Could Crazy Technology Save the Planet?
This Physorg.com article starts off with a bad metaphor for the geo-engineering style proposals for reducing CO2:
"Of course it's desperation," said Stanford University professor Stephen Schneider. "It's planetary methadone for our planetary heroin addiction. It does come out of the pessimism of any realist that says this planet can't be trusted to do the right thing."
Well I wouldn't trust this planet to ever be well behaved. It's spent a hell of a lot of its time covered in ice, and by that I mean the real thing, not the crazy homeless man with bugs under his skin type.
Anyway, the article is worth reading. I didn't realise another test of fertilising the oceans with iron was about to begin.
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