Sorry for the late reply, I tend to get very easily sidetracked in weekday evenings.
Religious support for climate action is definitely very important in terms of building political will. Technologies like the Stratoshield, on the other hand, fall under the heading of "geoengineering" (as does the plan to balance stuff between Earth and the Sun to block some of the light, mentioned in an earlier comment). There are myriad objections (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering#Risks_and_criticisms) to the idea of geoengineering, and while it's probably a bad idea to discount these concepts entirely, they shouldn't be implemented until those objections are answered. Also, even the company behind the Stratoshield (http://intellectualventureslab.com/?p=338#more-338) admits that "Geoengineering is not a substitute for reducing our CO2 emissions."
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Date: 2009-11-20 06:12 am (UTC)Religious support for climate action is definitely very important in terms of building political will. Technologies like the Stratoshield, on the other hand, fall under the heading of "geoengineering" (as does the plan to balance stuff between Earth and the Sun to block some of the light, mentioned in an earlier comment). There are myriad objections (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering#Risks_and_criticisms) to the idea of geoengineering, and while it's probably a bad idea to discount these concepts entirely, they shouldn't be implemented until those objections are answered. Also, even the company behind the Stratoshield (http://intellectualventureslab.com/?p=338#more-338) admits that "Geoengineering is not a substitute for reducing our CO2 emissions."