Comments on: Can Artificial Trees Help Fight Global Climate Change? http://www.j-lweb.co.uk/2009/08/27/climate/can-artificial-trees-help-fight-global-climate-change/ Because it's nice to share Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:20:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jean-Louphttp://www.j-lweb.co.uk/2009/08/27/climate/can-artificial-trees-help-fight-global-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Jean-Loup Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:56:33 +0000 http://www.j-lweb.co.uk/?p=448#comment-44 Note that my reserves on the viability of the technology isn't so much that it will bring about armageddon but that geoengineering is just another form of using the planet as a test tube and consequently we can't be sure what the outcome will be. Might help lots, might mess things up even more. Note that my reserves on the viability of the technology isn’t so much that it will bring about armageddon but that geoengineering is just another form of using the planet as a test tube and consequently we can’t be sure what the outcome will be. Might help lots, might mess things up even more.

]]> By: Hughhttp://www.j-lweb.co.uk/2009/08/27/climate/can-artificial-trees-help-fight-global-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Hugh Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:09:07 +0000 http://www.j-lweb.co.uk/?p=448#comment-42 But you're not talking about temperature above, you're talking about CO2 ppm, which is rather easier to measure. Too little CO2? Turn the buggers off. Too much? Turn them on again... Obviously it's not quite that simple, but I see no compelling argument why these devices are likely to bring about The End Of All Things either. But you’re not talking about temperature above, you’re talking about CO2 ppm, which is rather easier to measure. Too little CO2? Turn the buggers off. Too much? Turn them on again…

Obviously it’s not quite that simple, but I see no compelling argument why these devices are likely to bring about The End Of All Things either.

]]> By: Jean-Louphttp://www.j-lweb.co.uk/2009/08/27/climate/can-artificial-trees-help-fight-global-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Jean-Loup Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:25:09 +0000 http://www.j-lweb.co.uk/?p=448#comment-41 It's not that simple. You can't build those kind of devices as if they were some kind of giant thermostats. There's a lag between the amount of carbon you put / take out of the atmosphere and the changes it has on global temperatures, ocean acidification and so on. You may end up having to turn them off when it's far too late to do so. It’s not that simple. You can’t build those kind of devices as if they were some kind of giant thermostats. There’s a lag between the amount of carbon you put / take out of the atmosphere and the changes it has on global temperatures, ocean acidification and so on. You may end up having to turn them off when it’s far too late to do so.

]]> By: Hughhttp://www.j-lweb.co.uk/2009/08/27/climate/can-artificial-trees-help-fight-global-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Hugh Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:19:21 +0000 http://www.j-lweb.co.uk/?p=448#comment-40 "Climate Change is a global phenomenon, what would happen if those devices turned out to be too efficient? " Erm, turn some of them off? “Climate Change is a global phenomenon, what would happen if those devices turned out to be too efficient? ”

Erm, turn some of them off?

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