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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. Re:Sorry About the Ice Age... by Joce640k · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do we get reparations for the warming being caused by the USA (they use 25% of the world's energy with their excessive behaviour).

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  2. Re:Not reversal by ElectricTurtle · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't you see, all we have to do is get temperatures to drop! Then all the problems will magically go away when all the mass extinctions occur just like every other ice age.

    All these dolts with hardons for Al Gore seem to forget that while a warming trend may be harmful to a few species and a small percentage of geographic areas, a glacial period will be harmful to a metric fuckton of species and a large percentage of geographic areas.

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  3. Re:Let's fix the problem that doesn't exist by orzetto · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or by decreasing unemployment by giving illegal immigrants legal status so they can compete for the already limited number of available jobs?

    It's so cute when free-market conservatives turn protectionist as soon their job is threatened.

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  4. Re:It doesn't matter... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Look up the date of the Kyoto Protocol of the UNFCCC. It was Clinton who did not sign it. Also look up how much we'd have to pay other countries under it... look in the UNFCCC for "poverty" because it also says that solving poverty has a higher priority. I wonder how much that will cost, after solving the poverty of every third-world despot.