April 9, 200917 yr Obama May Block Sun's Rays to End Global Warming Wednesday, April 08, 2009? Associated Press WASHINGTON — The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air. John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort. "It's got to be looked at," he said. "We don't have the luxury of taking any approach off the table." Holdren outlined several "tipping points" involving global warming that could be fast approaching. Once such milestones are reached, such as complete loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic, it increases chances of "really intolerable consequences," he said. Twice in a half-hour interview, Holdren compared global warming to being "in a car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog." ? At first, Holdren characterized the potential need to technologically tinker with the climate as just his personal view. However, he went on to say he has raised it in administration discussions. Holdren, a 65-year-old physicist, is far from alone in taking geoengineering more seriously. The National Academy of Science is making climate tinkering the subject of its first workshop in its new multidiscipline climate challenges program. The British parliament has also discussed the idea. The American Meteorological Society is crafting a policy statement on geoengineering that says "it is prudent to consider geoengineering's potential, to understand its limits and to avoid rash deployment." Last week, Princeton scientist Robert Socolow told the National Academy that geoengineering should be an available option in case climate worsens dramatically. But Holdren noted that shooting particles into the air — making an artificial volcano as one Nobel laureate has suggested — could have grave side effects and would not completely solve all the problems from soaring greenhouse gas emissions. So such actions could not be taken lightly, he said. Still, "we might get desperate enough to want to use it," he added. Another geoengineering option he mentioned was the use of so-called artificial trees to suck carbon dioxide — the chief human-caused greenhouse gas — out of the air and store it. At first that seemed prohibitively expensive, but a re-examination of the approach shows it might be less costly, he said. Our tax dollars at work....
April 9, 200917 yr Author it is real stuff, a simple google search people... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513242,00.html It is an Associated Press piece It looks outrageous, but true...We have a couple of nut jobs in Government..what can I tell ya
April 9, 200917 yr The hate Pelosi gets make me ehe sometimes. She deserves it. Ignorant scumbags like her are whats wrong with politics and why this country is in the shape it is in.
April 9, 200917 yr The hate Pelosi gets make me ehe sometimes. She deserves it. Ignorant scumbags like her are whats wrong with politics and why this country is in the shape it is in. She's no worse than a lot of people in the House, she just managed to trip ass backwards into a position of power.
April 14, 200917 yr This really is madness , I guarantee you that if human beings attempt to manipulate the environment in this manner NOTHING good will come of it .
April 14, 200917 yr Author This really is madness , I guarantee you that if human beings attempt to manipulate the environment in this manner NOTHING good will come of it . can't agree more...
April 16, 200917 yr God... "global warming". A week ago it was 49 degrees outside. In Florida. Give me a break.
April 22, 200917 yr Not making a case for global warming here, but I find it humorous that people think an unseasonably cold day refutes the idea altogether.
April 22, 200917 yr God... "global warming". A week ago it was 49 degrees outside. In Florida. Give me a break. God... "no global warming". On January 7th it was 86 degrees. In Florida. Give me a break. (See, I can do it too.)
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