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Is it time for humanity to go on offense against global warming? Can we? Should we? Curtailing economic activity, altering lifestyles and well-intentioned talk in Copenhagen has not accomplished much. That's why serious people are now considering Plan B, to intentionally tinker with the planet's climate to correct for industrialization-induced warming....Join us in assessing the state of these efforts and in considering the politics and ethics of playing God with the climate.
The Elusive Quest to Define Geoengineering
David Keith
Director, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy
University of Calgary
The subject is unsettling, almost taboo in certain environmental advocacy circles. And yet nations and entrepreneurs are proceeding with geoengineering research and experiments
From the administration that brought you “man-caused disaster” and “overseas contingency operation,” another terminology change is in the pipeline.
The White House wants the public to start using the term “global climate disruption” in place of “global warming” — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is.
White House science adviser John Holdren urged people to start using the phrase during a speech last week in Oslo, echoing a plea he made three years earlier. Holdren said global warming is a “dangerous misnomer” for a problem far more complicated than a rise in temperature.
The call comes as Congress prepares to adjourn for the season without completing work on a stalled climate bill. The term global warming has long been criticized as inaccurate, and the new push could be an attempt to re-shape climate messaging for next year’s legislative session.
“They’re trying to come up with more politically palatable ways to sell some of this stuff,” said Republican pollster Adam Geller, noting that Democrats also rolled out a new logo and now refer to the Bush tax cuts as “middle-class tax cuts
Originally posted by burntheships
reply to post by johnny c
It does give new meaning to the descriptive term "mad scientist"
does it not?
It seems that thier take on it is...its not illegal. so try and stop us...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Originally posted by burntheships
reply to post by johnny c
No worries on the smileys there mate!
That is really an interesting take on your weather there for three summers!
I am sure, it they wanted it to, it could rain for three. You think they were strong arming the vote eh?
It's come to this: Climate-conscious policymakers are beginning to contemplate the possibility of playing God with the weather in the hope of slowing global warming.
For years it was considered downright wacky in official Washington to discuss geoengineering: altering the climate by reflecting sunlight back into the sky, sucking carbon dioxide from the air - or a host of other gee-whiz schemes. But in the past year the wacky has won a following, spurred in part by the recent collapse of climate legislation as well as by growing interest among private entrepreneurs and foreign officials.