Is bioengineering going to destroy our planet?

Question

Discovery Project Earth has a show on, that explains techniques scientists have come up with to "solve" global warming. These include: bombing the panet with seedlings from mangrove trees, launching lenses into space, manipulating plankton, and cleaning Carbon out of the air and finding a place to store it. When scientists begin to mess with our Oxygen and Carbon levels or how much sunlight the planet receives, will it kill us all?

Answer 1

There is no such thing as Global Warming (That is caused by man).  We are not the reason for climate change.  Now, if you are already mad at me for the aforementioned then, you have been mis-informed.  The term Global Warming was invented by politicians from the left of center.  It is an attention getting device to fool the masses into voting for them.  It goes back to the days of chicken little or the world is flat.  People let them selves become sheep.  Don't be fooled by the term.  This planet will rinse us off if it wants too, with instant nuclear winter or un Godly heat from the sun.  We just keep living on it as God permits.

Answer 2

To tell you the truth, I'm not certain how much of "global warming" is caused by man. Earth has been heating up and cooling down for millions of years, with ice ages and long tropical ages succeeding each other. We are just come from a fairly recent ice age, the Wurm Glaciation, of 30000 years ago. Another glacial period might be ahead of us, or perhaps we've seen the last of them for a few million years. I believe that we know little about this matter. I personally certainly do not. I have a tentative opinion that global warming is a real phenomenon.

If humans are going to do anything significant in regard to saving the planet from some sort of global disaster, then they must do it quickly, while there's still enough exosomatic energy left on Earth to do it with. Once it's gone, we're going to be back in a Medieval kind of culture, and that will last only as long as our metal tools do. When those have rusted away, we shall be back in the Stone Age once again, and this time for ever.

Answer 3

why would the goverment do something that will kill us.?????

global warming is a myth

Answer 4

It's as likely to save it.

Answer 5

I don't think most of their ideas will fly... like Spazz said...but I have to agree with one of the guys on the show about this point...Spazz said...

"The seedling bombing actually sounds like a great plan. Instead of having a hundred green peace volunteers with shovels doing it over years of time one plane can do it in a single pass. All we would be doing is restoring forests that had existed before hand. The new shore foliage will decrease land erosion and even dissipate hurricanes."

the guy on the show noted that we'd be making a mistake if we didn't plant FORESTS of lots of different trees, rather than a whole area of one kind, which wouldn't be a good thing....

the more I watched that show, the more I was convinced that if those are our best ideas, we're up the creek, kiddies!.... as to my own opinion?... gotta fix it at the source... scrubbers on the smoke stacks... alternative fuel cars... solar heating or geothermals... wind turbine....you can't fool with the sun and the clouds and such and not foul up.... ain't ours to fiddle with, ya know?....MOTHER takes care of that stuff... it's hers..... we gotta fix OUR stuff.....

Answer 6

Scientists are smarter than that. They test everything in the laboratory before they use it, unlike Star Trek. And as far as I know, it is impossible to alter human biochemistry. There is NO reason to be scared. Also, humanity as a whole is already changing the atmosphere from pollution.

Answer 7

It's like asking, "Is Medicine going to kill us all?"  The answer is most likely no.  The efforts you are talking about are being suggested by scientists who know we're in trouble and they are serving as doctors for a sick planet.

There are still many who deny global warming.  They are invariably people who parrot the opinions of right-wing conservatives, one of whose core principles is to protect corporate interests.  If you believe global warming is false, then you have gotten that opinion, directly or indirectly from people who are die-hard anti-conservationists and bottom-line-corporate-profit kinds of folks.  It annoys me that so many people find it so easy to simply dismiss something which has been verified by EVERY MAJOR SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD, which is not funded by the Oil Industry.  It's kind of like the people who believe the moon landings were hoaxed, despite the enormous and easily accessible mountain of evidence debinking their opinion.

That having been said, these people can have their opinions, but if they are fighting efforts to save out planet, that's where the scientific community needs to collectively pick up the gauntlet and fight this suicidal folly with a passion. Quite frankly, I'm getting very tired of the lying propaganda from the far-right power mongers who most certainly responsible for the concerns you express.

Edit:  U.S. American, above, is a classic example.  These are the kinds of people who have a shelf of Rush Limbaugh tapes.  There really is no political motivation for all of the experts, from all over the world, to make up this stuff. There is, however, a very strong political and FINANCIAL motivation to deny the claims of global warming.  Originally ALL these people claimed that global warming didn't exist at all.  (Some still do.  They haven't caught up.)  Now that the industrial leaders have discovered that the evidence is overwhelming and undeniable, they are altering their objection to say that it is natural, and not caused by humans.  That's when we saw articles like the one about Mars' warming as well, but careful examination of that phenomenon shows that it is due to factors that are caused by Mars' particular orbit, and its warming and cooling cycles are more pronounced than on earth.  This is not caused by fluctuations of the sun or any other solar-system kind of explanation.

Note: I do not bias my views by identifying myself as conservative or liberal, and I have never belonged to any political party.  I don't automatically favor one side over the other.  One thing's for sure: the political designation "conservative" has absolutely nothing to do with "conservation."

Okay, I get it now.  Somebody, no doubt using multiple IDs, has been going down my list giving three thumbs down to all my answers lately.  Get a life.

Answer 8

I saw the same program last night. I doubt it will kill us.

The lens thing will never happen... too expensive. Neither will the fleet of cloud making boats, they are gonna have to burn a lot of CO2 emitting fuel just to move around.

The plankton thing won't likely happen either. The plan is to dump iron material above iron deficient beds of earth at the bottom of the ocean. The iron will provide the missing material for plankton growth. However, once the plankton reach their population peak there will be a huge die off. decomposers will digest most of that plankton into CO2 again and the extreme amounts of CO2 will kill off a lot of fish before reaching the surface again. The amount of CO2 that will actually be locked away is around a few percent... not really worth it in my mind.

Carbon scrubbers might work when applied to factory smoke, but large scale use to just take CO2 directly out of the air will use a lot of energy, take a long time, require a lot of scrubbers, and you still need to dispose of the Carbon.

The seedling bombing actually sounds like a great plan. Instead of having a hundred green peace volunteers with shovels doing it over years of time one plane can do it in a single pass. All we would be doing is restoring forests that had existed before hand. The new shore foliage will decrease land erosion and even dissipate hurricanes.

Mankind has spent the last 200 years pumping CO2 into the atmosphere and we are only now feeling the consequences. It is true that Earth's environment is still not well understood, but I doubt mankind will be able to just figuratively flip a switch and shut down the Earth. And these are shots into the dark. All these plans are theoretically viable. What would be fool hardy would be smashing an asteroid into the Earth and hoping for the best. It may create a cloud of dust and lower the temperature or it may set off volcanic eruptions releasing super greenhouse gasses. Even the most fool hardy of the plans won't give us the power of God.