AFP - With political efforts to tackle global warming advancing slower than a Greenland glacier, schemes for saving Earth's climate system that once were dismissed as crazy or dangerous are gaining in status. ...
"The notion of deploying geo-engineering research and even commercialising geo-engineering is enjoying a level of respectability in science policy circles that would have been unthinkable even three years ago," says Jim Thomas of Canadian-based watchdog group, ETC.
One reason is "the level of panic" surrounding greenhouse-gas levels, which are growing at around three percent a year and are now more than a third greater than before the Industrial Revolution, says Thomas.
Another, he suggests, is "an astonishing switch" by former climate sceptics and conservative lobby groups in the United States.
After years of denial or contestation, these powerful forces have now suddenly accepted that global warming is a problem.
Climate change: Sci-fi solutions no longer in the margins (AFP)
Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:31:41 GMT
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Hooray! Certain forces of ignorance and denial have finally acknowledged the reality of global warming! That warms the cockles of my heart. Really.
It's starting to appear that a geo-engineered world is a drier world:
Climate change methadone?
The danger of exacerbating already desertifying conditions is probably too great to consider these approaches.
The problem with geo-engineering solutions is they're founded on the arrogance that we've got the world figured out, that it's some sort of near-linear problem set. I think, at best, we'll end up with a global cane-toad.
"Global cane toad" -- Love it!
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