Climate Scientists Turning to Technology For Global Warming Solution

Someone is very wrong about Global Warming. Christopher Booker of the Telegraph offers six reasons why Global Warming is not happening. Meanwhile, there's growing evidence that the real debate over climate change isn't whether or not it's happening, but rather whether or not it can be stopped. A poll of 80 international specialists in climate science taken by The Independent reveals that over half of them believe that it's too late to "save the earth" by curbing emissions and that we must now develop a technological solution to global warming.

Booker, a Global Warming denier, tends to isolate his facts so that the context that explains them is missing, leaving tidbits like "Temperatures are falling, not rising." Blogger Greenfrye retorts, "[The article] repeats the silly "temperatures falling" myth when it is well known that every new record high is followed by several cool years. That's how it's been happening for 50 years and no one expected it to be different this time, contrary to what the article claims." Booker also claims, "The earth was hotter 1,000 years ago." To which Frye responds, "[Booker] repeats the "it was hotter during the Medieval Warm Period" fable, which is both false (here, here, and here) and irrelevant. Even if it had been warmer that tells us nothing about why it is getting warmer now." Greenfrye goes on to pick apart Booker's claims one by one.

The Independent article offers some possible techniques that scientists might employ to head off global warming. They include: injecting the air with particles to reflect sunlight, creating low clouds over the oceans, fertilizing the sea with iron filing, mixing the deep water of the ocean, and giant mirrors in space. Many scientists believe that this approach is a diversion from the real solution, Kyoto-style curbs on carbon emissions. 35 per cent of the climatologists responding to The Independent's poll disagreed with the need for a technological remedy.