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    10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction

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    Image of ParryLost ParryLost
    09/05/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    And then of course there is the solution from Elizabeth Bear's Carnival: Build AIs that will save the planet... by literally taking apart every human being in the Northern Hemisphere.
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    09/05/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    Hooray! You're reading Lem!
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    Image of jbq jbq
    09/05/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    If they ever did a sequel to Highlander, I hope they wouldn't let it involve Connor MacLeod designing a force field to shield the earth from solar radiation (not exactly global warming, but the global warming of the 80s), because that'd just be dumb. Luckily, there is no sequel, so that's all right.
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    Image of FrankN.Stein FrankN.Stein
    09/05/09

    @jbq: True... no such sequel... never happend... ladiladila....
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    Image of joetato joetato
    09/08/09

    @jbq: A sequel to Highlander! What a silly notion. Why not a sequel to The Matrix while you're at it? Hahahahahahaha. Why not two sequels? Or prequels to the Star Wars trilogy?

    Mwaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

    Silly carbon-based bipeds.
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    Image of foolish-rain foolish-rain
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    re: Restart the Gulf Stream. Sure, it hits -50 in Washington and the world leaps into action. What is the world doing about the -50 temperatures we currently get here in the ninth circle aka Minnesota?
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    Image of The_Sporean_Bob The_Sporean_Bob
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    Here's an an idea: make humans at least slightly autotrophic, i.e. make us photosynthetic, so we don't eat nearly as much. that way you need fewer methane spewing cows, less land for agriculture, and you also at least partially solve the starvation problem. Wow, I'm a genius! Where's my friggin' Nobel?!
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    09/04/09

    @The_Sporean_Bob: If that means green people, I'm in.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    Lets just do a controlled eruption of Yellowstone so it sends enough ash in to the air to lower the temperature. We can do that, right? Right?
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    Image of DaveyNC DaveyNC
    09/04/09

    @LittleDragon: Yellowstone is a national park. Didn't know that those erupted.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    09/04/09

    @DaveyNC: Yellowstone park is a large caldera. If is erupts, it would take out most of Western USA.
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    Image of dazoid dazoid
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    SAVE THE TURTLES!
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    Image of darthsodomizer darthsodomizer
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    The Earth got used up, so we moved out and terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    09/04/09

    @darthsodomizer: And Summer Glau will lead us.
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    Drop a bomb on the ozone. That's the American way.
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    Image of Doctor Who? Doctor Who?
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    Another option is saying "Screw it", and creating a Ringworld or Dyson Sphere. Entirely out of the question with modern technology, though.
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    For the Urban Fantasy selection, Harry Dresden messes with Global Climate Change by getting involved with a Faerie civil war.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    09/04/09

    @ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: Poor Harry. He really gets caught up in some messed up stuff.
    The Scifi channels series may have deviated from the books but it was still fun. Maybe we can get a reboot with the vampire war and the Faeries.
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    Image of CoyoteBrown CoyoteBrown
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    In Rainbow Six, (by Tom Clancy), a group of eco terrorists genetically engineer a virus strain in the hopes of wiping out enough humans to reverse the effects of global warming. Then there's moonraker, which is essentially the same plot, but with a toxin and not a virus, and way more miniskirts.
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    Hey, you forgot how the Sentinels in the Matrix made massive clouds to-- Maybe we should just forgot that route.
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    Image of Charax Charax
    09/04/09

    @geesejuggler:
    Sentinels didn't make the clouds, humans did.
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    Image of darthsidious_7 darthsidious_7
    09/04/09

    @geesejuggler: Sentinels didn't make the clouds. The humans did when they nuked the earth in order to block out the sun and eliminate the robot power source. Unfortunately, this backfired and now we are all living in pods while the robots drain us of energy.
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    09/04/09

    Oops, sorry about that. -5 geek points for me.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    I thought science fact has pointed towards the earth heating up all on its own regardless of human interferance! Maybe the question is not what should we do to make it better, but how we should prepare when fosil fuel runs out and the innevitable happens! Sure the shit humans are doing cant be helping. But we did jump on this downward spiral mid spin! Ive heard about a company putting methane measuring collars on cows. Somewhere down south in the UK. Bum corks might help, but then I get visions of exploding cows all over Devon. Ewww!!!
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    Image of Regular_Stormy Regular_Stormy
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    Global warming was also fixed by moving the earth farther from the sun in Frisky Dingo. But it was by accident.
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