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More Climate Scientists Now Support Geoengineering
ofcourseyouare writes "The Independent is a UK newspaper which has been pushing hard for cuts in CO2 emissions for years. It recently polled a group of 'the world's leading climate scientists,' revealing a 'growing support for geoengineering' in addition to cutting CO2 — not as a substitute. For example, Jim Lovelock, author of The Gaia Theory, comments: 'I disagree that geoengineering the climate is a dangerous distraction and I disagree that on no account should it ever be considered. I strongly agree that we now need a "plan B" where a geoengineering strategy is drawn up in parallel with other measures to curb CO2 emissions.' Professor Kerry Emanuel of MIT said, 'While a geoengineering solution is bound to be less than desirable, the probability of getting global agreement on emissions reductions before it is too late is very small.'"
Let's all pretend we have anthropogenic climate change and can fix it by geoengineering. How much geoengineering? When do you stop?
Since the data on climate change need to be considered over several decades to determine the extent of the change, what's the indicator that you're done geoengineering and should stop before you overshoot and cause an ice age?
Do you do one project and wait 100 years to see if it gets cooler? 50 years?
Wouldn't 50 or 100 years be better spent finding a way to cope with a slightly warmer climate? People find ways to deal with adversity all the time (or at least we used to before society decided that life was supposed to be problem-free). We can't find some way to flourish in 2 or 4 degree warmer temperatures given 50 or 100 years to work on it?
Because we have to.
We do not have to , global warming is not proven. Even if the oceans rise and all of the poles melt, humans will still survive and thrive. Sure, polar bears might go extinct, but so did dinosaurs millions of years before we were even around driving our SUVs. The only constant on this planet is change be it natural or man-made.
And then what happens when we get plunged into another ice age because of something?
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
You left out some groups, not just blacks and Jews, but Caucasians and Asians and if you're including Jews, include Christians and Muslims as well. There is plenty of racism in the poor black community for example blaming white people and Asians (especially Koreans for some reason) for their miserable life. Funny thing is, racism is one of the few things that is actually colour blind.
Arctic ice is increasing over the last year. World temperatures are down for the last two years (peaked in 1998). The computer models used for predicting anthropogenic global warming are diverging from actual observations. The prudent approach is to continue to observe and do nothing.
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It is crazy how scientific community behaves like just any other group where scientific methods are trumped by polls and consensus. It is exactly this herd mentality that prevented the community to look outside string theory for the grand unified theory.
Folks like Garrett Lisi had to resort to virtually getting away from civilization to make progress their own radical new ideas.
man-made global warming is bullshit.
Disproved last year. Of all the global warming gases CO2 is one of the "rarer" ones. Out of 100,000 molecules of air there are only 39 CO2 molecules. It takes FIVE YEARS of humans CURRENT CO2 output to raise it to 40. CO2 feeds plants. If AGW wackos succeed it is basically a suicide mission. Save the earth by starving the plants. Global temperatures are affected by Solar Activity. It has been low recently which is why the temps globally are the lowest they have been in 10 years. I know, NASA says they are higher. But Hanson, Al Gore's buddy, was caught cooking the books. He was carrying over August data into October. Of course the numbers look higher then. Geez. Stop the AGW fraud.