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Quote by: xyzer  jamesbdunn's article is promising but it hypothesizes that humans can control climate by using other energy sources? Good idea but will the use of other energy sources do any more that lessen anthropogenic CO2 which I don't agree will be a deciding factor in climate change?
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Naturally occuring greenhouse gas production will occur regardless of human actions; like volcano emissions, peet methane release,....
However, we can control the temperature distributions over the Earth by shading various percentages of the Earth; which allows us to actively control the weather.
Additionally, by providing abundant clean energy to power our interests, we can help to control the volume of greenhouse gases that is due to human activities.
What I'm proposing is that we actively control the environment, regardless of natural and human emissions. But to do so in such a way that provides a stable environment so that if any portion of the system fails (meteor shower), that the Earth won't fall off into an unstable condition.
I propose we nudge our weather conditions by mostly depriving the Earth of solar energy (reflecting energy before it hits our atmosphere over specific locations; glaciers, hurricanes, ...). Only contributing to heating of the Earth in select locations and times to prevent extreme conditions that would have destructive consequences (tornados, monsoons, emergency relief, ...).
The following is a compelling argument that makes siting around and doing nothing, unthinkable:
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