Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 30, 2012 5:03:56 GMT -5
Dear Doctor Christy,
I have just watched the interview with you on the Polites TV (Citizens' TV) channel of Crete.
epanastasi-gr.blogspot.com/2012/08/blog-post_4058.html
Although you were asked questions about carbon dioxide, about the commercial exploitation of climate change, and so on, you were not asked anything about geoengineering proposals.
Last year the geoengineering advocate Paul Crutzen visited Cyprus and said this in an interview with the local press (my translation):
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER PAUL CRUTZEN ON OUR ISLAND
13TH February 2011
Paula Tsoni
Nobel Prize winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, pioneer in the study of climate change, was on our island this week as the guest of the Cyprus Institute.
In an exclusive interview with SIGMA and TODAY ON SUNDAY he declares that he is pessimistic about the future of the planet and reveals the theory he is studying as a last-ditch solution.
The Dutch scientist Paul Crutzen won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1995 for his study on ozone replacement. 15 years later, the chemicals that caused the hole in the ozone layer have been banned and the Nobel Prize winning scientist predicts that in fifty years the ozone layer will have recovered. The most serious threat to the planet today, he said to SIGMA during his brief stay on our island as the guest of the Cyprus Institute, is global warming.
"œIf we continue to burn fossil fuel, the problem will not be solved and there will be further deterioration. I have not seen any effective action that would practically reduce the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. If global warming continues, in fifteen years we will be obliged to resort to the last-ditch solution of artificial cooling of the planet through injections of sulphur into the stratosphere."
"œI hope that we will never need to implement this, but if the temperature increases more than two degrees Celsius on average, we will have to proceed with the experiment of sulphur injections. We will have to be careful because there may be side effects worse than the greenhouse phenomenon. Some studies indicate that sulphur emissions in the stratosphere will reduce ozone levels, allowing a greater amount of ultra-violet radiation to reach the surface of the earth," the Nobel Prize winning scientist said.
As for the future of the planet:
"œIt is very difficult to be optimistic, but negativism is no solution. If we act I will be very happy. However, at the moment that is not happening. But let's not give up," declared Mr. Crutzen.
(end of quotation)
Dr. Christy would you like to have been asked on the TV interview about your attitude to geoengineering proposals such as those of Paul Crutzen?
The climate scientist Tim Ball, whose ideas on anthropogenic climate change I understand to be similar to yours, says that he thinks Crutzen's Nobel Prize should be taken away for making insane proposals. Would you agree with Tim Ball's view?
Even if you would not agree, would you have welcomed being asked questions on geoengineering, and particularly "solar radiation management", in the television interview with you that I saw on Cretan TV?
Hoping to hear from you,
Wayne Hall
www.enouranois.gr
I have just watched the interview with you on the Polites TV (Citizens' TV) channel of Crete.
epanastasi-gr.blogspot.com/2012/08/blog-post_4058.html
Although you were asked questions about carbon dioxide, about the commercial exploitation of climate change, and so on, you were not asked anything about geoengineering proposals.
Last year the geoengineering advocate Paul Crutzen visited Cyprus and said this in an interview with the local press (my translation):
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER PAUL CRUTZEN ON OUR ISLAND
13TH February 2011
Paula Tsoni
Nobel Prize winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, pioneer in the study of climate change, was on our island this week as the guest of the Cyprus Institute.
In an exclusive interview with SIGMA and TODAY ON SUNDAY he declares that he is pessimistic about the future of the planet and reveals the theory he is studying as a last-ditch solution.
The Dutch scientist Paul Crutzen won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1995 for his study on ozone replacement. 15 years later, the chemicals that caused the hole in the ozone layer have been banned and the Nobel Prize winning scientist predicts that in fifty years the ozone layer will have recovered. The most serious threat to the planet today, he said to SIGMA during his brief stay on our island as the guest of the Cyprus Institute, is global warming.
"œIf we continue to burn fossil fuel, the problem will not be solved and there will be further deterioration. I have not seen any effective action that would practically reduce the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. If global warming continues, in fifteen years we will be obliged to resort to the last-ditch solution of artificial cooling of the planet through injections of sulphur into the stratosphere."
"œI hope that we will never need to implement this, but if the temperature increases more than two degrees Celsius on average, we will have to proceed with the experiment of sulphur injections. We will have to be careful because there may be side effects worse than the greenhouse phenomenon. Some studies indicate that sulphur emissions in the stratosphere will reduce ozone levels, allowing a greater amount of ultra-violet radiation to reach the surface of the earth," the Nobel Prize winning scientist said.
As for the future of the planet:
"œIt is very difficult to be optimistic, but negativism is no solution. If we act I will be very happy. However, at the moment that is not happening. But let's not give up," declared Mr. Crutzen.
(end of quotation)
Dr. Christy would you like to have been asked on the TV interview about your attitude to geoengineering proposals such as those of Paul Crutzen?
The climate scientist Tim Ball, whose ideas on anthropogenic climate change I understand to be similar to yours, says that he thinks Crutzen's Nobel Prize should be taken away for making insane proposals. Would you agree with Tim Ball's view?
Even if you would not agree, would you have welcomed being asked questions on geoengineering, and particularly "solar radiation management", in the television interview with you that I saw on Cretan TV?
Hoping to hear from you,
Wayne Hall
www.enouranois.gr