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John Nissen’s Talk Bullet Points for AbSciCon 2022  2022-05-09 (version 1) Introduction to my talk: I don’t expect you to believe my thesis, because it predicts that the search for extra-terrestrial life will be fruitless! However my thesis raises some extraordinary conjectures about our own existence as intelligent, talking hominids; so you might want toContinue reading “John Nissen: Talk Bullet Points for Astrobiology Conf, May 2022”

Abstract for AbSciCon 2022 The theory of an extremely rare Earth is proposed to explain the observed extraordinary sophistication of the operation of the Earth System (ES) and the maintenance of this operation for four billion years with eventual emergency of human civilisation.   The theory is based on the assumptions (i) that the universeContinue reading “John Nissen: Abstract for Astrobiology Conference, May 2022”

2022-05-04 Email to Noam Chomsky Dear Noam, I have been doing a thought experiment to determine the implications of an infinite universe on the rarity of civilised life in the universe, to present to an upcoming conference on astrobiology.   My thesis is that there have been a number of astonishing flukes to get usContinue reading “John Nissen: Email to Noam Chomsky”

Rebuttal of the essay Solar geoengineering: The case for an international non-use agreement by Biermann et al https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.754 Solar geoengineering: The case for an international non-use agreement Frank Biermann, Jeroen Oomen, Aarti Gupta, Saleem H. Ali, Ken Conca, Maarten A. Hajer, Prakash Kashwan, Louis J. Kotzé, Melissa Leach, Dirk Messner, Chukwumerije Okereke, Åsa Persson, Janez Potočnik, DavidContinue reading “Robert Tulip: Solar Geoengineering”

Comment on National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) 2021. A Research Strategy for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press https://doi.org/10.17226/26278 27 December 2021 This NASEM report is immensely important as a public statement of current scientific consensus on the potential of ocean-based carbon dioxide removal to help stabiliseContinue reading “Robert Tulip: Comment on NASEM”

The following is in response to The Economist’s Facebook video report https://www.booktalk.org/post178043.html#p178043 17 November 2021 The Economist Magazine published a positive review of Glasgow, at https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist/videos/215377267393604/ To which I commented with the following rather disgruntled response. In this summary, Catherine Brahic from The Economist refers to Glasgow as “Paris Plus”. That is the most naively roseContinue reading “Robert Tulip: Comment on Glasgow”

Letter sent to The Guardian and the NY Times on October 17, 2021 17 October 2021 We can still avert climate disaster Dear editor, Bill McKibben writes: “We’ve been very lucky.  We can still avert climate disaster” (Guardian 16th October).  We are indeed heading towards climate disaster with increasingly extreme weather events occurring worldwide.  PeopleContinue reading “John Nissen: Letter to the Editors at The Guardian and New York Times (not published)”

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By PARAG KHANNA & MICHAEL FERRARI | IDEAS | 09.20.2020 09:00 AM Altering Earth’s geophysical environment is a moon shot—and it will be the only way to reverse the damage done. It’s time to take it more seriously. WIRED OPINION – ABOUT Parag Khanna is the author of Connectography (2016) and The Future is Asian (2019). Michael Ferrari is managing partner at AtlasContinue reading “WIRED: Geoengineering Is the Only Solution to Our Climate Calamities”