Internet gives us an unblinking look at ourselves and this is what we see.
A Peace offering, although it will be red meat to one side or the other.
Climate Engineering – What do the public think?
10 January 2014 Southampton, University of
Under embargo until 12 January 2014 18:00 GMT
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Lead author, Professor Malcolm Wright of Massey University, said: “Previous attempts to engage the public with climate engineering have been exploratory and small scale. In our study, we have drawn on commercial methods used to evaluate brands and new product concepts to develop a comparative approach for evaluating the public reaction to a variety of climate engineering concepts.”
The results show that the public has strong negative views towards climate engineering. Where there are positive reactions, they favour approaches that reduce carbon dioxide over those that reflected sunlight.
“It was a striking result and a very clear pattern,” said Professor Wright. “Interventions such as putting mirrors in space or fine particles into the stratosphere are not well received. More natural processes of cloud brightening or enhanced weathering are less likely to raise objections, but the public react best to creating biochar (making charcoal from vegetation to lock in CO2) or capturing carbon directly from the air.”
Nonetheless, even the most well regarded techniques still has a net negative perception.
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I like the part about Biochar.
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Seconded - can we agree to disagree and get on sticking bits of Correx / coroplast to our cars and just ignore this even when some muppet dredges it up ?
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4x8 sheets of Coroplast folded once lengthwise for US$8 at my local recycler.