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Posted By Beau7890 1 year, 3 months ago in Science & TechnologyLast year, a private company proposed "fertilizing" parts of the ocean with iron, in hopes of encouraging carbon-absorbing blooms of plankton. Meanwhile, researchers elsewhere are talking about injecting chemicals into the atmosphere, launching sun-reflecting mirrors into stationary orbit above the earth or taking other steps to reset the thermostat of a warming planet.
This technology might be useful, even life-saving. But it would inevitably produce environmental effects impossible to predict and impossible to undo. So a growing number of experts say it is time for broad discussion of how and by whom it should be used, or if it should be tried at all.
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Beau78901 year, 3 months ago
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Is it too much to ask scientists to consider the implications of their research, some of the unintended effects it may have, and some of the potentially unsavory ways the results might be used?
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I'm not saying anyone should actively prevent scientists from developing new technologies. And I don't think it's possible to anticipate their every possible use, or all of the evils they might unleash upon the world. I just think they should think about these things, and take some responsibility for their creations. -
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kboy1 year, 3 months ago
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Before we start tinkering with large scale fixes, we need to identify exactly what the problem might be. Only 40 years ago, the top guy at NASA (who now spouts off about Global Warming) was spouting off on Global Cooling. Extremists cherry pick date to fit a theory and then say with a few million dollars they can demonstrate a cure, but if you wait to look at their data, it will be too late to act. Oh Yea, and if you question their data, you are part of the Bush administration so they will sue you.
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