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  These people should just go get their own planet where they get whatever they want and I would like to stay here and try and save this one with a realistic approach where you actually do the hard work of figuring out how to get to 60 votes.On Groups use 350's big day to fight cap-and-trade posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago 12 Responses

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  Sophomoric.On ‘No compromise’ faction attacks climate bill posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago 104 Responses

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  Doesn’t it finally feel like we live in the future?  This just seems so Sci-Fi.

   

  But let’s be real about it, geoengineering is going to happen, just like globalization did.  We just need to think through how to do it best with the least amount of damage.  For example, China didn’t sit out on globalization because we greens didn’t like it.  And, they are certainly not going to sit by and let climate change destroy their country without taking measures within their power to try and stop it.  Neither is the US, EU, Japan, nor any nation with the means.  It just takes one sovereign that sees the writing on the wall to send a cloud of sulfur in the upper atmosphere.  It’s cheap, it can be done right now, and the stakes are way, way too high.

   

  A good climate policy will include aggressive GHG mitigation, smart planning for adaptation, and some serious research put into geo-engineering followed by the most sophisticated use of the technology coordinated amongst nations much like a global mitigation agreement.

   

  I’m very glad to see this being discussed, and I hope they get more money than just $162M per year for research.  This is something we have to face now.  I realized about 2 years ago that we were watching the beginnings of many tipping points.  See the findings of the International Polar Year.  Check out the methane deposits in the Artic Sea ice starting to become unstable.  Look at the melting permafrost.  Check out the sea level rising 2x what the worst case scenario models from IPCC predicted.  We are living in the worst case scenario right now.  Welcome to the gates of hell.

   

  Oh, but let’s pretend it’s not too late and we can finally get it together.  Obama can regulate GHGs through the EPA – nevermind the parade of lawsuits that will have to be hashed out while the glaciers melt.  Or maybe the bill gets past the Senate intact.  All we have to do is wait till Fox News gets their next drooling idiot in office and away we go!  All that our beloved climate bill tries to accomplish will be undone by the next business puppet of a president through bad policy tying the hands of the administrative agencies charged with implementing the climate bill.

   

  But, let’s keep pretending – Let’s say the Obamas get to stay in office till 2050 – Michelle in 2016, and the kids to follow.  But what about the international piece of the equation?  Look at what’s going on – we’re not going to get another Kyoto in Copenhagen.  We might get some sort of agreement, but most experts now agree that the chances of a full fledged treaty are nil to forget about it.  And all the while China and India are growing like drunken Americans.  And we’re not doing so bad either, when we’re not in a recession.  But let’s pretend we get that treaty.  What about corruption?  What about deforestation?  What about the myriad of enforcement issues around the globe?  What about wars that unseat governments that ratified the treaty?  What about all of those multinational corporations who have breaking the law as part of their business model?

   

  Let’s not allow the primordial instinct to only deal with things in our faces to doom us again.  It’s the reason we all got in this CO2 mess to begin with.  And, if we don’t learn from our mistakes (so human) we will ignore this golden opportunity to learn everything we can about geoengineering right now while we can do it with time on our side. 

   

  Think of it like the third leg of a policy stool: mitigation, adaptation, engineering.  If we don’t use it – we’ll land flat on our backs.  Perhaps with more terrible unintended consequences than all the dire predictions for catastrophic climate change.

  On Geoengineering schemes shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, scientists say posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago 9 Responses

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  I'm sure this is more complicated than it looks from the outside, but whatever - I say Go Duke!  Down with ACEEE!  Wait, I mean down with ACCCE! Up with ACEEE!  So confusing.

  On Duke Energy quits scandal-ridden American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago 4 Responses

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  Or, how about smart growth and energy efficiency?  Cheap!  Low Tech!  Here today (or kiss tomorrow goodbye).

  On Could we replace the nation's pavement with solar panels? posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago 30 Responses