The Millions Funding Geoengineering {Bill Gates among wealthy funding large-scale geoengineering}

[xchrom]

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/06

As scientists search for a plan to deal with climate change, some have pushed for a controversial approach known as geoengineering, a technological fix for climate change that involves efforts such as reflecting solar energy back into space or fertilizing the oceans.

Bill Gates is among other wealthy individuals financially backing scientists to lobby governments to push geoengineering, raising concerns that this small group may have a large impact on further decisions on geoengineering.

The Guardian reports:

Concern is now growing that the small but influential group of scientists, and their backers, may have a disproportionate effect on major decisions about geoengineering research and policy.

"We will need to protect ourselves from vested interests [and] be sure that choices are not influenced by parties who might make significant amounts of money through a choice to modify climate, especially using proprietary intellectual property," said Jane Long, director at large for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US, in a paper delivered to a recent geoengineering conference on ethics.

[RKP5637]

1. Funny how earth evolved millions of years without this crap. Mankind in

the big picture in the long term will be its own demise.

[XemaSab]

2. There's no way this can possibly go wrong

[xchrom]

3. right?

[hootinholler]

4. At this point it may be the only option

The problem is the systems being mucked with are not fully understood and exhibit chaotic interactions. Then there will be the random event like a large volcanic eruption which could put us into a winter phase for a few years.

Damned if we do and damned if we don't.