Climate change: some reasons for our failures

[CRH]

11. When I think of geo engineering, ...

I always stumble on the same flaws with the theory.

If we could sufficiently alter the atmosphere it still doesn't change the carbon problem. The oceans die from acidity, less sunlight provides less food, the melting frozen carbon sinks do not refreeze and continue to ooze. Then there is the problem of controlling the currents in a constantly changing atmosphere as well as oceans. How would scientists tinker with aerosol distribution guaranteeing the proper concentrations in the desired places, how do we predict where the next ocean current will carry warmth and form weather.

For me thoughts of geo engineering a solution vastly over estimates our understanding of science, cause and effect relationships between interactive species, ecosystem functions, and everything that allows the planet to exist and evolve as it does. As a specie humans can't even social engineer a sustainable population, how will they ever find a balance tinkering with the atmosphere.

I remain a skeptic, those who believe a geo engineering solution is plausible, suffer from delusions of grandeur.