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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...