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Environment & Energy

caraher

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1. Which is why every "geoengineering" scheme is a non-starter for me

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sat Sep 13, 2014, 04:25 AM

Sep 2014

Obsessive focus on temperature ignores every other effect of our abrupt intervention in the global carbon cycle. Geoengineering schemes are akin to a doctor recommending ice bags to patients with fevers rather than addressing the underlying condition causing the fever...

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STUDY: Skyrocketing Carbon Levels In The Atmosphere Are Destroying Our Oceans [View all] xchrom Sep 2014 OP

Which is why every "geoengineering" scheme is a non-starter for me caraher Sep 2014 #1