GeoEngineering: Soultion or Risk? 4

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GeoEngineering is without a doubt a very complex venture. I completely read each story, report or whathave you that I posted links to in the earlier posts. I have had time to think about them. In the end I think that it is like a game of billards. Imagine scientists represent the cue ball and geoengineering the 9 ball.

Here are some ideas and lines that stick in my head as I walk out of this cloud (pun intended) of a subject and on to a decision:

• That, If we only combat global climate change by lowering atmospheric emissions we doomed to fail.

• That, in 300-to 1000 years (+/- 300 years) Greenland will melt. Take a good look at that again...some time between NOW and .....whatever, the time scale dosen't matter after NOW.
• The ocean level will rise between 35-45 feet. Think of how much real estate that is. Imagine NYC like Venice. And Venice it self will be gone.
  
• New ecosystems will develop as water level rises.
  

• That, scientists are claiming(my words) to have nearly 100% certainty of the result of each geoengineering method.
  
• GeoEngineeing is really really cheap. For instance the Department of Defense budget for 2007 was $439.3 billion. Geo Engineering = between 0.30 -to- 1 billion. That is like less than 1/400th the cost.
  
• Mt. Pinatubo eruption of sulfur dioxide gas gave us excellent data.
• A tread lightly but continuously is the best method.
  
• That there are a lot of balls on the table.
• A Butterfly Effect is the biggest global risk.
• The population in 2050 will be 9 Billion. It is about 6 billion now, another 33% to add.
  
• People maybe getting ill from experimentation fallout. (lo street cred.)
  
• Experiments will need to monitor and minimize human health exposures but that some exposure maybe inevitable in order to be effective at such a huge scale.
  
• Ultimately, We are damned if we do
• and damned if we don't.
  

Nature will take care of it self but that natural processes might not be best in consideration of the human factor. ...I feel like I have talked my self in a circle like a philosophical argument. Perhaps that is why they have PhDs....doctor of philosophy.

But I digress, as humans who want human life to continue on earth we have no choice...

WE MUST TRY.

Mica Fish...observations on a global scale

I was zipping around on the earth today...Google earth that is, when I came across this part of the world near the Mendocino Triple Junction.

Then using my trained geologist eye and a little computer magic overlayed the following:


Could this be a 'mica fish' on a global, crustal scale? So I quickly searched for a good photographic example of a mica fish, and found this:


Sure look similar. For the non-geologists reading the post, a mica fish is a micro-scale tectonic indicator of relative motion. Typically composed of Muscovite or biotite within a, usually, finer-grained matrix. They form in deformation zones, like faults -and their shape is a result of..well think if it like aerodynamics. The mica fish is like a Toyota Prius. All laid back, letting the world go by it.

Just thought that was pretty cool. The shape is right. The shear sense is right. Could the mica fish analogy scale up so large?

I should just be given a PhD right now.