Climate Control By Gregory Benford
In the summer blockbuster of 1998, Armageddon, Bruce Willis led a crew of courageous malcontents on
a space expedition to destroy an asteroid on a collision course with the Earth. The movie is science
fiction, of course, but the concept that man could employ technology to avert such a natural disaster is
anything but fantasy. Research is underway on several fronts to prepare to deflect our inevitable
appointment with an asteroid.
The 2006 summer's catastrophe movie, An Inconvenient Truth, casts man as villain rather than problem
solver. However, if one accepts the premise Al Gore promotes in the film--that disasters are just around
the corner as a consequence of industrialization--one must wonder: Where are the technological knights
in shining armor?
Dr. Gregory Benford, is a science fiction author and physicist on the faculty of the University of
California at Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy. Benford has been an advisor to NASA, the
U.S. Department of Energy, and the White House Council on Space Policy. At the June 2006 Skeptics
Society conference at the California Institute of Technology, Benford proposed a plan to shield the Earth
from the sun's radiation by controlling the climate on purpose.
See an article about Gregory Benford at:
www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=19484
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In the summer blockbuster of 1998, Armageddon, Bruce Willis led a crew of courageous malcontents on
a space expedition to destroy an asteroid on a collision course with the Earth. The movie is science
fiction, of course, but the concept that man could employ technology to avert such a natural disaster is
anything but fantasy. Research is underway on several fronts to prepare to deflect our inevitable
appointment with an asteroid.
The 2006 summer's catastrophe movie, An Inconvenient Truth, casts man as villain rather than problem
solver. However, if one accepts the premise Al Gore promotes in the film--that disasters are just around
the corner as a consequence of industrialization--one must wonder: Where are the technological knights
in shining armor?
Dr. Gregory Benford, is a science fiction author and physicist on the faculty of the University of
California at Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy. Benford has been an advisor to NASA, the
U.S. Department of Energy, and the White House Council on Space Policy. At the June 2006 Skeptics
Society conference at the California Institute of Technology, Benford proposed a plan to shield the Earth
from the sun's radiation by controlling the climate on purpose.
See an article about Gregory Benford at:
www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=19484
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