Silicon Valley Scientists ‘Brightening’ Clouds To Combat Climate Change

sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ^ | Aug. 5, 2015 | Kiet Do

[PROCON]

SUNNYVALE (KPIX 5) — In a Silicon Valley research lab, scientists are working on what might be considered the option of last resort for global warming.

“It’s an insurance policy,” said researcher Sudhanshu Jain.

It’s called the Marine Cloud Brightening Project, and it’s designed to fight global warming by making clouds over the ocean thicker and brighter so they reflect more sunlight and cool the planet.

The Sunnyvale team has reached a milestone with this high-pressure nozzle that uses salt water and looks like a normal water spray. But it took scientists a year to come up with the exact rate, flow and pressure so that the water droplets come out to the perfect size.

[PROCON]

Once the nozzle is fine-tuned, the plan is to use a barge to shoot the salt particles into the sky and see what happens.

What could go wrong?

The project needs several more years and millions of dollars in funding before its widespread use.

Of course you need more money, "Science" is expensive.

[silverleaf]

The clueless inept manipulating the weather at the behest of a totalitarian agenda

What could possibly go wrong

Maybe a Maunder Minimum.....

[E. Pluribus Unum]

People who think themselves really smart usually aren’t.

[MeganC]

The morons could trigger an ice age.

[InterceptPoint]

These guys are going to feel pretty silly when the next Little Ice Age arrives in a few years or decades and they find out they have been accelerating it’s arrival.

[Black Agnes]

Some of us think that’s the point.

Would definitely solve the ‘overpopulation’ problem the elites yammer on and on about.

[originalbuckeye]

When you hear ‘Silicon Valley Scientists’, you would usually think of ‘smart’. Are they that naive or easily manipulated that they don’t know the Earth hasn’t been warming for around 15 years??? It is the Yin and Yang of WEATHER. How arrogant to think that we have anything to do with it!

[PROCON]

...and they find out they have been accelerating it’s arrival.

A typical result of liberal policies.

Can you say War on Poverty?

[Norm Lenhart]

No this is a good thing. When it goes wildly out of control liberals, being unable to exist without a power grid, will die quickly and in a few years when the climate rights the error, we will be in a liberal free world.

Give them the money!!!

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Cloud Brightening Project, and it’s designed to fight global warming by making clouds over the ocean thicker and brighter so they reflect more sunlight and cool the planet.”

?

ROTFLMFAO !!

[PROCON]

Hey, it’s “Science”.

[Zathras]

Silicon Valley is full of really smart people.
It is ALSO filled with some of the biggest Con Men on the planet.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“settled” science : )

[stephenjohnbanker]

FOLLOW THE MONEY

[elteemike]

“...liberal free world.” Dang! Love the sound of that!

[Talisker]

Once the nozzle is fine-tuned, the plan is to use a barge to shoot the salt particles into the sky and see what happens. The project needs several more years and millions of dollars in funding before its widespread use.

YEAH, RIGHT.

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[TomGuy]

But but but, we are entering a mini-ice age by about 2030.

Wouldn’t painting the clouds just hasten the new ice age?

Oh. They will then paint the clouds black so the clouds will soak in more solar heat.

Got it.

[This insane global warming/climate change proposal is sponsored by Glidden Exterior Paints.]

[Rio]

Supporting this lot with grant money:

Collaborators
Principals

Thomas Ackerman, Principal Investigator
Director, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean
Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
Robert Wood, Principal Investigator
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
Philip J. Rasch, Principal Investigator, Modeling
Chief Scientist for Climate Science, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Armand Neukermans, Project Leader, Sprayer Development
Formerly engineering leadership roles at Xerox Labs, HP, Tencor, Xros
Kelly Wanser, Principal Director
CEO Luminus Networks

Affiliated Researchers

John Latham, Lead Collaborator, Originator of Marine Cloud Brightening theory
Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Ken Caldeira, Lead Collaborator, Modeling
Scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science Department of Global Ecology
Christopher S Bretherton
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
Paul Connolly
Reader, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester
Hugh Coe
Professor, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester
Alan Gadian
Research Scientist, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Leeds; National Center for Atmospheric Science (UK)
Thomas Choularton
Professor of Atmospheric Physics, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester
Keith Bower
Senior Research Fellow, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester

Engineering

Gary Cooper
Formerly, engineering roles at Syntex and Roche
Jack Foster
Formerly, engineering roles at Sandia, Sylvania, HP and Xros
Lee Galbraith
Formerly, engineering roles at Sandia, Tencor
Suds Jain
Formerly, engineering roles at Synoptics, Bay Networks, Broadcom, Acterra
Bob Ormond
Formerly, engineering roles at Metara, Aqua Meteorology

Social Sciences and Engagement

Aaron Feigin
Senior Director, VMWare
Katherine Bock
Senior Director Corporate Development, Nevro
Margaux Giles
Student, Stanford University

Senior Advisors

Paul Crutzen
Atmospheric Chemist, Nobel Laureate, Originator of Ozone theory
James Lovelock
Scientist, Environmentalist, Futurist, Originator of Gaia theory

[BenLurkin]

"What could go wrong?"

[MulberryDraw]

Since water vapor is a greenhouse gas, why doesn’t this process help cause warming?