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THE STATE OF GEOENGINEERING SOLUTIONS FOR GLOBAL WARMING

Today, for sci-tech day, I reach back to three postings on geoengineering solutions for climate warming.  Here is a quick history of this field. I was working in the U.S. Senate from 1979 to 1982, and global warming was not at all an issue. It took another decade for scientists to come to a conclusion that all those fossil fuel emissions are beginning to affect our climate. In the early 90's I led a national effort to include some thinking about solutions to remediate the Greenhouse Gas effect, in addition to all the necessary monitoring and modeling work that was ongoing. So the following postings provide some details of my involvement. An early one was on 23September 11, where I was serializing  SIMPLE SOLUTION ESSAYS , with a particular focus on Geoengineering of Climate Change. This particular book drew together some of my  Huffington Post  articles. The notion of geoengineering at a global scale scares most.  Their argument is, we have so screwed up our planet that to entrust