Doctor Evil, AKA, Professor Lowell Wood has a plan to save the planet. It is a very long read, but worth it. Here's a Tim bit....
According to Hoffert, the 850 coal-fired plants projected to be built worldwide in the next decade or so will emit five times more carbon dioxide than will be reduced under the Kyoto treaty on global warming. Add in 100 million newly rich Chinese road-tripping in their SUVs, and you can see why a growing number of scientists believe we are approaching a climate catastrophe faster than we think. Paul Crutzen, a respected atmospheric chemist who won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on ozone depletion, recently suggested that it is time to consider "last resort" options -- including the idea championed by Wood and others to shoot sulfate particles into the stratosphere.
Now do yourself a big favour and go read the whole article at Rollingstone.com
H/T to Wednesday Keller in the comments over at Chucker Canuck
2 comments:
Oh man.... that's all we need is for these people to start screwing with the atmosphere, when they can't even look at, and admit to, the proportional warming on the other planets.
I does believe our brains are shrinking.... Common sense, reason, logic, ect... all gone...
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