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ONTARIO ! How many times do you have to spell out the unbearable negative impacts of Nuclear power?

I just read a very intense article named “Plan B for Global Warming” by Jonathon Gatehouse
it pretty much wraps up the fact that most concious poeple in this world (including Obama and UK’s the Royal Society) fear climate change as much as I do.
So there is more and more interest and financial aid to research a back up plan for Climate Change; all schemes designed to re-direct a fraction of the sun’s rays back to the universe and give us more time to wake up CUT OUR GREENHOSUE GASES.

Some ideas are
seeding the stratosphere with Sulphate or other particles,
covering deserts with reflective material,
developing millions of lenses the size of doughnuts in geostationary orbit between the sun and the earth,
the creation of vast banks of artificial clouds over the world’s ocean.

YES, we are talking some very serious global manipulations here, they are naming this field of research geoengineering. The terrifying thing is that geoengineering is such a new endeavour that some are sceptical that we are moving too fast. On the ground level, there are more unknowns than knows. No one knows how our climate would react to such massive invasions, no one know what would happen downstream. Could our ecosystems haddle the massive influx of sulphur? Would our marine life and oceans be able to be the CO2 sink they are expected to be, and would a colder arctic affect the tropics rain patterns? Cutting edge geoengineering defies the United Nations ban - but that didn’t stop the joint Indian-German expedition in January this year dumping 20 tonnes of iron sulfate particles off Antactica hoping to yeild a higher population of the CO2 eating plankton. To reference our previous statement of an unbalanced ratio of known to unknows; shrimp ended up eating all the plankton blooms. We can never truly measure the effects on the ecosystem, but we can measure the fact that that geoengineering attempt failed.
Even with so many unknows and such limited public awarness, last week President Obama’s Cheif science adviser John Holdren, revealed his research to scatter sulphates in the upper atmosphere to replicate a volcano.

Have we created a whole new challenge because of our inaction to reduce our greenhouse gases…

I know the economy is bad and it’s tooo easy to talk about these days… but if you take a step back- what the heck does the big picture look like?

Climate Change is at the point of no return; even if greenhouse gas emissions halted today, that means completely reduced to zero emissions worldwide, it will take 1, 000 years to dissipate the alarming amount of CO2 we have dumped into our atmosphere… worldwide temperatures would still rise about 3/4 of a degree Celsius.

Global Carbon emissions have grown 3.5 % a year since 2000.

It is estimated that by 2013 our arctic waters will be ice-free during the summer
and
sea levels are rising a centimetre a year estimating to be 78cm higher by century’s end.

This means the terrifying worst case scenario etched by the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) is much too optimistic at this point.

The Independent, a British Newspaper surveyed 80 international climate specialists to discover that 54% of them are so scared that they believe we need a plan B.

Do you morally agree that we (globally) should start making a back up plan for our royally dense and irresponsible inactions? and how unknown and intimidating could these plan Bs be.

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