Nathan Myhrvold's Anti Global Warming Scheme

Associated Content ^ | Dec 20, 2009 | Mark Whittington

[driftdiver]

Nathan Myhrvold is a former technology officer for Microsoft who has found his own company, Intellectual Ventures, which is involved in a number of technology development programs, including new forms of energy generation.

Nathan Myhrvold also thinks that he has found a cheap and reliable way to solve global warming, which does not involve upending and perhaps destroying the world's economy. The global warming solution proposed by Nathan Myhvold involves Nathan Myhrvold's Anti Global Warming Scheme

running a hose up to the stratosphere with balloons and using that hose to pump out enough sulfur particles to dim the sun's heat just enough to counteract the effects of global warming. The estimated cost would be about two hundred and fifty million dollars.

Nathan Myhrvold suggests that volcanoes and other natural processes already pump out sulfur into the stratosphere and that his scheme, if adopted, would increase that amount by only one percent. Nathan Myhrvold therefore thinks that there would not be any unintended consequences (like starting a new ice age.)

[driftdiver]

The idea is to increase costs, not decrease them. With only $150 million there is very little left for the project after you pay your bribes.

[driftdiver]

“. I wonder where all that melt water went?”

Give me a $1 Billion dollar grant and I’ll find out.

[TomasUSMC]

Instead just put the democratic leadership on the Space Shuttle and send them to the moon. All that hot air leaving the Earth will be good, PLUS it will heat up that cold assed weather they have on LUNA.