Climate Scientist Pioneer Talks About the Furture of Geoengineering

First time accepted submitter merbs writes At the first major climate engineering conference, Stanford climatologist Ken Caldeira explains how and why we might come to live on a geoengineered planet, how the field is rapidly growing (and why that's dangerous), and what the odds are that humans will try to hijack the Earth's thermostat. From the article: "For years, Dr. Ken Caldeira's interest in planet hacking made him a curious outlier in his field. A highly respected atmospheric scientist, he also describes himself as a 'reluctant advocate' of researching solar geoengineering—that is, large-scale efforts to artificially manage the amount of sunlight entering the atmosphere, in order to cool off the globe."

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Re:Thing is, we know what we have to do

[Anonymous Coward]

Step 1: Read the NIPCC reports and realize it's the sun, not CO2, stupid.

Step 2: Don't build major cities in deserts and on fault lines and then complain about drouts.

Step 3: It's that simple.

Re:Mod parent to infinity

[mi]

Who is "we", because it most certainly does not include Fox News, the Wall Street Journal editorial board, the petrochemical corporations

Nor anybody else, who do things, rather than try to force others to do them the way an actress or a politician said they should be done.

Re:Mod parent to infinity

[geekoid]

Do you have a point? Or are you just too stupid to understand we can only change this system from within the system?