<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ced03fdf-aa0d-4b88-8978-549b001e69f4/1E4396AD-2BF5-4955-845C-40B71E75241C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/15/geo-engineering-is-not-the-answer/" href="http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/15/geo-engineering-is-not-the-answer/" style="font-size: 11px;">climateprogress.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/15/geo-engineering-is-not-the-answer/"><P>But I digress. We’re screwing up the planet with unrestricted greenhouse gas emissions, and the question is, do we want to try to fix that problem by gambling on some other large-scale effort to manipulate the climate — or should we just try to restrict emissions? It’s as if the doctor says you have a disease that can definitely be cured by diet and exercise but you opt for expensive chemotherapy even though the doctor can’t guarantee the results but is pretty certain the side effects would be as bad as the disease.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/15/geo-engineering-is-not-the-answer/"><P><A href="http://www.geo.mtu.edu/department/classes/ge406/achansen/graphics/ash3.jpg" title="volcano.jpg"><IMG align="right" alt="volcano.jpg" src="http://climateprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/volcano.jpg" title="volcano.jpg" /></A>Geo-engineering is “<A href="http://www.attac-hellas.org/seminars/geoengineering/programmeenglish.htm">the intentional large scale manipulation of the global environment</A>” to counteract the effects of global warming, which itself was unintentional geo-engineering — although today you’d have to say global warming is intentional, since everybody now knows what we’re doing to the planet.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/15/geo-engineering-is-not-the-answer/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/climateprogress.org/img/D3BACE0C-FA92-4AB5-84CB-6B1640B983DA" alt="volcano.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/15/geo-engineering-is-not-the-answer/"><P>Here is the abstract to the study, <A href="http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:szMEfz4Db2oJ:www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/trenberth.pdf/Trenberth%26Dai_GRL_textFigs_final.pdf+%22Effects+of+Mount+Pinatubo+volcanic+eruption+on+the+hydrological+cycle+as+an+analog+of+geoengineering%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a">“Effects of Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption on the hydrological cycle as an analog of geoengineering”</A>:</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1E4396AD-2BF5-4955-845C-40B71E75241C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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