An MIT Climate CoLab "End Global Warming & Climate Change Now"
Technology Solution Recommendation Proposal
Thank you for your considerable effort to combat climate change & promote clean energy tech. The situation does appear dire, suggesting its "all hands on deck" time - with your organization's shoulders at the wheel, it feels like we stand a fighting chance. As my wife & I live & work in Silicon Valley, she at Google, we were quite sobered by Al Gore's film, visit to our area & talk at Google on the topic. I decided I'd do everything I could as a public citizen to track the problem & seek the best solution, my father having been an original Kaiser Engineer, on various international engineering assignments raising me in the midst of typically geo-engineering scale projects.
Shortly after Gore's visit, many proposals popped up in our home theater on the channels of National Geographic, Scientific American, BBC, Science/Discovery et al, yet most seemed to risk unanticipated & potentially disastrous run-away ecological responses, for example to such schemes as launching massive oceanic plankton blooms or lowering planetary temperature via orbiting sunshades (e.g. recent slight temperature change in national forests now not preventing invasive beetle egg laying from hatching, resulting in an infestation killing off a hefty percentage of trees). Further, most proposals did nothing to remove the CO2 added since the Industrial Revolution, nor offered any tech for removal from various intractable sources such as bovine & vehicle emissions (a tiny scrubber on every motorcycle exhaust & both ends of every cow?), let alone garbage dump & ice cap melt exposed tundra emissions. Lastly, many proposals involve long lists of actions to be coordinated across many different agencies, while many others require profound changes to a country’s governmental, societal, technological & infrastructural dimensions, including requiring numerous turn-on-a-dime developments of new, un-time-tested technologies to be swapped in place of old.
Pretty much every proposal that came by got bounced - except one. Ever since it came out, it has proven resilient to essentially every issue, able to solve pretty much any & all challenges. Finding that it offered a simple & direct, safe & reliable method of getting the job done, as well as one that neither depended on, nor required the need to try to work with & coordinate the actions of, numerous other organizations, as well as did not depend on the successful outcome of other hundreds, if not thousands, of CO2 mitigation schemes, I wrote up a description of the tech, recommending it be applied to the problem, & sought ways to disseminate the proposal to sources where it would do the most good, in terms of getting it on the radar, high enough to rise above the din of "here's another 100 things to try", of policy makers & others who might recognize its value & actually be able to effect implementation. I've since submitted the proposal to the following:
• Project 10100: Google’s 10th Anniversary special project, described as a “call for ideas to change the world" (CNET)
• Citizen's Briefing Book: President-elect Obama's Open Government Change.gov website where people could "Share...ideas on any issue facing the new administration", followed after the election by an email, fax & snail-mailed version to Obama, the White House & then Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu
• Virgin Earth Challenge > Finalist: Recommendation of Lackners's tech when challenge 1st appeared; later, when finalists announced, Lackner placed
• MIT Center for Collective Intelligence Climate Colab: MIT's global repository for climate change solution proposal submissions, in the proposal sections "Geoengineering Workspace", "Harnessing the power of MIT alumni" & "Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape Workspace" (a collaboration of MIT Climate CoLab + UN Secretary-General’s COP21 Climate Resilience Initiative: Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape (A2R) (press release))
• Stanford Roundtable: Brought hard copies to the event
• United Nations, via UN Climate Summit 2014 > Participate (> Civil society organizations) Reps "Dan Shepard" <shepard@un.org> & "Daniel Thomas" <Daniel.thomas@un.org>, to…
•• UN Sustainable Development Summit 2015
•• UN COP21
•• Breakthrough Energy Coalition: Billionaire investors coalition, announced at COP21 by Bill Gates with Barack Obama, to fund CO2 mitigation & clean energy tech development
I thought the next best thing to try would be to email you of this CO2 mitigation technology, as it appears capable of truly "taking out" the CO2 issue, in the hopes that the proposal will be found effective & be elevated high enough on the radar of those who can actually make it happen.
If you do find the tech sound & effective, would you be up for helping me spread the word quickly & massively, if & as appropriate, by forwarding the email linking to this webpage to any available of your email distribution lists of partner organizations, membership, friends and/or perhaps a standing post in a prominent area of your website, in the spirit of resolving the potential dilemma of "paralysis of choice from there being so many things to try" by discerning a solution that effectively covers the bases & offers the clarity of decisive action in response to the question "If you had to choose one...".
Currently the latest primary version of the proposal is being hosted on the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence Climate Colab global repository for climate change solution proposal submissions, in the section "Geoengineering Workspace" as the submission titled "End Global Warming & Climate Change Now".
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide,
Regards,
Clifford J. Thompson
Climate Change Campaign
MIT Climate CoLab "End Climate Change Now" Proposal
Stanford Roundtable (submission)
UN Climate Summit (submission)
UN Sustainable Development Summit (submission)
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