Mad science or a radical revolution - could refreezing the Arctic actually work?
A new report has reopened the controversy over so-called geoengineering.
Plans to save ice in the polar regions and "repair" the climate using technology are a "flawed" distraction from the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases, according to a new scientific assessment.
But Professor Martin Siegert, a glaciologist at the University of Exeter, who led the new assessment, told Sky News that using technology to fix the problem was a "false promise".
The question is trivially easy for anyone paying attention - it's mad science...
Correction - it's bent science, but we knew that too.
It's almost as if Blob media is edging painfully, step by grudging step towards a view that politically favoured scientists are not universally trustworthy. Even worse, climate sceptics may have been right for decades. My word that must sting, so go slowly chaps, it eases the pain.
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The solution to all the climate “woes” is “masterly inactivity” on our part.
From the article:
"But British scientists due to carry out one of the first trials of geoengineering in the Arctic this winter say no idea can be off the table."
I rather expect the 'no nothing and cope with the consequences if needs be' never made it onto the table.
Remember when USS Skate, in 1957, popped up at the North Pole where the ice was an incredible 0 mm thick. All around the submarine.
Since then because of Warble Gloaming ( © Grampa, ) , oops, sorry, Climate Change, the ice has decreased by a credible minus umpteen metres.
Because of this disastrous situation Climate Scientists are in sore need of your spondulicks. The BBC needs your money to pay for another expedition to show the sorry plight of seals whose numbers are threatened by the surge in polar bear numbers. The Beeb needs to hire Russia's biggest icebreaker in order to show viewers that behind the icebreaker the ice is breaking up. Unprecedented.
Meanwhile on Scotland's beaches, dead starfish are being washed up. Nothing to do with sea bottom high voltage cables which cause crabs to stop moving.
James - yes "as you were" is the way forward.
DJ - that's it, funding and more funding must the on the table, but certainly not "no more funding."
Doonhamer - and there is a photo of it after breaking through that 0 mm thick ice. Warble Gloaming seems to have put a stop to that game though, it's not where the money is.
I've just taken a look at the starfish story - that's a lot of starfish. The crabs must be celebrating.
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