Re: [geo] Re: Nature paper on global ecological "state shift"

2012-06-08 Thread James Fleming
That Franklin quote is only part of the story. Is Africa's reflectivity lower due to racial makeup? Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new C

[geo] Re: Nature paper on global ecological "state shift"

2012-06-08 Thread Russell Seitz
In March 2009 , I noted inForeign Affairs http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65159/russell-seitz/the-next-top-model that *Geoengineering ... has been an integral part of the landscape of history. > Although Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1751,* > * "We are, as I may call it, scouring our p