Posted on 01/08/2014 10:03:02 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Attempts to reverse the impacts of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the stratosphere could make matters worse, say researchers.
A new study suggests the idea, seen as a last-ditch way to deal with runaway climate change, could cut rainfall in the tropics by 30%.
This would have devastating impacts on rainforests in South America and Asia
The research has been published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
The concept of curbing rising temperatures by blocking sunlight has been discussed by scientists for many years now.
Some of the ideas have been dismissed as crazy notions, but others have been taken more seriously.
One of the most credible plans involves using reflective particles called aerosols to reflect solar radiation away from the Earth.
This happens naturally when volcanoes erupt, sending plumes of ash into the stratosphere, as with Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991.
Now a team at the University of Reading have modelled the impacts of a large-scale injection of sulphur dioxide particles at high altitudes around the equator.
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If women control the world’s thermostat, we’re going to become dried up human jerky.
They should just turn Karl Rove’s weather machine back on. At least in those days it wasn’t one hundred and eleventy billion degrees below zero.
Reseaerchers around the world continue to look for ways to justify their existence, bilk taxpayers, and expand government power.
As the leading edges of the cold Arctic Vortex was entering the Texas area near where my shop is located, the Boys in Black had painted a giant X in the skies over head. Them chem trail boys are up to something, or at least they have a strange sense of humor LOL
Start with Mecca, Medina, Riyadh, Damascus and Tehran.
In the late 70’s all coal fired generating plants were required by law to retrofit scrubbers on to their stacks to cut down on the emissions of SO2. Not long after we started to see a slight rise in global temps know as AGW. Now to correct a problem of their own making these dimwits want to spray SO2 back into the atmosphere. Why not just remove the scrubbers and refire the mothballed coal generating plants. Bingo you have solved three problems. You’ve stopped AGW, increased the supply of cheap electricity and put hundreds if not thousands of people back to work mining and shipping coal. Beats an unemployment check.
we had an old wood and coal burning furnace to heat the house on the family farm since the early 30s,, that sucker could get it going pretty good if fed well. nothing like shoveling coal.. or cutting and sawing wood up and hauling it.. over and over.. I miss it tho.. for all the muss.. that sucker would almost glow and singe yur brows if ya weren’t careful feeding the beast.
I have no idea how much stuff it spewed, the area survived, no one lives there, but it sure ain’t Chernobyl either.
an interstate freeway and interchange made sure of that.
oh vell . nothing to grouse about, progress happens, it’s all commercial stuff now,, and a shadow of itself. Time to go fire the fireplace, ponder what I can do to restore individual freedoms and not disturb the climate of the neighbors.
laugh away,, its like the pilots are playing tic TAC toe some days.. and you never know what those whispy trails of stuff are and where they’ll end up.
It sure seems like activity in this area is up.. a lot of folks don’t know a cumulus cloud from their yaknow. ;-)
HaPPY Trails ..NOT!
I could think of about 57 locations for that.
How exactly would you spray 100 million TONS of sulfur diodide into the atmosphere? Where would you get that much? How many million cargo plane trips would it take? How much of that 200,000,000,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide would be converted to sulfuric acid? Seriously, in my day they would have never given a Ph.D. to someone so stupid.
If the weather is too hot, Get your a$$ to a higher latitude.
Say goodbye to the sunny beaches, palm trees and fresh produce and hello to arctic snows and long nights.
It is an inconvenient truth that there is a lot of land bulldozed by the last Ice Age's glaciers which is sparsely inhabited, just waiting for you.
Just don't go screwing around with the natural mechanisms which brought the planet back from that last big cool event--y'know, in the time that civilization developed, at least in any recorded history we have.
Oh. Like Obanomics, or Obamacare, or...
The house I grew up in was built next to my grandfather’s general store, they shared the same wall. I remember the big potbellied stove in the store. We’d burn our paper trash in it during the winter and also had coal as the primary heating element, with the occasional tree limbs. One had to watch it so that it did not get to hot and cause the tin stove pipe to the chimney from getting ‘cherry red.’
Heh! I remember potbellied stoves. When I was in the eighth grade, we lived in the mountains west of Denver. The one-room school had a potbellied stove. My job was to keep the wood-box full. That took about an hour a day.
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