Who Will Control the Climatic Thermostat?
Environment Tuesday, April 10, 2007 . This is a SciScoop post by David Bradley
Fleming is a professor of science, technology, and society at Colby College, in Waterville, Maine.
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2 Responses to Who Will Control the Climatic Thermostat?
DV82XL
April 11th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
…the very idea that we know enough about these global-scale systems’ workings to attempt to ‘fine tune’ them is hubris of the worst kind.
April 11th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
I’ve sat through dozens of lectures and read hundreds of papers in which scientists wax lyrical about how they will control the climate through some biological or engineering effort. We cannot even predict the weather what chance have we really got of controlling the climate?
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