a new word
April 26th 2008 00:45
Our dictionary of new and obscure terms relating to Climate Change, global warming, carbon trading and the like is getting very colourful indeed. Now we have a new addition.
Geo-engineering. The definition of this (and I may well write a longer post on this fascinated as I am) from good old Wiki is
No I am not making this up, last week there was an entire conference on the subject, with all sorts of weird and wonderful inventions on display that will counteract Climate Change in some way shape or form. Unfortunately most of the solutions have unintended consequences of catastrophic proportions, but hey, never let the truth get it in the way of a good theory!!!!
Here is a snippet from and article on the conference and a link as well as a link to the conference listing with definitions all the weird and wonderful ideas out there.
Sometimes there are no words for the new words.
cheers
Louie
Geo-engineering. The definition of this (and I may well write a longer post on this fascinated as I am) from good old Wiki is
Geoengineering is the deliberate modification of Earth's environment on a large scale "to suit human needs and promote habitability". [2] Others define it more narrowly as focusing only on the mineralogy and hydrology of the Earth.[3] The term geoengineering is distinct from accidental anthropogenic climate change.
No I am not making this up, last week there was an entire conference on the subject, with all sorts of weird and wonderful inventions on display that will counteract Climate Change in some way shape or form. Unfortunately most of the solutions have unintended consequences of catastrophic proportions, but hey, never let the truth get it in the way of a good theory!!!!
Here is a snippet from and article on the conference and a link as well as a link to the conference listing with definitions all the weird and wonderful ideas out there.
Sometimes there are no words for the new words.
cheers
Louie
When it comes to averting dangerous climate change, an awful lot of people seem to hold out hope that we can blast our way out of the mess we’re in. Nothing so boring as energy conservation, or even replacing coal, oil and natural gas with solar, wind and nuclear: Instead, let’s shoot sulfate particles into the atmosphere to reflect away sunlight! Let’s load up the oceans with iron so plankton will grow like dandelions on my lawn and suck up the heat-trapping carbon dioxide produced when we burn fossil fuels!
Hope springs eternal. This week brought a conference on weather modification, with the emphasis on getting clouds to drop their raindrops. My favorite paper was, alas, withdrawn: it proposed a machine—a ship, actually, with “four torpedo-shaped hulls”—that would “stop hurricanes from wrecking large parts of America.”
Hope springs eternal. This week brought a conference on weather modification, with the emphasis on getting clouds to drop their raindrops. My favorite paper was, alas, withdrawn: it proposed a machine—a ship, actually, with “four torpedo-shaped hulls”—that would “stop hurricanes from wrecking large parts of America.”
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Comment by Cibbuano
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Case in point: last week, I went camping. There was a nice lookout, looking over the bay. A beautiful spot, especially when the sun was setting... right by the lookout, a few empty plastic bottles.
Comment by Louie
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Seriously around Camperdown, if i forget doggie poo bags I never have to worry, not once have I been more that 3 steps from some form of plastic something to pick up the poo, when you look people are disgraceful on the most basic levels.
Comment by Aimzster
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Louie, I have t so say I'm quite proud of the people in my area. It's quite common to see them walking toward Coles with environmentally friendly bags folded in their armpits, and very rare to see someone with a shopping trolley full of plastic bags.
Comment by Lilla
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Your posts always cause me to want to write a thesis in reply, or at the very least they hit upon "great wells of information" I have stored away in my personal mental computer on subjects relating to geo-engineering ... and where this type of numb-skull thinking will lead us ... especially when they are the ones probably leaving the bottles at the camp sites in the first place!
I cannot possibly download here (in this response) all the info I have bubbling to the surface, but Dan Brown's book : Deception Point is a great place to start your research with. You can validate the facts later as you go... and factual he is in a very scary way, especially where NASA is concerned....
my point?
Well, with NASA loosing it's foothold on the 'space platform,' (in the real world now, okay?) ... because it cannot come up with anything creative enough to keep hold of public awe or money making initiatives - loosing some big bucks each year - China continues building one (a space platform).
And whereas NASA's monopoly has meant relative safety for us all, it looks like 'space' will soon be open to the public sector and FOR SALE to the highest bidder - God forbid!
Whilst that may be great for very rich people keen to try out a weekend on the Moon-side Hilton, it spells disaster for the new breed of oil-rich Space Cowboys who want to 'drag' huge chunks of metal rich ore-based asteroids into the earth's atmosphere for mining: all without a thought towards the gravity and delicate pull of the earth's "balance."
*sarcastically* ...I guess we could launch anything from space to 'reflect' the sun's harmful rays too, but not go without KFC for a week - Yeehaa let's go get 'em ...
*cringe*
Geo-engineering suddenly became a loathsome term for me, not bad, since about five minutes ago, I didn't even know what it meant... now I may have to post on it too...
Thanks for the info.
Lilla ...