"Anthropogenic Climate Change"
Posted by fivedollargold 12 years, 1 month ago to Science
First, it was "global cooling." Then it was "global warming." Next came "climate change." Now we see the term "anthropogenic" meaning "man-made." BTW, this organization bills itself as seeking causes that do the most good for the most people. Leaving that aside, it is interesting that their "shallow" research (their term, not mine) on this topic fails to consider sources in opposition to their anthropogenic assumption. Perhaps, they take President Obama at his word when he said the the SOTU speech that the climate change debate is settled.
SOURCE URL: http://www.givewell.org/shallow/climate-change
So not only are we faced with increased financial burdens, but we don't have any idea of what some of their experiments (cloud seeding for reflectivity, iron dust in the ocean, saving species on the verge of extinction) will have, adverse or positive.
These people are dangerous to human babies.
There's no debate about that until new evidence appears. The "debate" is just wishful thinking.
Interventions #1 and #2 in the article are all we have now, but I'm afraid they'll turn out to be a drop in the bucket. Ultimately the solution will be #4, geo-engineering, I think.
The notion of simply wishing away the problem is laughable. Right now economic activity depends on burning stuff, which gives us value now at the expense of future people who will have to clean up the mess. It makes you want to wish the problem away. The solution, at least in my guess, will come from engineering.
Stupid to experiment with Terraforming on the only habitable planet we have.