SETH BORENSTEIN | 04/ 8/09 09:29 PM | AP
WASHINGTON — Tinkering with Earth’s climate to chill runaway global warming _ a radical idea once dismissed out of hand _ is being discussed by the White House as a potential emergency option, the president’s new science adviser said Wednesday. That’s because global warming is happening so rapidly, John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month. One option raised by Holdren and proposed by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays.
Below is what US temperature anomalies have looked like since October 1. Most of the country has been running well below normal for almost half a year, after one of the coldest summers on record in the midwest.
Holdren is worried that global warming is accelerating very quickly. He also thinks that Arctic Ice is going to disappear in as little as six years.
His concern is that the United States and other nations won’t slow global warming fast enough and that several “tipping points” could be fast approaching. Once such milestones are reached, such as complete loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic, it increases chances of “really intolerable consequences,” he said…..Earth could be as close as six years away from the loss of Arctic summer sea ice, he said
Holdren also criticized Bush for using NASA money to go to the Moon, when it would be better spent on Mann.
He said the Bush administration’s plan to return astronauts to the moon was underfunded so money was taken from science and aeronautics. Those areas, including climate change research, were “decimated,” he said.
Obama still plans to increase funding to climate scientists, who have no doubt shown themselves worthy of praise, adulation and funding.
Holdren obviously has unresolved issues with humanity.
His sterilization-schemes are reminiscent of WWF:s.
see:
http://dieoff.org/page119.htm
linked from wwf:
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/teacher_resources/webfieldtrips/population_growth/pop_density/
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It is not difficult to guess who the latest James Bond Villain, Dominic Green (Quantum of Solace), is in real life.
Dominic Green is obviously based on Maurice Strong, cofounder of landgrabbing WWF, long time Rockefeller friend etc.
So I took a peek at IMDB to se if there was any info on “Dominic Green”, and yes, He was initially named “Maurice Green”.
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0056473/
The writer of the movie is canadian, like I believe strong is.
Anyway, dont be surprised If Bonds next arch-villain is a presidential science advicer, scheming to cool the world into a new ice age.
IF (Case A) we set this up (cost: 6 cents per American), and never use it because we’d need a SUPER EL NINO before the Ice thickens back up again …
Case B. We make it slightly colder & have to shovel more. Ahhhh.
Case C.
……. …….. 6 Billion people Die. 99% of Americans die. I die. You die. Ouch. — but we each saved 6 cents !
Unfortunately we missed Case A. We did NOT set it up, and the Super El nino is upon us, due to Freak volcanic activity off Tonga.
We can still avert it. But it would have to be right away.
And we’d never know if the big Collapse WOULD Occur because 2007’s sudden Plunge came without indication, right at mid year. And if we wait till then it’ll be too late.
Note that I attribute our Risk to a mostly NATURAL event. Not AGW.
The Ice was similarly thin in 1950-55 = 1 60-year Oscillation ago. We just did not have such an event then.
Rats! So AGW isn’t real??? And I was banking on having ocean-views here in the Poconos of Northeast PA.
Seriously, love your blog.
For once, we were hotter than my in-laws out in imperial Valley! (I live in central Virginia). We were just paying our dues for our record snow this winter. I loved it!