On 1/16/2013 1:45 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:

      Now the same PR firms are hired by the oil and coal industry to obfuscate 
the
    problem of global warming.


And meanwhile we disregard other options out of ideology, namely 
geo-engineering.

They are disregarded not out of ideology; they are disregarded because the global warming denial industry has succeeded in obfuscating the science so that people think there is great uncertainty about the problem. Of course they are not going to do anything about a problem they are not sure exists, and certainly not anything so drastic, and whose consequences are as difficult to predict, as geo-engineering.

Brent

There are a couple of very interesting proposals on that front that are dismissed without proper thought. Global warming can kill us all, but so can energy shortage.

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