John Holdren,
Climate
Posted on 04/08/2009 5:43:12 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
President Barack Obama's new science adviser has said that global warming is so dire, the new administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air.
John Holdren said that the idea of geo-engineering the climate is being discussed. Options include cloud-seeding and shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays.
"It's got to be looked at," he said, even if such experimental measures were only used as a last resort. "We don't have the luxury of taking any approach off the table."
In a further departure from the Bush administration's policy on global warming, Mr Holdren outlined several "tipping points" involving global warming that could be fast approaching.
Once such milestones are reached, such as complete loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic, the chances of "really intolerable consequences" increased substantially, he said.
Though he characterised the potential need to technologically tinker with the climate as just his personal view, in an interview with the Associated Press he said he had raised it with the White House.
Mr Holdren, a 65-year-old physicist, is far from alone in taking geoengineering more seriously. The National Academy of Science is making climate tinkering the subject of its first workshop in its new multidiscipline climate challenges program. Similar ideas have also been discussed in Parliament.
The American Meteorological Society is crafting a policy statement on geoengineering that says "it is prudent to consider geoengineering's potential, to understand its limits and to avoid rash deployment."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Ping.
Could we shoot Obama into the atmosphere? He could cover the earth with pork.
zero can shoot polution into the air is good, if we shoot polution into the air it’s criminal!
Tell it to the engineers. Half will laugh at you.
Uhhhh....shoot polution into the Atmosphere ?
Uhhhhh....Don’t SUV’s Do THAT ?
Coal fired plants ?
Uhhh....Volcanoes ? Yep, they do that big time whenever they blow up......SUV’s are small time Imitators to Volcanoes, we can’t compete.
NEWS FLASH!!!!
Stop Global Warming!
Shoot pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays!
Cost: $ hundreds of billions
Idea - PRICELESS!
Administration sycophant idea man hired specifically to come up with money spending ideas! Hired 70 days ago from under bridge wearing tin foil hat for his own safety.
/sarc
We stand at the 21st precipice of a great slide into glacial conditions throughout the world and this guy wants to make it colder.
Best he be hogtied and hidden somewhere lest he get someone's attention with his arrant nonsense.
The following is an *excellent* video documentary on the so-called “Global Warming” I would recommend it to all FReepers. It’s a very well-made documentary.
“The Great Global Warming Swindle”
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It’s worth seeing and having for relatives, friends, neighbors and coworkers to see.
Also, see it online here...
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Buy it here...
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Aren’t these the same people who advocated covering polar ice with soot to warm the globe when we entered the Ice Age back around 1979 or so?
Crackpot administration completely. One volcanic eruption trumps all that they might accomplish by expending vast amounts of digital ‘money’.
Soon to become a sci-fi horror movie where the experiment wipes out all life forms on earth, but the planet is saved.
My theory is that since Jan. 21 2009, there was been some potent weed being passed around and smoked along the corridors of power. Most of what we hear coming out of Washington these days, probably seemed like a REALLY GOOD IDEA to someone at the time, unfortunately they were probably smoking a big Bob Marley Doobie and looking at cool UV posters.
Mr. Holden what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul
“Coal fired plants ?”
This would not only stop global warming, it would also provide us some electricity and create some wealth to boot.
If I could trade Jimmy Carter for Obama right now I would. Jimmy was an engineer. He’d be able to actually read the data.
“Shoot Pollution Particles into the Atmosphere”
Psychotic would be inaccurate. Stupid is better, but not adequate. Idiotic is one good choice. Insane is much better.
These effing idiots are seeking to bring perpetual winter while they prohibit drilling for oil, while they hate fossil fuels, while they love corn liquor in gas tanks.
They seem to want to make fuel scarce by not drilling for it and food hard to come by because it is being used in cars.
ABsolutey amazing! Absolutely arrogant, stupid, slimy and idiotic antics by self-appointed intellectual geniuses who are nothing but power-hungry punks without adult supervision.
Absolutely insane pigs.
IMHO
IMHO
Shoot Obama into atmosphere to save America
I have a really great idea also. Every time there is an outbreak of toxic algea or red tide, we could drop a nuke in the center of it and destroy it completely.
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