“We now have the capacity to literally change the relationship between the Earth and the sun.”
Now if only that nice turn-of-phrase were being used in the audacious-superfuture-planetary-scale-engineering-Dyson-Sphere sense…
And, via LMG, here’s the trailer to Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth”
Petafloptimism 
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