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- gadgeek, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Reminds me a lot of "The End," a book by climatologist and physicist Dr. Larry Ephrim (sp?). It seems to be well out of print now, but in the late 1980s, the book forecast an approaching ice age, on the evidence that atmospheric CO2 had increased 70 percent since the start of the industrial revolution, and that increased atmospheric CO2 had preceded earlier ice ages, according to the geologic record. I think it's more like 130 percent by now. Ephrim's proposed solution? Use the remaining hydrocarbon energy reserves to grind up as much rock as possible, thereby simulating the effects of an ice age. The ground rock was to be sprinkled over farmlands and forests, building up the biosphere to increase the earth's carbon capturing apparatus. Kind of impressed by the book, which had a Veliskovskian quality, I went to see Ephraim speak at a book signing in San Francisco. He was so thin, nervous, and unhealthy looking that I decided the doom he apprehended was probably his own. Anyway, both approaches seem full of hubris too me.
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