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Any attempts to engineer the climate are likely to result in "different" climate change, rather than its elimination, new results suggest. Prof Ken Caldeira, of Stanford University, presented research at a major conference on the climate risks and impacts of geoengineering. These techniques have been hailed by some as a quick fix for climate change.
But the impacts of geoengineering on oceans, the water cycle and land environments are hotly debated. They have been discussed at a meeting this week of 12,000 scientists in Vienna. Researchers are familiar with the global cooling effects of volcanic eruptions, seen both historically and even back into the deep past of the rock record. With this in mind, some here at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly ( http://www.egu2015.eu ) have been discussing the possible worldwide consequences of pumping sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere to attempt to reflect sunlight back into space and cool the planet.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @02:02PM
What has been happening to SN? It used to be a lively place, but none of the stories on the front page are even over 50 comments. It's like nobody's commenting any longer. You know what would fix that? A good systemd discussion. There's even a systemd submission [soylentnews.org] that's been sitting in the queue for some time! It looks a lot more interesting than the other pending submissions.
(Score: 1) by kadal on Saturday April 18 2015, @02:14PM
Maybe comment more about the subject? Maybe submit more interesting stories?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @02:21PM
Why the fuck would you bother to say, "Maybe submit more interesting stories?" when the comment you replied to links to such a story?
(Score: 2) by kadal on Saturday April 18 2015, @03:29PM
That's just one. You need more to fill up the front page.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @04:17PM
Woosh!
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday April 18 2015, @02:37PM
Quality, not quantity. The majority of those large commented stories are the same division point ad nauseum from partisan sides.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @03:20PM
100 shitty comments are better than the 10 shitty comments we see now for most stories.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @06:48PM
You're completely wrong. One hundred crappy comments is empirically worse than ten crappy comments, as when someone chooses to post a good comment, it is measurably harder to find the one good comment among the 100 pieces of garbage than among the ten.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @03:22PM
> What has been happening to SN? It used to be a lively place, but none of the stories on the front page are even over 50 comments.
The weather got nicer. During the winter people were cooped up inside so more people spent time participating here. Now that it's pleasant outside, people have better things to do than sit in their basement dicking around on the internet. The membership here is so small that losing just 10-20 active posters means a significant drop in activity.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @04:08PM
Wait, are you saying that climate change is what's responsible for the decline of activity here at SoylentNews?! Fuck, man, this is hitting close to home!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @04:22PM
You know what would fix that? A good systemd discussion.
I'm waiting for GamerGate, or maybe H1-B.