If the thought of seeding our oceans with iron, or placing giant mirrors in space seems a little over the top at this point, I promise you're not alone. The condition of the planet doesn't seem quite bad enough to risk undertaking any of these creepy geoengineering schemes, but researchers in England say that we need to have a last-ditch plan ready and waiting. According to professor Brian Launder of the University of Manchester, it's like we're in WW2 and we don't have started developing the atom bomb.The position taken by Launder and Cambridge University's Michael Thompson, is that things are worse than we thought. Governments and world leaders are failing to make any real progress and the only way out may be to intentionally alter our climates. In their own words:
"While such geoscale interventions may be risky, the time may well come when they are accepted as less risky than doing nothing."What do you guys think? At what point would you be willing to gamble on a plans to launch relective space mesh or re-ice the Arctic?
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