RE: Geoengineering ...
March 16, 2011 at 5:04 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2011 at 6:35 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 16, 2011 at 4:48 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: How the hell are we supposed to deliberately manipulate the Earth's climate?
Its no different than terraforming in that its way beyond humanity's technological capabilities.
We manipulate the earth's climate by altering the visible light reflection properties of the surface and the infra-red absorption properties of the atmosphere.
(March 16, 2011 at 5:00 pm)theVOID Wrote: It is only considered Geoengineering if the intent is to change the climate, much the same as material engineering requires intent to create a product, if I throw plastic and wool into a fire and they melt together I'm not a material engineer.
No, but I suspect civilizations with potential take inadvertant consequence as inspiration for engineering, civilization moribund looks at inadvertant consequences with horror and avoids anything that could ever be remotely connected to it.
