compared to what--the question is by how much or how little does the range of weather that would be induced compared to what has been experienced, much less to what we are headed for--this comparing of central values rather than the ranges of conditions is really a simplification that is likely quite misleading to real consideration of the issue.
So, the article is better, but in my view pretty far from a fully clear-eyed presentation of the issue to be considered.
Best, Mike
Sep 7 2024 2:47PM - H simmens
Mike,
In addition to the concerns you express the article essentially introduces a couple of positions and conditions that are all but Poison Pills that negate the mostly otherwise positive statements in the article.
Reflecting not surprisingly the position of the Overshoot Commission that he chairs he calls for a moratorium to be adopted by every country on large scale experimentation and deployment.
This leaves an enormous opening for anti cooling activists to lobby governments all over the world to shut down DCC experimentation.
Imagine how difficult if not impossible it would be to go back to the governments that enacted moratoria asking them to lift their moratoria at some unspecified date in the future.
This moratorium language in my judgment would absolutely kill any organized efforts to advance DCC.
Given what we know of the sharp differences of opinion amongst the Overshoot Commissioners I can only assume that the inclusion of the moratorium language was a necessary compromise to get those commission members on board who may not have even wanted to see anything positive said about DCC.
In addition by labeling it as a ‘last resort’ rather than articulating that the safest and most effective portfolio of DCC needs to be developed and deployed he reinforces the almost universal perception that the world is nowhere near the point of having to face the need to deploy DCC.
It is for these and other reasons why so many of us were so terribly disappointed by the report issued last fall by the Overshoot Commission.
Herb
Herb Simmens
Author of A Climate Vocabulary of the Future
“A SciencePoem and an Inspiration.” Kim Stanley Robinson
@herbsimmens
HerbSimmens.com
Sep 7 2024 4:21PM - Michael MacCracken
Hi Herb--
Very much agreed.
Mike
Sep 8 2024 1:19AM - daleanne bourjaily
Dear all,
If any of you want to contact Pascal Lamy about his error on termination shock or other points in his SRM article you can reach him through his personal assistent. Here is her contact information.
Sacha COURTIAL, Personal Assistant:
courtial@delorsinstitute.eu
Groet,
DaleAnne
Op do 5 sep 2024 13:33 schreef Garrity, Dennis (ICRAF) :
Geoengineeringis worth the risk — provided we regulate it properly
By Pascal Lamy, Chair, Climate Overshoot Commission
Financial Times, Sept 2 2024
Read the full article at: https://on.ft.com/4dJJmOT
Sep 8 2024 12:00PM - Karen Juster Hecht
Thanks Dennis, indeed, this is a good short article. Here is the direct Newsweek link in case people have trouble getting it through LinkedIn.
Best,
Karen
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