Geo-engineering: The radical ideas to combat global warming

[Timeisshort]

Just came across this on the Guardian

Artificial clouds to reflect away sunlight, creating colossal blooms of oceanic algae and the global use of synthetic carbon-neutral transport fuels are just three of the climate transforming technologies in need of urgent investigation, according to leading scientists. The eminent group argue that, with governments failing to grasp the urgent need for measures to combat dangerous climate change, radical – and possibly dangerous – solutions must now be seriously considered.

CAN YOU SAY CHEM TRAILS !!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... edhabitats

[Laudenum]

The oceanic algae isn't actually crazy.
It could work.
It would just be awkward.

[20000miles]

The oceanic algae isn't actually crazy.
It could work.
It would just be awkward.

I agree. It's a shame that environmentalists don't support it because the plan doesn't involve the destruction of the capitalist world.

[ibis]

The oceanic algae isn't actually crazy.
It could work.
It would just be awkward.

I agree. It's a shame that environmentalists don't support it because the plan doesn't involve the destruction of the capitalist world.

That is something of an ongoing problem, admittedly. Mind you, there's also the question of unexpected side-effects.

[Thranduil]

They are starting to give serious thought to making the Sahara desert bloom.

The Sahara Forest project would marry huge greenhouses with concentrated solar power (CSP), which uses mirrors to focus the sun's rays and generate heat and electricity. The installations would turn deserts into lush patches of vegetation, according to its designers, and without the need to dig wells for fresh water, which has depleted acquifers in many parts of the world.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... solarpower

Has a certain elegance, two resources are inexhaustible, water from the oceans and light from the sun, there is a desert there which is not doing much good as far as global warming is concerned so why not make it useful? The only drawback i could see is if this affects weather patterns, i understand that the sand content in the air plays a major role in the formation of storm systems off the West coast of Africa which go on to be hurricanes tormenting America, having said that surely they cannot make the project big enough to have a major effect on sandstorm activity? When you change anything in the environment there are winners and losers, every change benefits some species/geographic regions to the detriment of others.