# If There Is Global Warming . . . Why The Aversion To A Technological Fix?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-is-global-warming-why-the-aversion-to-a-technological-fix/463486>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 13, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-is-global-warming-why-the-aversion-to-a-technological-fix/463486 "2008-09-13T21:25:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-is-global-warming-why-the-aversion-to-a-technological-fix/463486/61 "2008-10-09T00:23:38Z")

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> [@Spiders\_Everywhere](#):
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> Here’s a question. You’re not convinced that modern climate science is up to the task of figuring just what is actually going on right now. But you think that these same scientists would be able model the climate accurately enough to predict exactly how it will respond to massive interventions on a scale that has never even been observed? You’d consider literally betting the world on their abilities? What happened to the skepticism?

Absolutely…That is the point that I made earlier in this thread. It is a much easier to know enough to know that what we are doing is very likely causing a significant perturbation on the climate system and that lessening that perturbation will lessen the effects than it is to know the exact amount and nature of that perturbation and of producing another manmade perturbation to try to counteract it!

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