Posted on 07/28/2013 5:34:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As you squeegee out your basement, replace your blown-off roof tiles, bury your heat-withered tomato crop and think about moving to a house on higher ground, you will be forgiven if you want to step out onto the street, tilt your head toward those odd-shaped clouds massing on the horizon, and scream, “Fix it!
And that might be a reasonable request. The weather is broken. To some degree, this is because we broke it: While it is foolish to link any individual extreme-weather event to the larger climate, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the growing frequency and intensity of windstorms, floods, hurricanes and extremes of heat and cold is a consequence of higher levels of weather-system volatility related to a warming trend caused in part by human-generated carbon emissions.
If we broke it, should we fix it?
The idea of geoengineering – planet-scale projects to reverse climate change – was on the sci-fi fringes of political thought when first proposed by the scientific community back in the 1970s, when the climate effects of fossil-fuel emissions first became apparent.
But it has recently gained a lot more mainstream credibility in both scientific and policy circles. Last week saw a major breakthrough, as the U.S. National Research Council, along with NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other high-level agencies, convened a blue-ribbon group of scientists to evaluate the leading high-tech proposals to fix the Earth.
There are, basically, three big ideas for reversing the warming trend: Putting chemicals in the atmosphere to make it more reflective so less sunlight reaches the surface; changing the chemistry of the oceans (possibly by dumping millions of tonnes of iron filings into them) so they absorb more carbon; and increasing the carbon absorbency of the soil by seeding it
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The arrogance of ignorance has no bounds
But bounds about in unintended consequential glee,
Sure of its brilliance,
Unrestricted by its stupidity.
Human beings do not have the ability to 'break the weather'. Sure we can mess up the air and water quality, by emissions or dumping chemicals, etc. in lakes and streams, but the overall climate is way too big for us to affect.
And the rooster made the sun rise this morning.
Homosexuality is normal but blizzards and windstorms and earthquakes are "unnatural".
Stalinists lie. Always.
They’ve already overcorrected the weather once. Recall 40 years ago we were headed for a new ice age. Now we are headed to a giant dust bowl. Save us from “scientists”.
Sorry, obscure reference. The mighty and omniscient Al Gore himself said the earth’s core was “several millions of degrees.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMrxC-qEHb8
He was, of course, wrong.
Only three hurricanes have hit the US during Obama’s presidency. That is the fewest number for any modern President. The US is having a record cold July. The Arctic is having one of its coldest summers on record. President Obama, the Oligarch’s and the MSM are all lying.
Liberal guilt, New Age philosophy makes me 100% responsible for everything that happens in the Universe. Sucks to be guilty of everything. It's sorta like Judaism without God. Instead of atoning for your sins by sacrificing a ram or a calf or a couple of doves you get to sacrifice your commonsense, self-esteem and instinct for self-preservation....
climate change made Earth what it is today, don’t mess with mother nature.
This blithering fool can place the sum of his entire knowledge in the last category.
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