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Ken Caldeira is a scientist at the Carnegie Institution’s department of global ecology.


Henning Wagenbreth

I get the impression that the author is serious.

1 posted on 10/24/2007 8:44:34 PM PDT by neverdem
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Holy Acid Rain, Batman, do you think they’ve thought this through?


2 posted on 10/24/2007 8:47:46 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: neverdem

I’ve always said this. Even if everything that Al Gore says about anthropogenic global warming is true, fixing it is just an engineering problem.

Dismantling the world’s economy to lessen global warming is like amputating your hands to stop smoking.


3 posted on 10/24/2007 8:52:04 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: neverdem
I get the impression that the author is serious.

Or insane. All we need is for some looney tune to actually CHANGE our climate. Ice Age, anyone?

4 posted on 10/24/2007 8:54:18 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: neverdem

I think I have the solution to “cooling the earth”..everyone on earth should leave their refrigerator doors open..the cold air will so cool this helpless planet..Do I have to think of everything?????


5 posted on 10/24/2007 8:54:29 PM PDT by BerniesFriend
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What can be done, Ken?

Ninety-nine percent of the $3 billion federal Climate Change Technology Program should still go toward developing climate-friendly energy systems.

I suggest ceasing federal funding to the global warming we are all going to die industry and we'll probably find the idea of throwing soot into the atmosphere to block the sun is a really unnecessary idea.

6 posted on 10/24/2007 8:54:47 PM PDT by A message
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What can be done? One idea is to counteract warming by tossing small particles into the stratosphere (above where jets fly). This strategy may sound far-fetched, but it has the potential to cool the earth within months.

Aren't these the same dumb-shits who caused glo-bull warming when they over-corrected for their "coming ice age" in the 1970s...

9 posted on 10/24/2007 8:59:25 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
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The only problem is, some weather scientists think we may be on the cusp of an ice age.

Do we really want to toss a bunch of stuff into the stratosphere and then find out a few years down the line that, oops, we really screwed up and it’s getting very cold?

It’s like all the PC types saying that we need to control overpopulation, spreading free condoms throughout the world with your tax dollars, and then suddenly noticing, about 20 years too late, that populations are imploding and there aren’t enough workers to support the old folks, not to mention a hundred million Chinese males who will never have wives.

Oops, back to the drawing board.


10 posted on 10/24/2007 8:59:34 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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I’m sure a scientist could come up with environmentally friendly chemicals that would cool the atmosphere. But that takes all the good stuff away from the global warming hysteria like all the harsh regulations, higher taxes, socialism, etc.


11 posted on 10/24/2007 9:00:40 PM PDT by camerakid400
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To: neverdem

I think the author has been breathing too much carbon monoxide. Maybe a little lead was in that air, too. Something just ain’t right in his head.


14 posted on 10/24/2007 9:13:54 PM PDT by Jemian (I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either.)
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To: neverdem
Man-made clouds are safer and more powerful at both heating and cooling. They are more localized so do not need global government. They rain out within weeks and are not permanent, so mistakes can be reversed quickly. They increase plant growth which go on to remove more CO2. Free ocean wave energy can be used to create them. The energy can be reclaimed as more hydro-power and free watering of crops. They increase freshwater supplies for consumption and filling aquifers. Clouds can be used to prevent severe weather from forming. They can be used to increase humidity to reduce wild fires and turn desert into prime real estate. Clouds can also be used militarily since they can shield a battlefield from observation including IR detection, plus they can be used as a weapon to send bad weather towards an enemy. It will probably be the military that masters clouds first. It won't be the UN scientists since clouds do not further global government.

We already make man-made clouds via waste heat at factories, jet aircraft, and ocean ships. We can cheaply make more. Why cool the whole planet when we just need to cool the narrow latitude where the temperature is 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Glaciers and polar ice cannot melt a drop if the temperature is a fraction below 32 degrees.

16 posted on 10/24/2007 9:20:44 PM PDT by Reeses (Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
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This is the right track. Instead of endless debate about what’s causing the planet to warm up, it’s way past time to shift the focus to learning how to control it, in both directions. I”ve seen the particle idea before, but alongside another, safer sounding suggestion to put some large reflector structures into orbit. The obvious relative benefit here is that such structures could easily be moved or brought back down again, if and when they were not getting the desired results. Collecting zillions of little particles would be a heck of a lot harder.


17 posted on 10/24/2007 9:22:56 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: neverdem

Do I have this right? Now, air pollution is good?


18 posted on 10/24/2007 9:23:15 PM PDT by Nachoman (My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.)
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The amount in the atmosphere today exceeds the most pessimistic forecasts made just a few years ago, and it is increasing faster than anybody had foreseen.

Yeah, that .117% of newly generated CO2 each year made by man is just terrible. /s

20 posted on 10/24/2007 9:27:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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SIMPLE SOLUTION TO GLOBAL WARMING:

NUCLEAR ENERGY. LOTS OF IT.


21 posted on 10/24/2007 9:28:23 PM PDT by WOSG (I just wish freepers would bash Democrats as much as they bash Republicans)
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I know lets stop giving paper bags at stores and switch to plastic. That will save the trees. Then we can sink a whole bunch of old tires into the ocean and it will form a new coral reef. Then we stop controlled burns because that just pollutes the environment and kills plants.

Yes envirowacko ideas work all the time.


22 posted on 10/24/2007 9:29:53 PM PDT by Domandred (Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
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23 posted on 10/24/2007 9:32:35 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Hey Jessie, how much melanin do you have to have to form a socially acceptable lynch mob?)
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To: neverdem
Mount Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines that erupted in 1991, showed how it works...

and they interfere - then another Volcano lets loose and we're plunged into a 2-3 year ice age of failed crops etc...

Leave things be! The earth - and the sun, which has the most effect of what happens down here - has been adjusting and readjusting for millions of years - cycles within cycles - and doing a far better job that man does at anything...especially government.

Government screws up everything it touches - these nuts have to be corralled

24 posted on 10/24/2007 9:40:31 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
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We would need to ‘cool’ the Earth if we could determine what the actual temperature of Earth was supposed to be.

I’m sure somewhere Nostradamus or Da Vinci or De Sade wrote down the exact ideal temperature of the entire Earth and we’ll only need to adjust it to get back to that point.

I sure hope it wasn’t the perfect temperature back in the 1600s because it was really, really hot back then.


26 posted on 10/24/2007 9:52:33 PM PDT by bpjam (Harry Reid doesn't even have 32% of my approval)
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This is not to say that we should give up trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Ninety-nine percent of the $3 billion federal Climate Change Technology Program should still go toward developing climate-friendly energy systems.
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why???????? why if you admit it won’t make a dent?
Because. Must. Worship. Gore.
Must. Screw. Economy.
Om.


28 posted on 10/24/2007 9:59:31 PM PDT by ari-freedom (I am for traditional moral values, a strong national defense, and free markets.)
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Save the environment,
kill an environmentalist.
30 posted on 10/24/2007 10:14:20 PM PDT by TheDon (The DemocRAT party is the party of TREASON! Overthrow the terrorist's congress!)
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