Posted on 09/29/2007 8:19:39 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
(LONDON) -- A series of giant pipes in the oceans to mix surface and deeper water could be an emergency fix for the Earth's damaged climate system, the scientist behind the Gaia theory said on Wednesday.
James Lovelock, whose Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a living entity has fuelled controversy for three decades, thinks the stakes are so high that radical solutions must be tried even if they ultimately fail.
In a letter to the journal Nature, he proposes vertical pipes 100 to 200 meters long and 10 metres wide be placed in the sea, so that wave motion pumps up water and fertilizes algae on the surface.
This algal bloom would push down carbon dioxide levels and also produce dimethyl sulphide, helping to seed sunlight-reflecting clouds.
"If we can't heal the planet directly, we may be able to help the planet heal itself," Lovelock, of the University of Oxford, and co-author Chris Rapley, from London's Science Museum, said. The two scientists argued it was unlikely any of the well-intentioned technical or social schemes for limiting carbon would restore the planet's status quo.
International climate experts have warned that global warming, blamed mainly on greenhouse gases emitted by burning fossil fuels, will bring more droughts, heatwaves, floods and rising sea levels.
Commenting on Lovelock's idea, Brian Hoskins, professor of meteorology at the University of Reading, said it was scientifically sound but there were huge unknowns. "This is the latest in a line of geo-engineering solutions," he said.
Oh, I believe the part about the giant pipes... I was just wondering what they are smoking in them :>)
So my carbon credits are worth what now?
Something for nothing and your credits are free, at time of resale.
Ocean thermal energy conversion was first proposed in the 1800s and the first commercial plant was built in 1930.
Wanna know more?
These people are deranged.
If Keith Olbermoan, Chrissy girl Matthews, Tucker pucker Carlson, George Soros, both Clintons, Obamasama, Edwards, Kookcinich all Kennedys and all other Libtard nuts would stop breathing, there would be absolutely no need for this ALGORE loose bowel drippage pipe dream.
hahahahaha Very funny.
Ethel Merman had a big set of pipes and look where it got her.
....or backfire?
As long as we use it to generate electricity, I’m all for it.
The two scientists argued it was unlikely any of the well-intentioned technical or social schemes for limiting carbon would restore the planet’s status quo.
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you can be sure that environmentalists will be against any technological fix that threatens their faith that we must return to a ‘stone age’ subsistence lifestyle. On the other hand, they must contend that Mr. Gaia himself favors technology over taxation and control.
Best case of mental nanoinflation to date. Will Wikipedia adopt this new word? Will the author of this oceanic pipedream know its meaning? It can only be one of lifes’ imponderable, persistently annoying questions as to how expansion of really small ideas, on occasion, heads to the forefront of consideration of comment from the worlds best applicators of common sense...freepers.
I thought they were going to bore big holes in the mountains to suck out all the bad air. Too bad it didn’t happen, then we could really say Mexico sucks :>)
Can’t we just pray to Mother Gaia?
Or maybe throw virgins into volcanos, that would probably work.
Can’t we just pray to Mother Gaia?
Or maybe throw virgins into volcanos, that would probably work.
Of course, it’s more than just ego - it’s all that fund money - and power.
This Global Warming scam must be stopped =
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