U.S. should fund climate engineering research, report concludes

[Grey Fox]

Yes, the government should fund study & research.

[alfred russel]

U.S. should fund climate engineering research, report concludes


A panel of the National Research Council (NRC) is calling for federal funding of research

I'm shocked that an entity charged with overseeing research is calling for more funding of research.

[CountDeMoney]

We can't even rationally manage ourselves.  The world's doomed.

After the bottleneck event, the descendants of the rich who prepared will be the only survivors, and all humans will be depraved sociopaths.  At least everyone will be on a level playing field the next time.

I for one look forward to the Earth taking care of business Herself, and dealing with humanity on Her own terms in time.  Shame it's going to cost Her so much but that's short term, geologically speaking.

[Monoriu]

I don't know.  The increased CO2 in the atmosphere is the result of hundreds of years of human activity, the work of untold numbers of factories, cars, planes, machines working for decades.  Plus cow farting or whatever.  To reverse this entire process and return the CO2 to the underground/sea caverns borders on fantasy to me.  I am sure one can extract some CO2 from the air.  Even trees can do that.  But the scale of the effort required to have a material impact must be gigantic. 

[alfred russel]

I don't know.  The increased CO2 in the atmosphere is the result of hundreds of years of human activity, the work of untold numbers of factories, cars, planes, machines working for decades.  Plus cow farting or whatever.  To reverse this entire process and return the CO2 to the underground/sea caverns borders on fantasy to me.  I am sure one can extract some CO2 from the air.  Even trees can do that.  But the scale of the effort required to have a material impact must be gigantic.

It seems more realistic to me that we will do that than we will significantly reduce our fossil fuel usage anytime soon.

[Valmy]

It seems more realistic to me that we will do that than we will significantly reduce our fossil fuel usage anytime soon.

With Oncor's new battery scheme we might be able to phase it out on the Texas grid eventually.  I look forward to seeing how it goes.

[Eddie Teach]

After the bottleneck event, the descendants of the rich who prepared will be the only survivors,

I don't know of any scenarios where preppers survive but nobody else does. There will be opportunities to be seized.

[Maximus]

Who is going to fund this anyway?

The issue isn't who will fund it, but who will control it.