Posted on 11/23/2018 6:21:35 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Dimming the sun: The answer to global warming?
Scientists are proposing an ingenious but as-yet-unproven way to tackle climate change: spraying sun-dimming chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere. The research by scientists at Harvard and Yale universities, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, proposes using a technique known as stratospheric aerosol injection, which they say could cut the rate of global warming in half.
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Well.... those particles would block the Infra-red radiation but they might also let more of the UV and Gamma radiation in, which means it would be like nuclear winter WITH the radiation.
These people are complete idiots.
What could go wrong?
Obvious answer is obvious. Just rewire the Sun’s on/off switch to a dimmer switch.
Then, we can turn it up in the winter, down in the summer, and have spring all year round.
Also, they are known as nitwits and poltroons .
And a fair percentage of nincompoops.
`Same idiots that said in the 1970s we should spray oil on the Arctic to absorb heat and reduce Global Cooling.
God, these people are idiots.
That was my first thought. The Simpsons did it.
Yes it amazes me that people don't notice it. They really believe what they are told. It's normal. It's just contrails. Like we don't understand what contrails are after growing up in the era of props when jets were new. Yeah they made normal contrails that always disappeared right behind them. Starting in 1998 that all changed and every sort of stuff was getting dumped into the air. It is still going on today.
Learn to think for yourselves people. Wake up America!
Proposing? They are already spraying the skies. Who are they kiddig. One only needs to look up and see the chem trails.
The true agenda seems to be population control. If the idea is to block sunlight, crops will not be as productive and starvation will be the result.
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Then there is Professor Valentina Zharkova 100% correct so far in her climate predictions saying: “a Super Grand Solar Minimum is on the cards beginning 2020 and running for 350-400 years ...snip ... all four )of the Sun’s ) magnetic fields are going out of phase”
Meaning that it will be like the Little Ice Age only colder and perhaps as cold as the coldest period ever - the Younger Dryas which followed the Ice Age.
So if the idiots cool the upper atmosphere in accordance with their so far totally wrong predictions, we (or rather the few of us remaining alive) will see Snow Ball Earth ... before we starve to death - if we do not die of asphyxiation first ...
See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3707802/posts?page=17
20,000 years ago, during the last Glacial Maximum, CO2 actually dropped to 180 parts per million, or 0.018%.
That was the lowest verifiable reading in Earth's history.
At 150 ppm (0.015%), it is likely that every large land animal - including humans - would have died because all the edible plants would have died.
Oh, and before we seriously start talking about dimming the sun, it might be a good idea to remember that we have been in an Ice Age for the last 3.2 million years.
We are currently in an “Interglacial” warm period, which typically lasts 10,000 to 25,000 years.
I'm not sure how they measure the start of a warm period, but our current Interglacial started at least 15,000 years ago.
20,000 years ago, every major USA city from Seattle to Chicago to New York City was under at least a thousand feet of ice!
Wow I didn’t know that. I read if it hit 0.02% plants start dying but I guess it’s 0.015%. How did it get so low? I would think with everything covered in ice the CO2 wouldn’t be absorbed by plant life etc. Proves the earth can lower it on its own though, but these people are insane, talking about blocking out the sun. Like hell they will. I’m 56 and lived in New York all my life on Long Island by the ocean. I remember clear as day the temperature and climate from when I was 2 years old and NOTHING nothing has changed here. It’s the same every year, no odd feelings about the seasons, temp, climate, every summer the temps hit the 90s and every winter we hit down as low at 10 degrees. Actually in 2016 we hit as low as zero in January. But my point being is if we had any substantial change in climate, I certainly would have noticed it from living in the same place for 56 years, the temps are the same and the sea water isn’t rising up. Matter of fact by Long Island sound there’s this pier that has been in place since the 1800s. It’s STILL above the water line. Why, if the polar caps are melting? But I guess now liberals will tell us “Oh, climate change only happens in certain sections of the earth” yeah sure, the atmosphere stays completely static.
They should have been they’re (sheesh)
As temperatures cool, the oceans release less and less CO2 back into the atmosphere.
Also, huge amounts of ocean water were frozen - sea level dropped 400 feet - so that ice released no CO2.
Also, volcanos are a significant source of CO2. Since about 25% of the Earth was covered in ice, that most likely suppressed some normal volcanic activity.
Also, forest fires and grass fires release a lot of CO2, and the ice and colder temps suppressed fires and the natural decay of dead vegetation.
Man, of course, is the smallest contributor to atmospheric CO2.
We have added only 4% (16 ppm) to the current CO2 level of 400 ppm.
BREAKING NEWS! Democrats are sending an expedition to the Sun’s surface in an attempt to dim it and solve global warming. As a safety precaution, they plan on landing at night."
That'll work! - - Thank you, that was funny.
In the year 535 AD volcanos in Iceland spewed sun blocking gases and particles into the upper atmosphere. This caused 2 years of dark and nobody saw the sun for this entire period. Crops failed and there was no summers. A large percentage of the human race died from cold, starvation and disease.
Intentionally spraying stuff into the atmosphere to dim the sun should be considered a crime against humanity.
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