Posted on 03/16/2025 12:45:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
What hope now for avoiding catastrophic climate change? As all of the data on emissions, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, and global warming point emphatically in the wrong direction, returning president Donald Trump has given the call to “drill, baby, drill”—a pledge to fast-track new fossil fuel projects and ramp up production. One presumes it’s an order that the world’s oil and gas giants, already backsliding from their previous commitments to transition to green energy, will be only too happy to heed.
Against this backdrop, the dark premonitions that haunt the minds of those persuaded by the scientific consensus on climate change—and the myriad horrors of a burning world—only intensify. With every tried and tested climate fix looking like a busted flush, radical new ideas are being explored with increasing urgency.
One of these is geoengineering. The large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment to mitigate the impact of man-made climate change is seen by some as a technical challenge that will draw out the very best of human ingenuity and ultimately save the world. Others see it as the latest example of our deluded faith in technology.
You may be aware by now of solar geoengineering, which in most cases means reflecting sunlight before it has the chance to reach and heat Earth’s surface. Some believe we could pump sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere to form a protective fug of sunlight-reflecting sulphate aerosols. Other theories, such as Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW), involve carbon sequestration. Rock weathering is actually a totally natural process in which carbon dioxide is drawn out of the atmosphere when a chemical reaction occurs between rainwater and rocks. With ERW, you accelerate this through mechanical means, allowing you to sequester significantly more CO2.
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It’s kind of true - the best way to drive innovation in anything is a shortage. The faster we use up existing energy sources, the faster new energy sources will be created. Virtuous consumption.
There is no “scientific” consensus on climate change.
Well, when y’all leftists take sledge hammers to your own green EV cars, we don’t need to take your climate whining so seriously now, do we?
Climate changes when it damn well feels like it.
Are these people insane or completely deluded?
Same category of idiot that wants to block out the sun.
VICE. The all sodomite druggie BS pushers.
Sure why not?
About as reasonable as the other quacks running around trying to “save the earth”...
IMHO, a lot of greenies are funded by China.
At all.
Fortunately we now have an EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin , who says he wants to put a dagger in the Climate Change Religion.
I saw this movie. /s
Sparing zot worthy - though most appropriate - commentary, to save the planet one needs only remove all the oxygen from Andy Haverly’s lungs (among others).
Sounds like a scheme to really destroy everything, under the guise of “saving the planet.”
"People are stupid. They will believe any lie as long as they want it to be true or are afraid it is true."and of course the evil Democrat politicians who derive power from the votes of their moronic electorate.
Nuking crust should only apply to pizza.
Yes !
Utter BS.
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