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SETH BORENSTEIN | 04/ 8/09 09:29 PM | AP
WASHINGTON — Tinkering with Earth’s climate to chill runaway global warming _ a radical idea once dismissed out of hand _ is being discussed by the White House as a potential emergency option, the president’s new science adviser said Wednesday. That’s because global warming is happening so rapidly, John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month. One option raised by Holdren and proposed by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays.
Below is what US temperature anomalies have looked like since October 1. Most of the country has been running well below normal for almost half a year, after one of the coldest summers on record in the midwest.
Holdren is worried that global warming is accelerating very quickly. He also thinks that Arctic Ice is going to disappear in as little as six years.
His concern is that the United States and other nations won’t slow global warming fast enough and that several “tipping points” could be fast approaching. Once such milestones are reached, such as complete loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic, it increases chances of “really intolerable consequences,” he said…..Earth could be as close as six years away from the loss of Arctic summer sea ice, he said
Holdren also criticized Bush for using NASA money to go to the Moon, when it would be better spent on Mann.
He said the Bush administration’s plan to return astronauts to the moon was underfunded so money was taken from science and aeronautics. Those areas, including climate change research, were “decimated,” he said.
Obama still plans to increase funding to climate scientists, who have no doubt shown themselves worthy of praise, adulation and funding.
