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October 29, 2013
What do we know about manipulating Earth’s climate?
Well, it would seem we know jack or know shit or know a combination of both:The research is still in the early stages, and there is quite a lot we don’t yet know about these techniques. Their effectiveness is uncertain, their side effects are very uncertain, and the practicality of these ideas is extremely uncertain. Geoengineering, through the eyes of the IPCC | Ars Technica
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This was Michael Crichton's entire argument. He wasn't so much a skeptic as simply someone who felt we didn't have a tenth of a clue enough to even guess at what was going on and could only make matters worse.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 29, 2013 8:18 PM
What's a skeptic? To be skeptical is to doubt or question. Never a doubt about this one. It's bullshit.
Posted by: james wilson at October 29, 2013 10:32 PM
All we need to know about the weather is: when the temperature goes down it gets cold; up, it gets hot.
If more details are needed: when the sun goes down it gets dark.
There are cycles of weather, "seasons" as they are called by the masses, repeated daily, monthly, yearly.
That's all we need to know.
Posted by: chasmatic at October 30, 2013 5:37 AM
A somewhat spherical mass of 6,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 kg, whirling through space at 107,200 km/h, rotating at about 1,674.4 km/h, wobbling on its axis, and with an enveloping thin atmosphere churning wildly in ever changing patterns as a result of these and myriad other mega-forces, and we think dumping a little more CO2 into this mix will change things much? Talk about the rooster believing his crowing makes the sun come up.
Posted by: BillH at October 30, 2013 7:52 AM