date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:10:42 -0700 from: Tom Wigley subject: [Fwd: [geo] IMechE report: Adapting to the inevitable?] to: Phil Jones Phil, I haven't been able to download this report, just the press release. This says UEA helped. It looks like wolf-crying rubbish to me. Do you know anything about it? Hopefully UEA is not CRU. Tom. From: "John Nissen" To: "geoengineering" Cc: "Mark Lynas" , "Dr Tim Fox" , "Tim Lenton" Subject: [geo] IMechE report: Adapting to the inevitable? Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:35:56 -0000 Reply-To: jn@cloudworld.co.uk Sender: geoengineering@googlegroups.com We are heading for 1700 ppmv CO2, up to 8 degrees warming, and possibly 7 metres of sea level rise, according to the IMechE report, downloadable from: [1]http://www.imeche.org/media/press/ This would be catastrophic. Yet it completely neglects tipping points, such as the Arctic sea ice and methane release from frozen structures in the Arctic. And it ignores Antarctic contribution to sea level rise. So the situation is even worse than they say; and, with the Arctic sea ice retreating rapidly, the danger is imminent, rather than centuries ahead. But if we take the report at face value, this is surely a call for geoengineering if ever there was one. There's no way we can adapt to 8 degrees warming - we have to prevent it. The only way is through geoengineering. Cheers, John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---