Andy Revkin posted a column today in Dot Earth in the New York Times Science section, Online. Up Next for Debae: Carbon Costs.... I submitted the following comment Andy asked, "What kind of energy or climate debate would you like to see, and what outcome?" I have read 24 comments so far and not one addressed that issue. Much of the commentary dealt with the reality of global warming AGAIN. To some extent Andy blindsided us with, and I am paraphrasing, Do we tend to the needs of the poor or do we deal with global warming first because if we don't it will only make it worse for the poor? As if we really do anything significant for the poor even in the best of times and these are close to the worst. The current world financial crisis will make it even more difficult to deal with global warming if the issue is anthropogenic greenhouse gas. So this debate is likely to enhance global warming by production of an enormous amount of hot air. The thesis is unrealistic. Incredibly, the one solution that is potentially viable and affordable has not been mentioned and is not likely to be debated. I wonder why! Maybe because it removes the hot air from the sails of all! The best solutions for cooling the planet artificially are being debated quietly by a group of international scientists/engineers, who haven't yet figured out how to work the support system. Most of them pretty much agree that there is global warming, that man is the biggest part of the problem, they worry a lot about melting arctic ice as THE most serious near term problem, and acidic oceans, and they have conceived of a number of excellent possible but so far untested solutions. Moreover they worry excessively and responsibly about the negative consequences of these solutions. I would like to see a debate on reality. Let us trade on what mankind does best; solve technical problems. This is a technical problem by virtue of the fact that the economic component is not affordable, is not definable, could not be timely, and is fraught with too much uncertainty.
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