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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: 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.