Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, December 20, 2008 9:25:30 AM
So, it is not the fault of the industrial age that we have global warming, according to a new study out
saying the blame can now be pinned on our cave-dwelling ancestors.
Via Instapundit.
What's more, according to the same computer simulations, the cumulative effect of thousands of years of human influence on climate is preventing the world from entering a new glacial age, altering a clockwork rhythm of periodic cooling of the planet that extends back more than a million years.
"This challenges the paradigm that things began changing with the Industrial Revolution," says Stephen Vavrus, a climatologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Climatic Research and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. "If you think about even a small rate of increase over a long period of time, it becomes important."
Was this intervention morally wrong? Should some ancient Al Gorestone have lobbied Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble to stop using agriculture?
So, how do we fix it? Climate engineering. Human climate engineering on a global scale, that is.
Global warming, some have argued, can be reversed with a large-scale "geoengineering" fix, such as having a giant blimp spray liquefied sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere or building tens of millions of chemical filter systems in the atmosphere to filter out carbon dioxide.
We actually fund, through our tax dollars, universities that think up this stuff. It is really quite amazing.