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Environment & Energy

GreenGreenLimaBean

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8. yes we do, we are melting the planet

Reply to hatrack (Reply #6)

Fri Apr 14, 2017, 01:51 PM

Apr 2017

and the paris accord is a bandaid....there is no time to waste. Let me repeat, we are already GEOENGINEERING THE PLANET with GHG's. Wind/Solar will do the job eventually, but not fast enough to stop the ice caps from melting. And yes, oceans are acidifying, and that problem needs to be solved as well, but this thinking that we should continue slowing weaning ourselves off fossil fuels, and GEO-Engineering cannot be considered is plain wrong on it's merits. Sometimes I think some would rather see the planet melt/flood just to say "I told you so".....

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Harvard Researchers Are Preparing to Geoengineer the Atmosphere [View all] Rhiannon12866 Apr 2017 OP

Someone has to do MFM008 Apr 2017 #1

Hide the problem & make solar power less productive. Guess we'll just have to burn more coal? Crash2Parties Apr 2017 #2

Fascinating - and a bit frightening to think such countermeasures are needed Cooley Hurd Apr 2017 #3

NOVA had an amazing show that talked about this Phoenix61 Apr 2017 #4

about time GreenGreenLimaBean Apr 2017 #5

Yes, because nothing could POSSIBLY go wrong, and we know EXACTLY what we're doing hatrack Apr 2017 #6

yes we do, we are melting the planet GreenGreenLimaBean Apr 2017 #8

It's like mixing alcohol and caffeine, thinking one will offset the other NickB79 Apr 2017 #9

I wonder how this is going to reduce ocean acidification? GliderGuider Apr 2017 #7

Yes, the part that never gets mentioned when sulfate injection is discussed . . . hatrack Apr 2017 #10

There are probably countless & unquantifiably complex ecosystem variables that would interplay and JudyM Apr 2017 #12

This only makes things worse caraher Apr 2017 #11