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Climate Engineering As US Policy?

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-in-there-and-fix-it dept.

EricTheGreen writes "The Associated Press has an article featuring Obama administration science advisor John Holdren discussing potential climate engineering responses to global warming. Among the possible approaches? His own version of Operation Dark Storm — shooting micro-particulate pollution high into the atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays. I'm sure the rest of the world would have no issue with that at all, of course. Yikes ..."

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  1. Matrix by gmuslera · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nice way to conmemorate the 10th year since that movie... scorching the skies as Morpheus said, just that "the machines", this time, are just spambots.

  2. Jurisdiction by rockNme2349 · · Score: 3, Funny

    What even makes them think that the U.S. has the right to tinker with the global climate. I'm an american citizen, not a U.S. hater, but we don't have the jurisdiction to make changes that will affect the global climate.

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  3. Re:1/2 Acre of Trees = 1 Car's Pollution by ScentCone · · Score: 4, Funny

    How much additional CO2 will we put into the atmosphere to irrigate the Sahara?

    Fool. Just use carbonated water.

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