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posted by martyb on Saturday April 18 2015, @01:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-going-to-end-well dept.

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.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32334528

 
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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @02:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @02:27PM (#172414)

    The modding here has been particularly bad lately. I've seen lots of perfectly fine comments marked as "Troll", lots of serious comments marked as "Funny", many totally-on-topic comments marked as "Off-topc", and so on.

    I know there were changes earlier about how modding is done and which options are available, but I think there's still a lot of work needed to fix up the modding here. Too often it's just plain bad, which is more harmful than not having any modding at all.

    I think it's time to show who modded each comment, and how they modded it. At least this brings some accountability into the equation. We can see who the bad mods are, and maybe make them think twice before engaging in bad modding.

    Starting Score:    0  points
    Moderation   -1  
       Troll=1, Interesting=1, Overrated=1, Total=3
    Extra 'Troll' Modifier   0  

    Total Score:   -1  
  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @03:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @03:15PM (#172427)

    Oh great, here we ago again. A couple of loudmouths who will never be satisfied because moderation doesn't always match their personal version of reality show up, start sqwaking and so we have to fuck with the system in a way that won't make a significant change in the results unless it is so terrible that it craters it.

    Just say no to more mod system fuckery.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @03:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @03:16PM (#172428)

      There's already a lack of discussion here. Bad modding just makes that worse, when good comments aren't visible by default because somebody screwed up when rating them.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @05:03PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @05:03PM (#172491)

        The moderation matches the community, as a whole. If it does not match up with your personal reality, that means that you are the problem, not the community. Going against the status quo and not going along with circlejerk groupthink is one thing, but (thankfully) this place is far from an echo chamber and anything that gets modded purely because its "against the status quo" gets fixed pretty quick, so that whatever stays modded down after about a day is because its totally fucking retarded and out of touch with reality.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @06:42PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @06:42PM (#172516)

          It can't match the community as a whole. A lot of us post as AC. We don't have accounts. We don't want accounts. So we don't get to moderate comments. Thus our views are ignored thanks to the broken moderation system that requires accounts.

          • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @07:24PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @07:24PM (#172536)

            Oh woe is you!
            Moderation is censorship, I don't want to participate so everybody else must do my bidding because logic! or winning! or something.
            It is the weekend and the moderation whiner is back!
            Didja skip your meds this week?

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @10:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @10:19PM (#172606)

      Well, that just crimps it! More modding that tries to censor perfectly good crazy conspiracy theories! When are you going to wake up, sheeple! ACs can even mod down posts by actual users! I ask you, is this fair? Where else in history have we seen this kind of mind-control? Could it be, SATAN? Climate Change could just be a natural process of inter-sessional glacial government! What if we live, in world, where non sequiturs do not follow?? Go ahead. Mod me up. Make my day, all youse SJWs!!!