Triggering an Ice Age in order to halt Global Warming ... another low from the incredibly stupid Looney Left.
Posted on 12/01/2008 1:49:00 PM PST by Zakeet
Scientists discussed the merits and demerits of pumping sulfur into the Earth’s atmosphere as a temporary “fix” to global warming at a forum hosted in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 21 by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
The idea is to artificially re-create the effects of volcanic eruptions to temporarily cool the planet.
In 2006, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen and National Center for Atmospheric Research Senior Scientist Tom Wigley suggested that “geo-engineering” might be used as a quick, but temporary, remedy for global warming. This idea was one of the issues discussed at the AMS forum.
“In particular, Crutzen and Wigley focused on blocking incoming solar radiation, an idea that has generated much interest in the press and the scientific community,” the AMS explained in a posting on the forum on its Web site. “Nature offers an example of how to do this. Volcanic eruptions cool the climate for up to a couple of years by injecting precursors to sulfate aerosol particles into the stratosphere, which has the effect of temporarily blocking incoming sunlight.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Triggering an Ice Age in order to halt Global Warming ... another low from the incredibly stupid Looney Left.
I heard that a couple of scientists actually want to drill through the earth’s mantle..............
May I suggest a series of hydrogen bombs buried deeper and deeper under Yellowstone, to help get sulfur in a hurry? :)
Great idea! What country should we start with?
They just need a giant spaceship full of water...go up to the sun and douse part of it. If it’s too hot to get close enough, wait until night.
The final scenes should be a big help.
My co-worker told me earlier that snow had been reported in a nearby town. This is upstate SC. It never snows this time of year. You might see some in January or February, but usually rain or ice, as we are south of the snow line.
And these fracking morons want to block out the sun.
Lord, help us.
Will do; thank you.
I wonder if these morons thought through to what would occur on the earth if they DID get it to cool off...
mass starvation, etc.
But, then again, most of these folks are simply anti-human anyway.
There are numerous technical fixes to alleged causes of global warming, but such speculators miss the point.
Environmentalists are not really concerned with the environment, they are concerned with controlling the lives of others.
Simple solutions simply complicate their plans to control the global economy and enrich themselves in the process.
It’s snowing in Georgia right now. The Earth doesn’t need someone trying to turn the thermostat lower.
Actually I know the answere here. The "scientists" want billions of dollars of grants and the politicians want unlimited power and unlmited opportunities for corruption.
If these scientists are the best and brightest we can offer, we’re in deep, deep doo-doo.
The Nobel prize, didn't they give that to Al Gore for a slide show presentation.....
Apparently, science is not what it used to be.....
If they weren’t so frighteningly serious it would be very funny.
How about Germany?
He [Crutzen] currently works at the Department of Atmospheric Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry,[2] in Mainz, Germany
No, really? Blocking the sun for a few years has the potential to create problems? Science!
These people need to look out the window before they say such stoopid things about "warming".
These people need to look out the window before they say such stoopid things about "warming".
Leave the climate alone. These ideas to “fix” global warming by putting particulates into the atmosphere will cause an ice age.
Sick, sick demented liberals.
The world 20,000 years ago, which is what this lunatics seek to recreate:
These people will not stop until they actually kill off humanity.
12/1/2008 You read it here first.
“...They just need a giant spaceship full of water...go up to the sun and douse part of it. If it’s too hot to get close enough, wait until night...”
FReepers are such brilliant thinkers! I’m proud to be part of this community.
You know, I big umbrella in orbit would do the same thing. You could open it or close it a little to control sunlight. Heck, why not make it thermostatically controlled?!
Acid rain will cool the weather
OMG, the mad scientists are still at it.......
So they want to spew a *real* pollutant into the air to counteract the imaginary effects of a pretend pollutant. Great.
Repealing the Clean Air Act and waiting 30 years would do the trick, but it would be bad for human lungs. So d@mned if we do, d@mned if we don’t.
But...but...that’s...POLLUTING!
How about they just let us go back to high-sulfur coal for powerplants and high-sulfur diesel for trucks and dozers?
What the hell is up jackasses? We spent billions “cleaning up” sulfur so we don’t have acid rain (It went away with the Clinton Administration after being a total nightmare during Reagan). Now they want to bring that back?
What the HELL?
No, Gore won the Peace Prize, the most politicized of them all.
Screwing in new light bulbs, or driving around in the "right" kind of car, is hunky-dory, so far as I'm concerned. Also, IMHO, all of those efforts don't amount to a spit in the ocean.
I get scared when people really try to "fix" the "problem". They might really screw things up in a big way.
If American politicians screw this country up enough, I can always leave. Hard to leave the planet, though.
I think scientists should have to prove they actually have brains before they’re turned loose on society.
If you built the umbrella out of solar cells, you could generate electricity and beam it down to the earth via microwave.
Wait, that would actually work.
(Might not be cost-effective, but it would work.)
I remember “acid rain” when I was in elementary school (1980s).
I read about it, watched a couple of videos about it, and suddenly nobody was talking about it anymore. The next world ending crisis was Global Warming. I suspect the next crisis will be the health and mental side effects of mega-urbanization, requiring the government to spend billions on ensuring that urban dwellers have decent living standards, achieved no less through a liberal use of imminent domain and the confiscation of private property within the urban limits. Meanwhile, the results of socialization of our industries will be an increase in pollution, a decrease in productivity and innovation, and we’ll be right back where we started... with acid rain.
“Scientists discussed the merits and demerits of pumping sulfur into the Earth’s atmosphere as a temporary “fix” to global warming “
While restricting the use of Coal plants, of course! These guys are nuts!
Why FAKE it?
“Visitor Alert - Kilauea is currently emitting elevated levels of sulphur dioxide gas and an ash-laden fume cloud from a new vent within Halema`uma`u crater.”
http://www.nps.gov/havo/closed_areas.htm#CP_JUMP_197197
I’m located between Nashville and Memphis.
Some Winters pass without our having any snowfall here.
There was an inch on the ground when I left for work today.
Yep, on December 1. This never happens.
I keep wondering when the adults will show up and common sense returns. I’m constantly amazed at the nuttiness that my children’s friends (ages 27, 25, 18, 12) say they ‘know’ to be true. It’s frightening.
Someone made a proposal back in the 70's (and reported in Popular Science) that carbon black be scattered on the glaciers and ice fields to fend off the coming ice age.
If anything like this actually reached a point of serious action, I think someone with some sense had better start asking the grant recipients some serious questions.
Inmates, asylum running?
Cer-Ti-Fi-able!
There is a term for this sort of thinking. It’s generally referred to as Mental Masturbation. Ain’t no way anyone is firing any sulfur into any atmosphere. On the other hand they can talk about it all day long.
Fixing imagined golobal warming is not their goal. Control is. These people are of two types, scientists who are exhibiting classic “rent-seeking” behavious i.e. looking for grants and prestige, and totalitarian socialists desiring total control of the economy and thus everything else. The actual state of the climate and its causes is irrelevant. What is relevant is what they can make the voters believe.
Wouldn't do any good. The sulfur oxides need to be in the stratosphere. The correct (and easy) answer is called "high-sulfur jet fuel". Use low-sulfur stuff for takeoffs and landing, and high sulfur for cruising at altitude.
I think you may be on to something there! :{)
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