June 12th, 2009
Geo-engineering can save this planet

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Do you agree ? Or is it Climate Manipulation under disguise ?

If no idea read this warning from James R. Fleming - expert in science history, weather and climate and founder of International Commission on History of Meteorology

WASHINGTON, April 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
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In the Spring issue of The Wilson Quarterly, James R. Fleming - expert in science history, weather and climate and founder of International Commission on History of Meteorology - urges caution about adopting a quick technological fix to global warming. Scientists, such as Pentagon futurist Lowell Wood and Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, are often dangerously oblivious to the political and military implications of their work, which includes proposals to pump millions of tons of reflective nanoparticles into the atmosphere or launch giant mirrors into orbit to reflect the sun's rays back into space.Inevitably, argues Fleming, national governments will try to weaponizeweather-altering technologies. And even if climate engineering succeeds, who will control the global thermostat ?

Excerpt

“Mitigation is not happening and is not going to happen,” physicist Lowell Wood declared at the NASA conference. Wood, the star of the gathering, spent four dec­ades at the University of California’s Law­rence Livermore National Laboratory, where he served as one of the Pentagon’s chief weapon designers and threat analysts. (­He reportedly enjoys the “Dr. Evil” nickname bestowed by his critics.) The time has come, he said, for “an intelligent elimination of undesired heat from the biosphere by technical ways and means,” which, he asserted, could be achieved for a tiny fraction of the cost of “the bureaucratic suppression of CO2.” His engineering approach, he boasted, would provide “instant climatic gratification.”

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Military leaders in the United States and other countries have pondered the possibilities of weaponized weather manipulation for decades. Lowell Wood himself embodies the overlap of civilian and military interests. Now affiliated with the Hoover Institution, a think tank at Stanford ­University, Wood was a protégé of the late Edward Teller, the weapons scientist who was credited with developing the hydrogen bomb and was the architect of the ­Reagan-­era Star Wars ­missile ­defense system (which Wood worked on, too). Like Wood, Teller was known for his advocacy of controversial military and technological solutions to complex problems, including the chimerical “peaceful uses of nuclear weapons.” Teller’s plan to excavate an artificial harbor in Alaska using thermo­nuclear explosives actually came close to receiving government approval. Before his death in 2003, Teller was advocating a climate control scheme similar to what Wood proposed.

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