The Big Question: Is there a technological solution to the problem of global warming?

[Paul mabbott]

The one proposed "fix", seeding the seas with iron, seems not to be an option - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7959570.stm- indeed many think that the idea would be very dangerous and counter-productive.

Basically engineers have a very simplistic view of life: all processes can be reduced to simple formulae .... whereas life-processes are very different, complex and not really understood, even by the best of ecologists. Which is why biologists would urge caution - and drown all engineers in the sea!

[Bullseye]

More on Fe seeding here Watts Up With That? ,
You know,while many people have taken up AGW as almost a religion,please remember it's only a consensus it it not SCIENCE !,many who were quoted from the IPCC have now publicly said they were misquoted.
Gore,Hansen,Hathaway et al, have been see to be wrong about many things.I mean, politicians jumping on the bandwagon should have been everyones "wake up call". Just imagine this scenario,eventually AGW is realised to be false,will people EVER trust Science again?.
Please do your own research,don't just believe what you are told !,it will take time but it's worth it,if you can't be bothered,that's up to you.
ps, remember Prof David Bellamy?,wonder why he's not been on TV?,that my dear students will be your first task !

(reread this,don't mean to be condesending,it's just my way !)

[Digit]

Bellamy is being ostracised 'cos he's singing from a different hymn book to the TV company's agenda, but he's still out there talking sense.
Who says censorship no longer exists?

Roy.

[Bumblebeebob]

I think the problems from over population will eclipse anything global warming may or may not bring. By 2030 the world population is estimated to rise to 9 Billion. Added to that ever dwindling resources will lead to conflicts. The current population is around 6 billion with scientists already saying the world can only support 2 Billion comfortably (pre-industrial revolution levels) in the long term.

BBC NEWS | UK | Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'

[Bumblebeebob]

Another ice bridge has ruptured in the Antarctic, if anything is to be done about GW then it should be sooner rather than later!

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Ice bridge ruptures in Antarctic

[MrLouKnee]

its still summer in the antartic, and believe it or not, snow actually melts in the summer

the bbc will soon forget the antarctic as winter comes and eveything freezes and concentrate their propaganda on the arctic, cos believe it or not, snow actually melts in summer

[Digit]

And apparently the Arctic ice cap gained about a metre this winter.

Roy.

[MrLouKnee]

BBCs enviro nut roger harrabin emails leaked

YouTube - Glenn Beck and NewsBusters Expose Global Warming Bullies

[matt_xyz]

Originally Posted by MrLouKnee

its still summer in the antartic, and believe it or not, snow actually melts in the summer

the bbc will soon forget the antarctic as winter comes and eveything freezes and concentrate their propaganda on the arctic, cos believe it or not, snow actually melts in summer

so why hasn't it melted in previous summers? This bridge has been monitored since the 1930s (but was known to exist before that) but only started melting in the late 1990s.

Matt

[matt_xyz]

Originally Posted by Digit

Bellamy is being ostracised 'cos he's singing from a different hymn book to the TV company's agenda, but he's still out there talking sense.
Who says censorship no longer exists?

Roy.

The slight flaw in this argument is that Bellamy hadn't worked for the BBC for several years before he became a climate skeptic. He doesn't always talk sense either - he made a couple of very well publicised gaffs on climate change when he got his numbers wrong.

Matt