And Warmists have ideas!
10 years to save planet Earth: Here are 6 imaginative climate change solutions
A giant parasol that hovers high in orbit to block the sun. Refreezing the melting poles by making submarine-sized ice cubes. Pumping extra carbon dioxide deep underground for indefinite storage. Spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to form clouds to artificially cool the Earth.
As global warming becomes direr – and nations dither about decreasing emissions – could these controversial technological fixes known as geoengineering buy us time to move away from burning fossil fuels?
Scientists say that transition needs to be well underway in the next 20 years. While geoengineering isn’t a replacement for moving to a carbon-neutral economy, it’s increasingly been seen as something we need to explore as a stopgap.
We don’t have much time, said Hugh Hunt, an engineering professor at Cambridge University in England, where he directs the Center for Climate Repair.
He compares geoengineering to the often harsh and sometimes dangerous chemotherapy used to treat cancer.
“I’m no more pro-geoengineering than someone working on chemotherapy is pro-chemotherapy. But if someone has cancer, you try chemotherapy,†he said.
And the ideas?
- Sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere
- Creating clouds with sulfur
- Dump iron shavings into the ocean
- A giant sunshade orbiting the Earth
- Refreeze the polar ice caps
- Wrap glaciers in thermal blankets
Anyhow, when Doom fails to arrive in 10 years, does this mean we won’t have to see and hear stories on climate doom?
