Posted on 06/20/2009 11:12:54 PM PDT by Lorianne
If we’re going to avoid climate disaster, we’re going to have start getting a lot more direct. We’re going to have to think about cooling the planet.
The concept is called geoengineering, and in the past few years, it has gone from being dismissed as a fringe idea to the subject of intense debates in the halls of power. Many of us who have been watching this subject closely have gone from being skeptics to advocates. Very reluctant advocates, to be sure, but advocates nonetheless.
What has changed? Quite simply, as the effects of global warming have worsened, policy makers have failed to meet the challenge. As a result, if we want to avoid an unprecedented global catastrophe, we may have no other choice but to reduce the impact of global warning, alongside focusing on the factors that are causing it in the first place. That is, while we continue to work aggressively to reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere, we also need to consider lowering the temperature of the Earth itself.
To be clear, geoengineering won’t solve global warming. It’s not a “techno-fix.” It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences. And without a doubt, the deployment of geoengineering would lead to international tension. Who decides what the ideal temperature would be? Russia? India? The U.S.? Who’s to blame if Country A’s geoengineering efforts cause a drought in Country B?
Also let’s be clear about one other thing: We will still have to radically reduce carbon emissions, and do so quickly. We will still have to eliminate the use of fossil fuels, and adopt substantially more sustainable agricultural methods. We will still have to deal with the effects of ecosystems damaged by carbon overload.
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The only thing that stopped them was all of those tin foil hats.
This guy represents the new flim-flam man.
These Warming Alarmists, Warmists, are more ignorant than the Flat Earthers. I guess a new name is in order. Warming Itiots, Widiots?
It’s been cold in Michigan all spring. Please send some global warming to us.
Would love to get at least 1 day in CT where it almost reaches 80. Tomato plants would appreciate it instead of getting fungus from the constant cloudy and wet.
I suggest huge airconditioners set up in the Sahara, the Mojave and Gobi deserts(although the Gobi isn’t so hot as it is dry).Also we need to build a CO2 sucking machine that will suck CO2 right out of the atmosphere. Who needs it except for plants, he** we don’t need plants do we?(I would hope I don’t need the SAR tag).
Judging by this sentence I would say you were typing way to fast!:)
Is that another picture of the invisible sunspots “scientists” were talking about the other day?
According to the environmentalists, that's just more proof that global warming is real.
If you take out the sunspots that would not have been visible with earlier technology, I would bet that we would have an almost unbroken two-year stretch of spotless days.
These guys are cheerleading for sunspots so their cycle predictions don’t look foolish. As soon as they admit that we have something profoundly unusual going on, they will have to admit that global cooling is also possible and a real threat to civilization.
It also caused an increase in alien babies if I remeber correctly.
Actually it’s been cooling for millions of years.
That’s what planets do.
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