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Jonah Lehrer is a contributing editor at Wired. He's also written for The New Yorker, Seed, Nature, and the New York Times and is a contributor to Radiolab. He's the author of Proust Was A Neuroscientist. His new book is How We Decide.
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Posted on: December 15, 2006 10:41 AM, by Jonah Lehrer
Just when I thought we are all doomed to inhabit a planet of acidic oceans and infernal heat, I learn that the Pentagon's top weaponeer - nicknamed Dr. Evil - will save us all from global warming.
PS. Did you know that the the army can create rain? I sure didn't.
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Its interesting how all these proposed megatech "solutions" only deal with warming, not acidification of the oceans due to increased carbon dioxide, which seems to be totally ignored in the mainstream media.
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Scary. This sums it up best:
"The chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere is exceedingly complex," Oppenheimer says. "You're trading one destructive environmental problem for another -- not a good idea, either in the short run or the long run."
Posted by: oku | December 15, 2006 12:32 PM