Scepticism's expertise...
... going down the up escalator!
That does remind me of Escher's staircase...
Carpe diem!
Showing posts with label climate manipulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate manipulation. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 October 2012
Sceptic Doubts
Scepticism's expertise...
... going down the up escalator!
That does remind me of Escher's staircase...
Carpe diem!
Friday, 11 December 2009
postponing and impeding...
Copenhagen certainly is needed but to my mind it is missing the point; tackling "global warming" alone is like trying to get rid of a cough while the heart is under attack.
Like the raindrops fill the oceans it needs pouring thoughts to describe and understand our problem.
Like the raindrops fill the oceans it needs pouring thoughts to describe and understand our problem.
There are some elements of our human tradition worthwhile remembering which listening to independent, experienced and potentially wise people is one of. So don't think you waste your time following (possibly a second time) Sir David Attenborough and his Horizon Special on BBC; or click your way through below YouTube feeds.
Remember... "getting bored is postponing but impeding the answer ".
Carpe diem!Remember... "getting bored is postponing but impeding the answer ".
Sunday, 6 December 2009
if it was simple it would be easy to fix!
More than a year ago NEW SCIENTIST published a report that is worthwhile to mention again: "How our economy is killing the Earth."
The quintessence is to not reduce the impact discussion to headlines like "CO2", "Global Warming", "Climate Change" or "Copenhagen". You might want to read the report here or just inhale the below charts - there is much more to sustainability than reducing GHGes:
The quintessence is to not reduce the impact discussion to headlines like "CO2", "Global Warming", "Climate Change" or "Copenhagen". You might want to read the report here or just inhale the below charts - there is much more to sustainability than reducing GHGes:
and more...
Lot's of food for thought; for sceptics, too.
Carpe diem!
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Can geo-engineering rebuild the planet?
(click headline for original article)
Can geo-engineering rebuild the planet?
As global warming worsens, the idea of vast projects to alter the Earth's environment is moving from fantasy to necessity.
By Sanjida O'Connell
Comment on the above article:
In a parallel world banks are just about to create bad banks – or should we say bad banks are creating worse banks? - to set aside the dirt they played with but are now fed up with; it seems that some so-called scientists are trying to follow a similar route by playing around with what the planet balanced all by itself while traveling millions and billions of years through space enabling life to develop.
Little do we know about the climate per se, we are fishing in muddy waters when it comes to understand the correlations of materials and processes on a global scale, invent climate models that forget to take into account that white ice reflects sunlight better than dark waters and the same ice when thawing might get covered with water which then accelerates the thawing process; we forget the ozone hole’s influence on Antarctica only to find out that it is subject to the same warming patterns like the vastness of the rest of the planet, we regard wood as carbon neutral and nuclear power as a necessity – and then we want to geo-engineer this planet?
Frightening; Orwell’s ideas about 1984 would seem like heaven compared to a scenario where it was declared a necessity to play around with the planet’s climate; while in the end we might just need to dump the old bad and worse banks, install new ones with new money and hopefully better regulations and controls in place we will not be able to give up this planet and try another one just because our engineers missed a point or two, five or ten years earlier.
In the ideal world it was God who was creative for seven days; one can discuss the story and the outcome, especially since mankind obviously is not so far talented enough to manage this ideal planet; we need to be doing our homework, not trying at playing God.
Carpe diem
Can geo-engineering rebuild the planet?
As global warming worsens, the idea of vast projects to alter the Earth's environment is moving from fantasy to necessity.
By Sanjida O'Connell
Comment on the above article:
In a parallel world banks are just about to create bad banks – or should we say bad banks are creating worse banks? - to set aside the dirt they played with but are now fed up with; it seems that some so-called scientists are trying to follow a similar route by playing around with what the planet balanced all by itself while traveling millions and billions of years through space enabling life to develop.
Little do we know about the climate per se, we are fishing in muddy waters when it comes to understand the correlations of materials and processes on a global scale, invent climate models that forget to take into account that white ice reflects sunlight better than dark waters and the same ice when thawing might get covered with water which then accelerates the thawing process; we forget the ozone hole’s influence on Antarctica only to find out that it is subject to the same warming patterns like the vastness of the rest of the planet, we regard wood as carbon neutral and nuclear power as a necessity – and then we want to geo-engineer this planet?
Frightening; Orwell’s ideas about 1984 would seem like heaven compared to a scenario where it was declared a necessity to play around with the planet’s climate; while in the end we might just need to dump the old bad and worse banks, install new ones with new money and hopefully better regulations and controls in place we will not be able to give up this planet and try another one just because our engineers missed a point or two, five or ten years earlier.
In the ideal world it was God who was creative for seven days; one can discuss the story and the outcome, especially since mankind obviously is not so far talented enough to manage this ideal planet; we need to be doing our homework, not trying at playing God.
Carpe diem
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