QOTD

"I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents."
- Edward Teller

Edward Teller has an interesting take on global warming; it looks like this is from 1998.


So, Teller says, pretend we have global warming. Then you shoot particles in the sky (ala a volcano) to deflect 1% of the sunlight reaching the planet and problem solved.

Well, that's not so hare-brained (hair-brained? what's dumber... rabbits or hair?) an idea. And what costs more... slowing and taxing to death all human activity or blasting some reflective particles into the atmosphere? Shit, even I can do that math.

It's so telling (Teller telling... ugh) that even Mr. Skeptic over here (um, me) is so brainwashed that the concept of a technical solution is completely in the background and not even considered.

Teller's signature appears on the front page at the Global Warming Petition Project web site. Excellent.
yow, bill

Labels: globalwarming, qotd