Comments on: REVIEW: Climate Change — The Moral Choices https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2013/05/06/8266/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sandy H. Nixon https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2013/05/06/8266/#comment-30077 Sandy H. Nixon Sat, 11 May 2013 19:27:01 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=8266#comment-30077 The views on the necessity and acceptability of geoengineering are grossly dividing (see Ikle & Wood 2008; Robock 2008). In this respect, the geoengineering debate indirectly echoes the debate on policy responses to global warming. Those who deny human-induced climate change can handily take a conservative stance to geoengineering. Nevertheless, it is possible to have other reasons for controlling and manipulating the climate, such as to promote “natural” climate change, to put off the future ice-age, or to increase productivity. The views on the necessity and acceptability of geoengineering are grossly dividing (see Ikle & Wood 2008; Robock 2008). In this respect, the geoengineering debate indirectly echoes the debate on policy responses to global warming.

Those who deny human-induced climate change can handily take a conservative stance to geoengineering.

Nevertheless, it is possible to have other reasons for controlling and manipulating the climate, such as to promote “natural” climate change, to put off the future ice-age, or to increase productivity.

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