What can you tell me about this? (The INTENTIONAL altering of Earth's atmosphere or other parts of the biosphere to suit human requirements, including potentially to mitigate global warming.)
Here are some links to clue you in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_engineering
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1720049_1720050_1721653,00.html
Would you trust the US military to tinker with the planet? (any more than they already do). [Millitary scientists have the resources to conduct this type of secret project, which universities or other publicly accountable bodies lack.]
This is not paranoid rambling: there really are scientists toying with these ideas.
"We should treat these ideas like any other research and get into the mind-set of taking them seriously," said Ralph J. Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington. (New York Times, 27th June 2006.)
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