From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 09:59:03 MDT
"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
>
> > It's not clear to me that we really have to fix it, or at least that
> > there is any great urgency. I expect that in a few decades even without
> > a singularity we are going to reduce our fossil emissions, and we can
> > then look at measures such as Robert describes to take carbon out of
> > the atmosphere.
>
> Precisely. The point is to show that there probably are explanations
> that people haven't considered that *should* be considered as feasible
> with not outlandish expectations about future improvements in technology.
The fact is that pilot projects with iron have already proven the
feasibility of seeding as a means of sequestration. The primary person
responsible for those projects has been lobbying in DC to engage in
these activities on a large scale, with the incentive being the ability
to sell pollution credits to utilities based on the amount of
sequestration. The Greens and other green groups, as well as the EPA and
the europeans are all against this, showing that the issue is not one of
environmental mitigation, but one exposing a strategy of the EC to
hamstring the economy of the US, increasing the cost of our goods, and
reducing the competetiveness of our products on the world market. It is
neo-imperialism masked as green politics.
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