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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (1977)	9/15/2011 12:31:26 PM
From: Wharf Rat	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 85487

First, ya gotta stop making it worse, which means getting away from carbon, and getting our energy from sun, wind, tides, geothermal, etc. Then, if there is still time, we start pulling it out of the atmosphere. Means planting about 20 gazillion trees, and finding artificial ways of doing it. Google artificial trees, I think. So far, carbon sequestration hasn't been a success. Beyond that, I'm afraid we're gonna have to go the geoengineering route, from the simple like painting roofs white, to something complex, and hopefully reversible, like sun screens way out in space. Gonna have to do a lot of mitigating, too, cuz,even if we stopped putting out carbon today, there is still a lag built into the system as the oceans warm. Dikes like Holland has, levees along the Missouri and in Dakota. Update on the Missouri. Mid September and still in flood. Most of the Dakotas and Nebraska have shown a green line on this page since May, it just doesn't leave. Well, N Dakota is finally getting back to normal. http://classic.wunderground.com/severe.asp?region=us&setprefs.0.key=SVRM... It's wait till early October for a normal Missouri. The runoff over the last four months has been immense. The volume of water runoff from May through August was greater than the total annual runoff in all but three years since the Corps began keeping detailed records in 1898: 1997, 1978 and 2010. http://news.yahoo.com/missouri-river-return-normal-early-october-0020044... And the damage? It's just now that it can be assessed. http://news.yahoo.com/mighty-missouri-river-flooding-damage-done-1342091... And we should hope this is just a new volcano, cuz methane is 23X as bad as CO2. Might be time for solar powered freezing units on the summer arctic ice pack to keep things cool. Seems like a potential growth industry. Something strange Posted on September 14, 2011 by rusfedmin Commercial shipping through the Northeast Passage over the last couple weeks has reported the seas bubbling as if they were boiling. Their observations have been reported to the science ministry who have sent scientists to investigate. http://arctictransport.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/something-strange/ methane leaking in the Arctic sea bed............. news.nationalgeographic.com