My opinion is known, it has two parts. We are in charge of the climate, and we follow the ice core measurements. And with a bit of looking around, the answer comes back to humans controlling the carbon cycle via large scale algae farming. Solar electric is a great bridge, and has a role.
However, we have already tipped the scale, so the equilibrium climate state is our choice. Algae technology is trekking along slowly, but surely. It yields the greatest of all energy ideas, liquid fuel, no copper needed. We do not need mammoth acreage, the numbers are not that bad, when the algae efficiency reaches some critical level this all seems plausible. Think of us as adding a bit of a lung to small portions of the earth's surface.
Its not a bad world, we price the carbon with long term goals; maybe drop a half point in temp and top off the glaciers, for example. Once a generation winter carnivals to restore fresh water. We have no other choice, and ice core religion says we hover about the mean, and that is quite a bit colder.
Many questions to be asked, but because of the simplicity of liquid fuel, algae technology will eventually poke its head into the market and make it possible. But its a dangerous world when the rich rig the energy markets, stockpile carbon and cover us with ice, while they ski the equatorials.
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