UK Royal Society Claims Geo-Engineering Feasible

krou writes "The BBC is reporting that a UK Royal Society report claims that geo-engineering proposals to combat the effects of climate change are 'technically possible.' Three of the plans considered showed the most promise: 'CO2 capture from ambient air'; enhancing 'natural reactions of CO2 from the air with rocks and minerals'; and 'Land use and afforestation'. They also noted that solar radiation management, while some climate models showed them to be ineffective, should not be ignored. Possible suggestions included: 'a giant mirror on the Moon; a space parasol made of superfine aluminum mesh; and a swarm of 10 trillion small mirrors launched into space one million at a time every minute for the next 30 years.'"

Comments

Re:Reducing emissions does nothing

[davetv]

not to Australians like me ... there's so little water here that we have to survive on beer.

Re:Reducing emissions does nothing

[Anonymous Coward]

And in contradiction to yourself, trees are actually responsible for helping create water. Ever seen a desert with trees? Nope...

Also, trees create wind. Notice how whenever it's windy, the trees are always flapping about?

Re:stupid

[foobsr]

News bulletin: We've already fucked with it. (Without understanding).

Yes, just another instance of the onion-type repair model. Once a problem has become obvious, create another layer to fix the problem. Reminds me of a code-comment like 'hack to circumvent the bug created by the fix ...'.

CC.