Posted on 09/01/2009 10:11:19 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Forests of artificial trees, giant space mirrors and sailing ships that create clouds may offer the only hope of saving the world from dangerous climate change, Britain's leading scientists said today.
A report by the Royal Society - Britain's most prestigious science body - said global engineering projects that suck carbon dioxide out of the air or reflect the sun's rays into space had 'useful potential' as a weapon against global warming.
But the authors added that risky and unproven attempts to meddle with the climate could have 'catastrophic consequences for mankind' if they were used irresponsibly and that the priority was to cut carbon dioxide emissions.The report is the first major study into geo-engineering - the deliberate manipulation of the Earth's atmosphere, ocean and climate to reduce the impact of global warming. Engineers have proposed dozens of schemes to tackle climate change over the last few years.
Some try to cool the Earth by reflecting solar radiation back into space, others reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the air.Prof John Shepherd, who led the Royal Society geo-engineering working group, said: 'It is an unpalatable truth that unless we can succeed in greatly reducing carbon dioxide emissions we are heading for a very uncomfortable and challenging climate future, and geo-engineering will be the only option left to limit further temperature increases.
'Our research found that some geo-engineering techniques could have serious unintended and detrimental effects on many people and ecosystems - yet we are still failing to take the only action that will prevent us from having to rely on them.
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bollocks!
What’s the carbon footprint from making those artifical forests?
Keep these cap and tax, ecodummies away from normal people who haven't lost their ability to reason.
Oh! A solution to save us from ourselves... thank you! THANK YOU!! /s
And while these geniuses’ heads are in the clouds and lost among the treetops, they utterly fail to see the forest beneath, in which their nation is dying.
Or, maybe a simple lack of sunspots will handle it for us.
Newton, Boyle, Wren, Hooke are rolling in their respective graves. We should petition the British government to rename it the Royal Political Society - that's what it has become.
More La La land crap
Ya know, someday one of these idiots is going to really screw up the global climate.
Sounds like these “scientists” are threatening us.
How about this? You don’t build your cloud ships and we won’t blow them up.
These words, taken from the article, should have been the title of the article.
I thought the British were just going to release murderers until the world resembled the garden of Eden.
A couple years ago, some knothead came up with the idea of launching 16 billion reflective Frisbees into the air to block the sun’s rays and stop global warming. I wish they’d done it; I’d have loved to have seen peoples’ reactions to Frisbees falling out of the sky.....
Stupid commies. When will they ever learn.
What’s wrong with real forests?
One suggestion for “warming” the cooling planet was melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot.
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