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Climate change supercharges threat from forest-eating bug

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A knowledgeable far sighted scientist and a layman view the climate crisis entirely differently. The former is aware of the interactions which govern the climate system, and has some notion about the equations of these interactions. He knows that the system is full of positive feedbacks and is therefore non-linear and non-stable. The latter, in contrast, adheres to a fundamental cognitive mistakes: He believes that what happened in the past will continue to happen in the future.

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It may be still possible, at the last minute, to prevent the burning out of our planet. This entails two things: 1) Moving away from extracting energy from carbon compounds to extracting it directly from the sun (using panels and concentrated solar power, which is much better) as well as from heavy nuclei (the best option is the fission of Uranium 233 manufactured from Thorium), 2) compensating for the Earth's diminution of ability to return radiation to the outer space due to the disappearance of the ice caps; this can be done by deploying sheets of reflecting material, of the appropriate wavelength, in the deserts and other areas which not utilized for agriculture.

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