Can geoengineering put the freeze on global warming?

THOSE NWO RAT BASTARD FUTHER MUCKERS ARE IN UR FACE, TELLING YOU EXACTLY WTF THEY ARE DOING!! Is manipulating Earth’s environment to combat climate change a good idea--and where, exactly, did the idea come from? As efforts to combat climate change falter despite ever-rising concentrations of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, some scientists and other experts have begun to consider the possibility of using so-called geoengineering to fix the problem. Such "deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment" as the Royal Society of London puts it, is fraught with peril, of course. Each brings its own set of risks, but in a world fretting about the consequences of global warming, are these ideas whose time has come? With 2010 tying as the world's warmest year on record and efforts to slow greenhouse gas emissions looking stymied, calls are rising for research into engineering our way out of global warming — everything from launching solar shade spacecraft to genetically engineering green deserts. An international consortium of 12 universities and research institutes on Tuesday, for example, announced plans to pioneer large-scale "ocean fertilization" experiments aimed at using the sea to pull more greenhouse gases out of the sky. Once the domain of scientists' off-hours schemes scrawled on cocktail napkins, such geoengineering is getting a serious look in the political realm.

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 15m 28s Date Found: Wed, Mar 02 2011 2:35 PM Category: Technology Date Produced: Tue, Mar 01 2011 2:57 PM View Count: 0