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Junkdrawer

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3. We're already doing poorman's GeoEngineering...

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Thu Nov 1, 2012, 11:16 AM

Nov 2012

The US is switching from Coal to Fracked Methane. Meanwhile, the Coal is being shipped to China where it will be burned with little or no smokestack cleanup. While this will aggravate an already awful public heath problem in China, the short-lived particulates and sulfur aerosols should mask some of the warming caused by the vast increases in global CO2 levels.

Hansen refers to this in his "Storms of my Grandchildren" as the great Faustian bargain.

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"Geoengineers" Think They Can Save the Planet with High-Risk Projects to Manipulate the Climate [View all] xchrom Nov 2012 OP

despite the real possibility of triggering droughts in Asia and Africa Kolesar Nov 2012 #1

Wouldn't it be ironic if... Speck Tater Nov 2012 #2

We're already doing poorman's GeoEngineering... Junkdrawer Nov 2012 #3

We've been geoengineering the planet at an increasing rate for the last 10,000 years. GliderGuider Nov 2012 #4

Fixed it for ya! Nihil Nov 2012 #5