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Environment & Energy

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1. Not to mention the possibility of Fireballs

Fri Feb 22, 2013, 10:07 AM

Feb 2013

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Not to mention the possibility of Fireballs Demeter Feb 2013 #1

Oooh! Aaah! hatrack Feb 2013 #2

... phantom power Feb 2013 #3

"May stick to certain types of planets" hatrack Feb 2013 #7

excuse my tangent... phantom power Feb 2013 #5

Pretty much everything. GliderGuider Feb 2013 #9

no, I mean you are missing a word in your sig line phantom power Feb 2013 #11

D'oh! GliderGuider Feb 2013 #12

"Is that understandable?" mcranor Feb 2013 #15

Question, ... do you consider energy seeking behavior, ... CRH Feb 2013 #23

Actually, we couldn't have. GliderGuider Feb 2013 #14

While that is an interesting observation. zeemike Feb 2013 #17

I understand it. zeemike Feb 2013 #20

As you say, GliderGuider Feb 2013 #21

First it is the individuals, then it is society. zeemike Feb 2013 #22

That's the fundamental misperception of how change happens. GliderGuider Feb 2013 #25

Well that is an interesting perspective. zeemike Feb 2013 #34

I agree, this is Koyaanisqatsi. GliderGuider Feb 2013 #35

We could've maybe done it 20 years ago. joshcryer Feb 2013 #27

It might have been physically possible 20 years ago. GliderGuider Feb 2013 #30

We humans tend to usually act in response to catastrophe. joshcryer Feb 2013 #31

Yep, that's the way it works. GliderGuider Feb 2013 #32

Foom! nt Javaman Feb 2013 #6

Election meltdown small potatoes? Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2013 #8

If all this methane is released in the arctic austinlw Feb 2013 #10

I think it's easy to mis-underestimate pscot Feb 2013 #24

That's the point I was responding to pscot Feb 2013 #33

Geoengineering will only happen as a response to AGW. joshcryer Feb 2013 #28