The geoengineering approach appears to ignore the problem of the seas becoming more acid due to more dissolved CO2. I don't see an engineering approach to that one at any bearable cost.
Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Keith Addison wrote: > From: The Economist, Jan. 15, 2006 > <http://www.precaution.org/lib/07/prn_global_engineering.070115.htm>[P > rinter-friendly version] > > Dr Strangelove Saves The Earth > > How big science might fix climate change > > Few scientists like to say so, but cutting greenhouse-gas emissions > is not the only way to solve the problem of global warming. If > man-made technologies are capable of heating the planet, they are > probably capable of cooling it down again. Welcome to > "geo-engineering", which holds that, rather than trying to change > mankind's industrial habits, it is more efficient to counter the > effects, using planetary-scale engineering. > > This general approach has been kicking around for decades. A paper on > climate change prepared for President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 made no > mention of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions. It nonchalantly proposed > dealing with the results by dumping vast quantities of reflective > particles into the oceans, to increase the amount of sunlight > reflected into space. [snip] _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
