Yes, much easier. The way to fix man made global warming is to use technologies that we are already developing/have developed and implementing them over the course of a couple decades.
I'd disagree. Whilst I think it is very unlikely that geo engineering could ever offer a solution to global warming in the short to medium term, it is just as unlikely that renweable energy could provide the answer. Wind, solar and hydro electric power options are simply not viable because they do not produce enough energy to sustain the Western lifestyle. ALternatives like bio fuel are not the key either, since there is not enough land to produce enough crops to both fuel and feed the population of the Earth.
That's the case in developed countries who have access to cleaner technologies. Places like China and India are experiencing their consumption revolution are using the most economically viable and dirtiest fuel there is, coal. This is the primary reasons their respective domestic markets have grown so rapidly in the past decade, and so I doubt it's a practice either of them are likely to drop.
In short, I highly doubt any sort of progress will be made before it is too late, even with the implementation of available technologies.
I'd disagree. Whilst I think it is very unlikely that geo engineering could ever offer a solution to global warming in the short to medium term, it is just as unlikely that renweable energy could provide the answer. Wind, solar and hydro electric power options are simply not viable because they do not produce enough energy to sustain the Western lifestyle. ALternatives like bio fuel are not the key either, since there is not enough land to produce enough crops to both fuel and feed the population of the Earth. That's the case in developed countries who have access to cleaner technologies. Places like China and India are experiencing their consumption revolution are using the most economically viable and dirtiest fuel there is, coal. This is the primary reasons their respective domestic markets have grown so rapidly in the past decade, and so I doubt it's a practice either of them are likely to drop. In short, I highly doubt any sort of progress will be made before it is too late, even with the implementation of available technologies.
Why discuss solutions to a problem that doesn't exist?
I am a fan of green technologies in moderation (not bio-fuel for the same reasons as Firefly) We can implement some of these technologies, but it simply isn't a viable option to convert to them entirely. A diversified approach to the production of energy is the solution.
Geothermal. Wind. Solar. Hydroelectric. These are the technologies that I believe are the best options. Even though hydroelectric has it's own issues...
I support them because they are good for the environment, not because I want to stop man-made global warming. There is a difference.
" the path light takes is not affected by the presence of a magnetic field"
Fields, whether they are magnetic or gravitational, only act on objects with mass, as the force they impart can be represented by the acceleration they give an object of a given mass (ie F=m*a). Photons are units of energy, but are massless. As such they wouldn't be effected by a magnetic field.
@Firefly
While renewable are fantastic and we all love them, when I refer to technology we already have I refer to nuclear power. There's enough fissionable material on the planet we could probably get away with using fission at least until we develop workable fusion power. It's cheap, clean, and the only problem is facing the political challenge of where to store the used radioactive materials (which is in my opinion a fairly small one).
Yes someone who understands also people it will go away trust me and the tons of other poeple who beleive this.
I don't think you understand the time scales involved in natural planetary shifts in temperature.
umm we don't have much info to say it's real because temperatures have only been accurately recorded (thermometers and such)for about 100 years and the global temperature has gone down in 2-4 degrees ferinheight also, one side of the poles are melting, the other side is growing.
which is why scientists called (notice: past tense) it "global warming" and now call (present tense) it climate change.
. Unfortunatley, the path light takes is not affected by the presence of a magnetic field.
i'm questionable whether or not earth's magnetic field actually diverts light. but then how does the earth's magnetic field work in blocking radiation?
uugh i'll think about this after i eat mai french fries
