Climate plan could change sky colour [Darwin Alert!]

News,com.au ^ | 5/19/08 | Cathy Alexander

[RdhseRat]

Didn't we just add sulphur scrubbers to all coal burning power plants? Now the Australian Man of the Year for 2007 wants us to put sulphur into the atmosphere.

Oh, goody. More acid rain!!!

[Ole Okie]

Bookmark for further study.

[calex59]

climate collapse

Wow, a new catch phrase! Climate collapse, doesn't that sound ominous! What a bunch of nutcakes liberals are.

[RogerD]

It would have to sulfur dioxide, which fate will be hydrolyzing to sulfuric acid and precipitating all over us. Hydrogen sulfide is actively poisonous so I would think that would rule it out. Besides it’s ultimate fate is the acid anyway, so why poison ourselves?

I'd like to think so. Unfortunately, with Global Warming true believers, it's hard to be sure that a detail like toxicity would take precedence over the relative effectiveness of one gas over the other.

[dman4384]

That didnt work out so well in the Matrix

[dfwright]

OK. Just stop demanding that I use ultra-low sulphur diesel fuel, and I’ll do my part...

[headstamp 2]

Doesn’t sulphur cause acid rain?

[visualops]

“Global dimming”.
Well, I know who the biggest dim bulb is.

[HerrBlucher]

Has he ever heared of "acid rain"?

That is exactly what I was thinking. The guy is a flaming nutball, how do these people get away with such idiocy?

[Myrddin]

It would have to sulfur dioxide, which fate will be hydrolyzing to sulfuric acid and precipitating all over us. Hydrogen sulfide is actively poisonous so I would think that would rule it out. Besides it’s ultimate fate is the acid anyway, so why poison ourselves?

Liberal fanatics act without considering the long term consequences. Remember MTBE? It was supposed to clean the air, but ended up polluting the water. DDT was banned on the basis of bad science...3 million Africans have died of malaria as a consequence. Ethanol was supposed to solve the fuel shortage...it caused food shortages instead. Polar bears were just declared "endangered" in spite of their populations increasing a factor of 5 times over the last 40 years to 25,000. We mustn't let facts get in the way of "important" legislation...even if it is based on a lie.

[Entrepreneur]

That man is no scientist. There are so many flaws in his argument that it would take days to argue. Let us all be reminded that science has filters to reduce the percentage of idiots. The filters are not perfect. However, at least we have filters - unlike journalism.

It's not nice to talk about Algore that way.

[Entrepreneur]

What? Is this guy for real? Do people listen to him and NOT think he should be commited?

Isn't he McCain's new environmental advisor?

[Realism]

Yeah, Its COLD! Feels more like a dam ice age is just around the corner here. Its time for some warming, so I can get some relief from these heating bills.

[GOPJ]

Idiots who believe in the global warming hoax are willing to do damage to the atmosphere to "fix" a "problem" that isn't a problem.

Or maybe they know it's a hoax - and the fix is a stop-gap to keep the fools believing.

Yellow sky? Gimme a break.

[drierice]

Global warming is unproven, but this guy is absolute proof that ‘Global Dimming’ is a reality.

[PROCON]

He conceded there were risks to global dimming via sulphur. "The consequences of doing that are unknown."

Uh huh, and you still want to do it?!

[Myrddin]

I've seen yellow skies from sand blown off the deserts of China. It was visible in the skies of Idaho, Utah and Nevada. It only lasted until the sand storms subsided and all the airborne sand settled down again.

[Aussiebabe]

Unfortunately, this guy is for real and he was named Australian of the year, last year. He used to run the South Australian Museum.

He actually is an old bone “scientist” (From the ABC “ Tim is the Principal Research scientist at the Australian Museum in Sydney. He started out, though, doing a degree in English. After graduating, he found a temporary job at the Museum of Victoria in their Vertebrate Paleontology department. This led him to a second degree in Earth Sciences, and from there to a doctorate with the Zoology department at UNSW.”) —not a real climate scientist, but he has written many books.

He likes to attack Bjorn Lomborg, but won't have a debate with him. Luck for us, he has moved to Sydney and accepted a position at Harvard. With any luck he will move to the USA.

Last year he wanted Australia to immediately shut down all of our coal fired electrical plants. He also claimed that the polar bear population has already drastically been reduced due to warming, even though the Canadian told him he was crazy.

The most unfortunate things is that he is the right hand adviser to Mike Rann, Premier of South Australia, for the environment and has the ear of the new Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd.

The guy has become rich because of this books on climate change which the wackos are buying worldwide.

I know the guy and he is likable, but he is a total flimflam man. I just hope he moves to the USA and leaves us alone.

[poindexter]

[TigersEye]

He thinks man is going to pump more sulfur into the atmosphere than a volcano can and that will change the color of the sky which a volcano hasn’t?