<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Eli Kintisch Op-Ed in LA Times</title>
	<atom:link href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/04/18/eli-kintisch-op-ed-in-la-times/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/04/18/eli-kintisch-op-ed-in-la-times/</link>
	<description>Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:28:30 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1</generator>
	<item>
		<title>By: Marion Delgado</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/04/18/eli-kintisch-op-ed-in-la-times/#comment-56432</link>
		<dc:creator>Marion Delgado</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=7986#comment-56432</guid>
		<description>I realize it&#039;s complicated, but at least some thought should have been given by Kintisch to the difference between cutting emissions, which he&#039;s de facto attempting to downplay, and having more useable energy reach the Earth and a muddy smog where you&#039;re trapping useless heat energy (and acidifying the oceans), but, hey, at least you&#039;re also blocking out useful sunlight to a degree.

People pushing geoengineering may have their own reasons, rationale, and agenda, but if they refuse to see that they&#039;re aiding and abetting the delay campaign - the next phase of the denial campaign - then they shouldn&#039;t, at least, get any press they didn&#039;t have to pay for.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I realize it&#8217;s complicated, but at least some thought should have been given by Kintisch to the difference between cutting emissions, which he&#8217;s de facto attempting to downplay, and having more useable energy reach the Earth and a muddy smog where you&#8217;re trapping useless heat energy (and acidifying the oceans), but, hey, at least you&#8217;re also blocking out useful sunlight to a degree.</p>
<p>People pushing geoengineering may have their own reasons, rationale, and agenda, but if they refuse to see that they&#8217;re aiding and abetting the delay campaign &#8211; the next phase of the denial campaign &#8211; then they shouldn&#8217;t, at least, get any press they didn&#8217;t have to pay for.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Wes Rolley</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/04/18/eli-kintisch-op-ed-in-la-times/#comment-56361</link>
		<dc:creator>Wes Rolley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=7986#comment-56361</guid>
		<description>When the annual, pay it today &lt;a href=&quot;http://calstate.fullerton.edu/news/2008/091-air-pollution-study.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;economic cost of air pollution&lt;/a&gt; in just CA is over $28 Billion, then it is very difficult to even consider the potential of it&#039;s good effects.  Of all the justifications for status quo thinking that I have seen, this is one of the worst. 

This includes $6 Billion in the relatively rural San Joaquin Valley where those most affected have almost no political power to effect changes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When the annual, pay it today <a href="http://calstate.fullerton.edu/news/2008/091-air-pollution-study.html" rel="nofollow">economic cost of air pollution</a> in just CA is over $28 Billion, then it is very difficult to even consider the potential of it&#8217;s good effects.  Of all the justifications for status quo thinking that I have seen, this is one of the worst. </p>
<p>This includes $6 Billion in the relatively rural San Joaquin Valley where those most affected have almost no political power to effect changes.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: ChH</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/04/18/eli-kintisch-op-ed-in-la-times/#comment-56360</link>
		<dc:creator>ChH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=7986#comment-56360</guid>
		<description>Rather than sulfate aerosols, I have a plan:
We should have facilities that pour hydrogen hydroxide aerosols into the atmosphere.  That stuff is seriously reflective.  It does require heat energy to produce the aerosol, but relatively low-value heat can be used, so waste heat from industrial and thermal power-generation facilities could be harnessed for this task.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rather than sulfate aerosols, I have a plan:<br />
We should have facilities that pour hydrogen hydroxide aerosols into the atmosphere.  That stuff is seriously reflective.  It does require heat energy to produce the aerosol, but relatively low-value heat can be used, so waste heat from industrial and thermal power-generation facilities could be harnessed for this task.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: JMW</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/04/18/eli-kintisch-op-ed-in-la-times/#comment-56352</link>
		<dc:creator>JMW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=7986#comment-56352</guid>
		<description>Like anything else, there are pros and cons...

...so we get to choose between global warming or an increased incidence of deaths by lung cancer, emphysema and the like.

I sometimes think that the equilibrium of Earth&#039;s climate and biosphere is both more complicated, and in some ways more resilient, than we suppose.  When something gets of out whack, something else comes along to correct the balance.

I hasten to stress that I don&#039;t see this as some kind of deterministic process; it is merely life on earth, responding to new opportunities and new niches to evolve into.

Where we humans have changed things is how we&#039;re able to respond intelligently to newly evolved threats to us; and so we can respond to things like Ebola, potential flu pandemics, etc.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like anything else, there are pros and cons&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;so we get to choose between global warming or an increased incidence of deaths by lung cancer, emphysema and the like.</p>
<p>I sometimes think that the equilibrium of Earth&#8217;s climate and biosphere is both more complicated, and in some ways more resilient, than we suppose.  When something gets of out whack, something else comes along to correct the balance.</p>
<p>I hasten to stress that I don&#8217;t see this as some kind of deterministic process; it is merely life on earth, responding to new opportunities and new niches to evolve into.</p>
<p>Where we humans have changed things is how we&#8217;re able to respond intelligently to newly evolved threats to us; and so we can respond to things like Ebola, potential flu pandemics, etc.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Dark Tent</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/04/18/eli-kintisch-op-ed-in-la-times/#comment-56339</link>
		<dc:creator>Dark Tent</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=7986#comment-56339</guid>
		<description>Kintisch is hardly the first to note the cooling effect of aerosols.

And I&#039;ll pass on listening to him.

Too much hype and not enough science, in my opinion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kintisch is hardly the first to note the cooling effect of aerosols.</p>
<p>And I&#8217;ll pass on listening to him.</p>
<p>Too much hype and not enough science, in my opinion.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Sheril Kirshenbaum</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/04/18/eli-kintisch-op-ed-in-la-times/#comment-56335</link>
		<dc:creator>Sheril Kirshenbaum</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=7986#comment-56335</guid>
		<description>The underappreciated impact of smog? Will have to read, but will be hard to convince me...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The underappreciated impact of smog? Will have to read, but will be hard to convince me&#8230;</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Non-Believer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/04/18/eli-kintisch-op-ed-in-la-times/#comment-56334</link>
		<dc:creator>Non-Believer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=7986#comment-56334</guid>
		<description>No good deed ever goes unpunished....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No good deed ever goes unpunished&#8230;.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>

<!-- Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/

Minified using disk
Page Caching using disk

Served from: blogs.discovermagazine.com @ 2012-05-26 06:26:55 -->
