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Originally Posted by E23
As sure as technology created the problem, technology can fix it. Think geo-engineering. Eg putting a reflective substance like sulphur dust in the stratosphere.
Global warming is different and is serious but I'm optimistic that we can fix it. I'm an engineer.
Andras
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Its this kind of thinking that put us in the predicament in the first place.
Engineers believe there is always a technological fix, believe me I deal with a super duper version on a regular basis, but I can assure you, nature cannot be "engineered".
To solve an engineering problem, you first have to have a detailed understanding of the system, and we aren't even in the ballpark on that when looking at the planet as a whole.
There are multi-level feedback processes that we are only touching on now, including ocean mixing rates, for example, and more we don't even know about yet. There is so much methane in deep ocean deposits and permafrost that we just can't even begin to comprehend what will happen once that starts really moving... and it's started. Temperature measurements in deep permafrost are rising way to fast and... surprise, surprise, we don't understand why
Like I said, we are screwed, but good!
If the U.S. corps of engineers is anything to go by, we might as well just burn all the coal on the planet today and get it over an done with faster
