Posted by Sigismund on February 6, 2009, at 17:21:31
In reply to Re: Global Warming or Cooling? You asked :-) » jay_bravest_face, posted by gabbette on February 5, 2009, at 20:42:37
In the paper the other day scientists said they now think that the temperature of the Indian Ocean has more effect on our climate then the el nino/la nina pattern of the Pacific Ocean, meaning we may be able to make much better long range weather predictions for Australian farmers.
All this is in its infancy.
But you know, there have been proposals to put urea into the oceans to precipitate algal blooms or some such to soak up CO2 (rejected it seems). Again, there have been serious scientific proposals to blast SO2 into the stratosphere to soak up radiation.
The question of who is responsible is not the main issue. What is important is to get alternative non-nuclear energy production up and running so that we do not end up facing much worse alternatives down the track than we do at the moment. Not to speak of the whole sorry oil business and the terrorist imperative to attack it wherever possible, which will only become more acute.
And this could happen. The US can do this sort of thing when it puts its mind to it.
Too much of Australia is a coal quarry to expect much of us, I'm afraid.
I think Germany has gone some way toward this.....they were importing the rubbish from Naples and turning it into power
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