Global warming? Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first...well, bionic world. Earth will be that world. Better than it was before. Colder, faster, better.
I read this article and though I am not a big fan of just posting someone else's work, here is the link. It was well worth the time to read it and I recommend everyone browse around slate when they are done.
This one's about geoengineering the climate in order to fend off "global warming." Wild right? But low-lying countries might try it, especially if money and desperation link up.
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Good points Dusty and such stuff is scary indeed.
"The vast majority of new power stations in China and India will be coal-fired; not "may be coal-fired"; will be. So developing carbon capture and storage technology is not optional, it is literally of the essence." --"Breaking the Climate Deadlock," Tony Blair, June 26, 2008
But, Vaclav Smil, an energy expert at the University of Manitoba, has estimated that capturing and burying just 10 percent of the carbon dioxide emitted over a year from coal-fire plants at current rates would require moving volumes of compressed carbon d ioxide greater than the total annual flow of oil worldwide -- a massive undertaking requiring decades and trillions of dollars. "Beware of the scale," he stressed."
"I'm going to tell you something I probably shouldn't: we may not be able to stop global warming. We need to begin curbing global greenhouse emissions right now, but more than a decade after the signing of the Kyoto Protocol, the world has utterly failed to do so. Unless the geopolitics of global warming change soon, the Hail Mary pass of geoengineering might become our best shot." --Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine, 17 March 2008
"The alternative (to geoengineering) is the acceptance of a massive natural cull of humanity and a return to an Earth that freely regulates itself but in the hot state." --Dr James Lovelock, August 2008