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That's a really interesting comment from Chu

I surprised he's being as straightforward as that in talking about geo-engineering, but I'm not surprised be thinks it will be needed. Any honest and competent scientist in this area would likely agree that our children will have a very lousy old age without a major engineering effort to cool down the planet.

Geo-engineering is the only alternative to a worldwide economic collapse and die-back, and I hope some realistic ideas emerge before we are too impoverished to implement them. My main fear now is that if we ramp up coal mining really fast, we will not be able to stay ahead of the greenhouse effect even with geo-engineering.

By the way, successful geo-engineering probably implies an effective world government of some form. "Give me world government or give me death," does not sound like much a slogan, but those are the choices.

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by: Mark Wallace @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 14:20:12 PM CDT