date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:10:42 -0700
from: Tom Wigley <wigley@ucar.edu>
subject: [Fwd: [geo] IMechE report: Adapting to the inevitable?]
to: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>

   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







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