Thanx !
Beam me to Planet Gore !
ROFL!
Bill Gates pays for ‘artificial’ clouds to beat greenhouse gases
******************************EXCERPT**********************************
Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire, is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every second and spray it upwards. This would seed vast banks of white clouds to reflect the Sun’s rays away from Earth.
The British and American scientists involved do not intend to wait for international rules on technology that deliberately alters the climate.
************************************snip***********************************
Other types of geoengineering, such as mimicking volcanoes by using aircraft to spray reflective sulphate particles in the stratosphere, would have much longer effects on weather patterns.
Stephen Salter, Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design at the University of Edinburgh, said that there was no need to wait for regulations because the trials would not add chemicals to the atmosphere. But Sir David King, former chief scientific adviser to the Government, said that experiments with potential consequences beyond national borders needed international regulations. He told The Times: “I do not see any geoengineering solution which does not have unintended consequences or is not far too expensive.”
*******************************************************
And from the comments:
**************************************EXCERPT********************************
paul clark wrote:
A $300K down payment is a far cry from the advertized $7B total price tag....which is a pittance compared to what it will cost to keep 1900 ships running around the globe continuously. Guess where the balance will come from? Probably a UN fund that the US will exclusively pay for.
That craft looks like something out of Dr Seuss.
:’) Thanks Ernest!
Bill Gates is an idiot at best. I felt this way when he first came on the scence, I feel the same way to date.
http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
at 4:44 he discusses a role for vaccinations in population reduction: “If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower [global population] by perhaps 10 or 15 per cent.”
Of course, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is one the largest providers of vaccination programs in the third world, so the implications are chilling.