If you haven't seen the 2008 video at bottom of this post, have a look: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/engineering-the-climate-colberts-all-chocolate-dinner/ HUMOR <http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/category/humor/> December 13, 2013, 10:13 am Comment<http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/engineering-the-climate-colberts-all-chocolate-dinner/#postComment> Engineering the Climate – Colbert’s ‘All-Chocolate Dinner’By ANDREW C. REVKIN <http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/author/andrew-c-revkin/>
*The Colbert Report* Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes<http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/> ,Video Archive <http://www.colbertnation.com/video> I’ve been meaning to post this since Tuesday<https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/410436671008542721>, but better late than never. I encourage you, as a tonic for anything that ails, to watch Stephen Colbert’s conversation<http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/431083/december-09-2013/david-keith> with David Keith <http://www.seas.harvard.edu/directory/dkeith>, the Harvard professor of applied physics and public policy, on his book, “A Case for Climate Engineering <http://www.keith.seas.harvard.edu/book>.” The discussion is all aimed at humor, of course, with Colbert reacting to Keith’s argument for blunting global warming with sun-blocking sulfate aerosols<http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/scientist-david-keith-on-slowing-global-warming-with-geoengineering-a-934359.html> this way: So we owe acid rain an apology, is what you’re saying. And to drive the point home further, he adds: This is the all-chocolate dinner. I get to have my CO2 and I get to spray sulfuric acid all over the Earth. But behind the laughs, they end up circling to serious issues, including the question I’ve explored here several times: Who gets to set Earth’s thermostat?<http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/who-gets-to-set-earths-thermostat/> Highly paid comedians aren’t alone in touching on engineering the climate in a lighthearted way. In case you missed it, here’s a student-shot video explaining geo-engineering, which I first highlighted in my 2008 post “Fun With Mirrors and Dust – a Climate Fix?”<http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/07/fun-with-mirrors-and-dust-a-climate-fix/> : - -- *_* ANDREW C. REVKIN Dot Earth blogger <http://www.nytimes.com/dotearth>, The New York Times Senior Fellow <http://www.pace.edu/paaes/faculty-and-staff>, Pace U. Academy for Applied Env. Studies Cell: 914-441-5556 Fax: 914-989-8009 Twitter: @revkin <http://twitter.com/revkin> Skype: Andrew.Revkin Music: "A Very Fine Line <http://veryfinelines.com>" CD -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
