Posted on 01/22/2018 10:29:44 AM PST by PROCON
Last year, the planet was plagued by powerful hurricanes, blistering fires, and temperatures that ranked as some of the hottest on record—ratcheting up concern that we’re already knee-deep in climate change. To stave off the heat, some scientists have proposed blanketing Earth in a sheet of sunlight-reflecting particles called aerosols. This solar shield could cool the planet and buy us time, but a new study suggests that if politicians turned off the hypothetical cloud, they could plunge the planet into a sudden ecological Armageddon.
The idea of injecting aerosols into the atmosphere first came to prominence in 2006, when Nobel Prize–winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen argued that scientists should actively explore the possibility. He said it would be similar to what happens naturally following some volcanic eruptions. For example, the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines cooled the planet by 0.5°C, after spewing some 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. The gas created a sulfate aerosol cloud that reflected sunlight back to space for 2 years.
But injecting aerosols would require constant maintenance—and continuous global support. If a severe drought, a new government, or an economic downturn triggered its sudden collapse, the planet would rapidly warm to the steamy temperatures we otherwise would have been facing. “The minute you stop it you get the full force of the total emissions you’ve put out and that are still in the atmosphere,” says Camille Parmesan, a climate change biologist at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom and the University of Texas in Austin who was not involved in the new study.
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My theory is that if all we earthlings wore aluminum foil hats during the daytime, it would reflect the deadly, earth destroying global warming and save the Erf!
Apparently no one saw Highlander 2: The Quickening - and I can’t blame them. But if they did, they’d recognize this plot.
They aren’t getting enough money out of the carbon hoax, so they need a new boondoggle.
At least they have figured out the source of all heat on earth.
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Actually, the SHIELD is the right way to deal with this crap. You FIGHT BACK, rather than cower into some hybrid corner. If the sun is going to fry us, then TURN IT DOWN, in other words, put up a shield!
These schemes scare me far more than any imaginary fraction of a degree heating. Sunlight is necessary for life. So is carbon dioxide. These schemes to decrease either are exceedingly dangerous; they pose existential threats to all life.
Wasn’t this the plot for Highlander 2?
Yeah, and if we got rid of daylight savings time so we would have one less hour of sunlight warming the Erf..
How about we just make tinfoil hats for the Global Warming Nuts and leave it at that
Burning carbon will create a ring around the planet, protecting us from the sun. Therefore burning carbon as Tom Selleck suggested back in the 80’s would cool the planet. If we just cycle burning fossil fuels every 10 years or so, we should be ok.
These clowns want to start an ice age so they can ration heat to loyal supporters.
Maybe they could just convince some of those islanders to stop throwing virgins in the volcanos to calm them down.
Didn’t Russ Cargill from the EPA come up with this dome idea in the Simpsons movie ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dZFaOd8XL8E
I don’t know if anyone is paying attention to what’s happening up in the sky, but this program has been going on for years. I watched the weather turn “overcast” yesterday, and it was almost all man-made clouds.
Check out Matt Landman’s “Frankenskies.”
And some of the coldest temperatures on record.
“I don’t know if anyone is paying attention to what’s happening up in the sky, but this program has been going on for years. I watched the weather turn “overcast” yesterday, and it was almost all man-made clouds. Check out Matt Landman’s “Frankenskies.”
I’ve spent a good deal of time offshore in a sailboat and the activity over the ocean just out of land view is FAR more than anything you’ll see on land.
You can see giant checkerboard patterns done by planes in formation spanning the entire sky.
IMO, these are classified military tests to alter the weather. We have the computer technology now to determine what parts of the atmosphere to cool/heat in order to alter weather patterns. The scientists can program the planes’ GPS and BAM... instant weather correction.
I would guess they are spraying dusts made of reflective metals that already commonly occur in the ocean.
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