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Environment & Energy

GliderGuider

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

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Thu Nov 1, 2012, 11:21 AM

Nov 2012

And putting lots of clever thought into it, too. Dams, farms, cities, roads, aquifer pumping, deforestation, desert-building...

What gives us any confidence that simply calling it geoengineering will make it turn out any better?

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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