Comments on: Russian Scientists Field Test Geoengineering

By: Neil Farbstein

Neil Farbstein — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:33:39 +0000

I’m planning a geoengineering institute that will design and test geoengineering solutions to prevent runaway greenhouse warming. If you want to join us in that endeavor contact me at proton7@att.net
or click the link to the geoengineering web group

By: sinz54

sinz54 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:53:24 +0000

Would a regional nuclear war (say Israel-Iran, or India-Pakistan) put enough fallout into the stratosphere to reverse the greenhouse effect?

I’ll bet that just one regional nuclear war would end our global warming problem.

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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:05:03 +0000

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By: Philip H.

Philip H. — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:42:31 +0000

This another in a series of really bad ideas - which I have explored before. The real problem is that we've already been in an uncontrolled geoengineerinf experiment since the start of the industrial revolution, and so adding more geoengineering to combat he impacts of the original geoengineering is just a dooms day loop waiting to happen.

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First Geoengineering Field Trial Carried Out In Russia : MIDEASTA — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:10:59 +0000

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By: StevoR

StevoR — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:15:24 +0000

So why aren’t Americans thinking of such fixes too?

Reminds me of ideas rearding terraforming in SF eg. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy.

If the AGW is real then it is worth thinking about this now & if it truns out AGW is not real we can use this technology later for terraforming.

I don’t think AGW will be as bad as claimed if its true. If its true we may be better off and there will be areas that win and lose.

People have been shouting shrilly and preaching that “Teh end of teh World is Nighh! Nii-iiigh!” throughout human history. Environmentalists have been predicting awful things & warning of environmental armageddon since .. well forever.

It always turns out not to be so. The Global Warming scare will, I predict most likely turn out to be no different just another quasi-religious pseudo-scientific political scare campaign.

If not, I suspect we will adapt or find technological answers.

I thnk we should wait until we’ve had say three or even four or five years in a row that are all hotter than 1998 was before we begin taking any drastic and irreversible measures that lower everyone’s quality of life based on controversial dubious and, at least in some cases (eg.”Hockey stick”, CRU-gate) downright fraudulent “science”.

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:14:46 +0000

We may have to resort to geoengineering if we can’t get greenhouse gases under control, but we ought to prefer methods which are easily controlled, scalable, and offer the least worst side effects. Injecting sulfates into the stratosphere should be the last thing we try, because the side effects are nasty (acid rain, reduced crop yields in shadowed regions) and because the lag between injection and fallout is fairly long. In contrast, creating artificial fog to increase albedo in Arctic regions is chemically neutral and easily throttled. On top of that, a fleet of solar-powered autonomous robot ships would be really cool.