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Geoengineering away global warming
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 12:50 pm
by Pointedstick
http://aeon.co/magazine/nature-and-cosm ... te-change/
in 1988, the late John Martin, then an oceanographer at the Moss Landing Marine Observatory, said: ‘Give me a half tanker of iron, and I will give you an ice age.’
Re: Geoengineering away global warming
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:40 pm
by WildAboutHarry
Corollary: Give me a tanker-sized magnet and I can create...global warming.
This kind of stuff always gives me the willies. The biggest, baddest factor in earth's climate is the sun. I don't want anyone proposing to install a thermostat.
Re: Geoengineering away global warming
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 9:21 pm
by Benko
WildAboutHarry wrote:
Corollary: Give me a tanker-sized magnet and I can create...global warming.
I don't want anyone proposing to install a thermostat.
No worries. Scientists know what they are doing. What could possibly go wrong?
Re: Geoengineering away global warming
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 9:24 pm
by moda0306
Better to have scientists installing a thermostat than capitalists and statists alike running wood-burning stoves unchecked everywhere.
But seriously... This is a bit scary. It's playing with nature in artificial ways... Exactly what some are trying to stop happening with pollution right now.
Re: Geoengineering away global warming
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:31 am
by dragoncar
Yeah, the article is actually filled with scary stuff. Like this:
Much of the oxygen we breathe comes from just one species of cyanobacteria
So all we need is for a bacteriophage to infect the cyanobacteria and no more oxygen...