Discovery News – September 13, 2010
Every day seems to bring another bad piece of news about global warming. Just this month, we found out the oceans are saltier than ever and 2010 will probably be the warmest on record, so it’s clear that we have a serious problem on our hands.
A solution that some scientists have been touting is so-called “geoengineering,” which we’ve written about before. Basically, that means it’s not enough for us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions alone to fight global warming. Rather, we have to engineer the Earth’s atmosphere to deal with more carbon dioxide and methane than it’s equipped to handle.
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The New York Times – September 1, 2010
With the publication of his 2001 book, “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish economics professor, became a leading contrarian voice on global warming and a leading opponent of carbon reduction efforts like the Kyoto Protocol.
Mr. Lomborg did not dispute that adding greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide to the atmosphere was warming the climate; rather, he argued that the vast expense of reining in emissions would far outweigh the benefit deferred by the resultant effect on global temperatures.
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Leighton Steward, a scientist who used to back the man-made global warming theory is on Capitol Hill this week to convince lawmakers that global warming is more related to solar activity and that cutting CO2 levels in our atmosphere could actually have a negative effect on our planet. Read the rest of this entry »