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Environment & Energy

Exultant Democracy

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1. Well if we wanted to do it the right way that ship has already sailed.

Reply to XemaSab (Original post)

Mon May 27, 2013, 10:37 PM

May 2013

In some way this process of global warming we have caused is our first great experiment in geoengineering. We know for a fact that humanity is capable of causing radical changes in an unbelievably short geological timescale.

To tell the truth it is hard to see how we can even say this is a plan B with a straight face. It was always plan A.

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Geoengineering: Our Last Hope, or a False Promise? [View all] XemaSab May 2013 OP

Well if we wanted to do it the right way that ship has already sailed. Exultant Democracy May 2013 #1

Adding sulfur dioxide to the air sounds bad cprise May 2013 #2

There are several types of geoengineering other than adding SO2 to the upper atmosphere OKIsItJustMe May 2013 #4

I didn't know Biochar was considered geoengineering cprise May 2013 #8

Sure it is! OKIsItJustMe May 2013 #11

If the plan is to destroy the biosphere as quickly as possible wtmusic May 2013 #3

Got a better idea? OKIsItJustMe May 2013 #5

Yes wtmusic May 2013 #6

Great! OKIsItJustMe May 2013 #10

I sincerely hope it never comes to that. longship May 2013 #7

I'm not frightened by this fact Socialistlemur May 2013 #9

The fear of deliberate intervention amuses me... phantom power May 2013 #12