tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14798090.post5476432570271607005..comments2024-03-27T06:42:31.956+00:00Comments on Mark Brinkley (aka House 2.0): Should we engineer the climate?Mark Brinkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03473684038478246288noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14798090.post-49157281475841514522013-05-18T16:48:21.818+01:002013-05-18T16:48:21.818+01:00Mark, it's not necessary to return to hunter-g...Mark, it's not necessary to return to hunter-gatherer, becvause it's not necessary to reduce the environmental damage we (and all animals) cause, to zero. We only need to reduce it to what the planet can naturally re-process. The planet is a homeostatic system, or organism, as we ourselves are, or as our immune system is. Homeostatic systems have a definite capacity to handle whatever'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14798090.post-84878108413564397622013-05-18T09:06:25.534+01:002013-05-18T09:06:25.534+01:00With measures like this I think everyone would hav...With measures like this I think everyone would have to accept there would likely be unintended consequences (there usually are) and accept that the risk of doing nothing is greater than the risk of making changes.<br /><br />I think it's worth people looking at stuff like this, but I don't know how everyone would agree on it and who would pay for it (unless there was a widespread belief Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033674814953833036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14798090.post-48933297626946387962013-05-18T09:01:26.540+01:002013-05-18T09:01:26.540+01:00Combating the urban heat island in cities is defin...Combating the urban heat island in cities is definitely important for the environment, the way things are going in London we could end up with a vicious circle where increasing use of air con makes the problems worse locally and also impacts globally. <br /><br />Sensible environmentally concious design (such as cool roofs, good natural ventilation, sun louvres & growing plants up south Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033674814953833036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14798090.post-38390022315515980942013-05-17T15:59:13.823+01:002013-05-17T15:59:13.823+01:00Surely it's impossible to accurately map the e...Surely it's impossible to accurately map the effects of tampering so drastically with such an acutely balanced natural process? <br /><br />It's impossible to comprehend the complexity of these processes sometimes, I worry it wouldn't be so straight forward...Harry Barns @ PF Estateshttp://www.propertyfranchise.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14798090.post-46278895739067602532013-05-17T07:17:44.365+01:002013-05-17T07:17:44.365+01:00Tom,
Your point is well made. But you could argue...Tom,<br /><br />Your point is well made. But you could argue that we started to mess with the planet when we took up agriculture after the last ice age and that only a return to hunter gathering is consistent with a balanced planet. That's not going to happen (or maybe it will?). Mark Brinkleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03473684038478246288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14798090.post-14508338393594359502013-05-17T07:11:50.757+01:002013-05-17T07:11:50.757+01:00Ted, I realise I didn't answer your original p...Ted, I realise I didn't answer your original point on where Hugh's research can be viewed in more detail. Short answer is I have no idea, but you can contact Hugh directly to find out. He did set his talk in context of work carried out by the Royal Society which looked at a range of mitigation and sequestration projects which might be undertaken, and made assessments of each in terms of Mark Brinkleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03473684038478246288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14798090.post-53714913371094390962013-05-16T20:44:27.708+01:002013-05-16T20:44:27.708+01:00@Mark: I realise the limitations of the Cool Roof ...@Mark: I realise the limitations of the Cool Roof concept in terms of scale but I see it as an easy solution that works in cities to help reduce the heat island effect, most likely in conjuction with urban tree planting. The advantages are that increasingly people are moving to live in cities and it will have a disproportionate impact if it also reduces Air-Con load by reducing the amibent Ted Lynchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14798090.post-22798042498222302212013-05-16T11:36:32.634+01:002013-05-16T11:36:32.634+01:00How about, instead, coming to regard everything th...How about, instead, coming to regard everything that humans make (or do) as an opportunity to actively assist the planet and its plants, 'nature' or whatever you call it, in cleaning up the still-accumulating mess that we humans have made. If we stopped tomorrow it would take the planet 1,000s or 10,000s of years to reprocess everything. We humans won't be able to wait that long - forAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14798090.post-75967948535196607912013-05-16T10:10:04.007+01:002013-05-16T10:10:04.007+01:00The cool roof or white painted roof was touched on...The cool roof or white painted roof was touched on as a possible mitigation strategy. The feeling is that it wouldn't actually make any meaningful difference. There simply aren't enough roofs in the world to make up for loss of ice around the poles.<br />Mark Brinkleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03473684038478246288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14798090.post-52593980543664600482013-05-16T10:04:30.686+01:002013-05-16T10:04:30.686+01:00Is there a direct link to Hugh's research on t...Is there a direct link to Hugh's research on this? The link above is a general one and I can't immediately see the relevant section.<br /><br />In general global-scale projects like this make me nervous due to the unknown interactions that have been pointed out and for the material to at least have the potential to impact cloud formation in potentially unexpected ways even when released Ted Lynchnoreply@blogger.com