Global Warming

Hello. I am a Finance major at GSU and have never done a blog before. Going through the links to get to this point, I will say that the process is easier and more user-friendly than I would have thought.

I thought my first post would be on a subject that a read about in the wall street journal (online) today. The subject is a controversial one- global warming.

Earlier efforts to stop or ease global warming have focused on reducing the amount of carbon emissions by reducing the emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. However, even if carbon emissions were to be severely curtailed or even stop completely, the earth would continue to warm for decades, possibly even centuries.

So, some argue that more drastic measures are needed. The wsj article talks about directly cooling the planet through geoengineering. There are two methods: temperature management, which moderates heat by blocking or reflecting a small portion of the sunlight hitting the Earth; and carbon management, which gradually removes large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.

Trying to force countries to implement policies to reduce the amount of carbon emissions was controversial enough, certainly these drastic measures which, as the author points out, will likely have unforeseen ramifications, will be even more so.

The post is here - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204771304574181522575503150.html

This doesn't directly impact information technology, but it does talk about the impact that technology can have on our lives and the benefits and possible costs and downsides to that technology. Lee