http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105483423

I like Enslaved's theory of sweeping the earth clean with fire.

Guy doing it is an idiot. There's some other dude that has had like 50 discovery channel specials that wants to send a billions of lenses into space to deflect part of the suns rays. Something like 2%.

that seems like a good idea with bad consequences... or a bad idea with still bad consequences...

awe.. I was going to find a burns pic too.

this idea needs more SUVs

ha it was the first thing that came to mind when i saw the article

Shade = no energy for plants = this sounds like a Dr. Evil plan

I read as "shredding the earth" and thought this would be a Bova thread.

Rich Bova is going to stand in front of the sun to save our planet from melting into oblivion

shred that shit!

Rich Bova will use his super speed double picking abilities to create a sonic boom, which will deflect the rays from the sun and melt the crust of the planet Mercury

ITT: Everyone getting beaten to a Mr. Burns reference.

This is just like when Mr. Bu---damn, nevermind

bahahahaha

OR we could maybe stop destroying it instead?

hahah Ken

nah we'll just make more laws and regulations. that usually fixes everything

THE LIBERAL SUN IS MAKING US A POLICE STATE!!

ONLY SKYNET IS REAL

Anthropogenic global climate change is a contestable theory.

I really don't care if its being used as a way to push for more renewable energy, responsible land management and a reason to increase funding for more climatologists' research.

However I do find it irritating when respectable news organizations give more than a deserved voice to crackpots. Any meteorologist will tell you we need much more research to really understand how the climate works, how could we possibly responsibly alter it?

Global Warming = Carbon Tax


just another scam by the powers that be to get more money out of businesses and companies. companies that dont meet the requirements of new regulations set by goverment for carbon emission will be taxed, at which point the costs are passed on to the consumers.

Fuck is my signature = correct.

Yeah so let's just let companies keep burning fossil fuels without somemeans of stopping or inhibiting them. Plus all that money we were going to get from the carbon tax, pft who needs to use it to fund research into alternate fuels, they already have wayyyyyy too much funding.

so were going to essentially create our own minute nuclear winter? bad idea!

I was saying boo-urns.

We are all being taken advantage of by the elite. Sadly, greed is not only destroying society from within, but outside of us planet Earth is getting tortured as well. Sounds like hippy-talk, but in all honestly I don't give a fuck. We are destroying this planet by taking advantage of our natural resources and handling them the wrong way, all while not really realizing that the one thing that houses us is slowly dying.
We only care about profit and money and power, nothing else.

Anyone that goes outdoors to enjoy nature should fully understand that we should not take it for advantage and most of earth's wildernesses are disappearing at an alarming rate. Preserving land and habaitats in state and national parks are a start, but it's the human greed that needs to reverse.

The same elite destroying the planet are also the same provocateurs that are offering us the solution: GO GREEN. No one is saying that rapid industrialization hasn't had a damaging effect on the environment, but there are also other natural, underlying causes as well. Taxing us to breathe is what this is leading to. Teslarian technology or you're a... ah, fuck it.

the only part of this i disagree with is where you say "not really realizing". they absolutely realize it, they are all fully aware of what's happening, but for them its either change their cushy lives and massive salaries or sacrifice a lot for the sake of the planet. perfect example of NIMBY.

Bring on the ice age. I'm ready, along with all the other neanderthals on this board.

i'll be right at home. Yeti's FTW

Seriously.