Time to go shopping for my Speedo.

I call dibs on the seat next to the bar.

The difficulty is simply scale. To have any meaningful effect on global climate you have to make bubble patches on a truly gigantic scale. Many thousands of square km at the very least. If you do that by human activity directly you would need to expend major energy resources. Resources that, right now, would likely come from burning fossil fuels!

Now, if you could genetically engineer algae, let’s say, to do this for us, that might work. But don’t algae already make oxygen as a routine matter? So are we looking for super oxygen producing algae?

Since I was a lad, I’m a bit over fifty now, I have heard different people from different groups warn us of how we are going to annihilate ourselves and every living thing on the planet. So far, in those fifty years, each and every one of them has been wrong…

I personally think humans are arrogant in their quest to manipulate a climate that has been changing for millions of years, these changes which allowed for all animals (and the landscapes we enjoy) to have evolved to the current state that we are for the most part, so comfortable in and enjoy – from glacial sculptured valleys to lagoons in Tahiti.

I think we risk really messing it up, by doing nothing, anything and everything…from continuing to dump crap into the air, as well as trying to fix it could be catastrophic. So much of our pollution is from making junk goods that are sold in malls and strip centers that we feel we need and that are marketed to us like crazy. The problem is the human desire for more things…bigger houses filled with more stuff. Disposable plastic toilet brushes for convenience as well as the latest trendy granite counter. And as many westerners are starting to downsize and realize this, China, Brazil, India, etc are growing and consuming as we did decades ago with a thirst to have it all. More production of goods, pollution and waste, coupled with less forest to suck it all up……I think nature will soon set a limit on it, eventually any runaway population is set back, somehow.

Just checking.