Posted on 12/01/2008 1:49:00 PM PST by Zakeet
Scientists discussed the merits and demerits of pumping sulfur into the Earths atmosphere as a temporary fix to global warming at a forum hosted in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 21 by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
The idea is to artificially re-create the effects of volcanic eruptions to temporarily cool the planet.
In 2006, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen and National Center for Atmospheric Research Senior Scientist Tom Wigley suggested that geo-engineering might be used as a quick, but temporary, remedy for global warming. This idea was one of the issues discussed at the AMS forum.
In particular, Crutzen and Wigley focused on blocking incoming solar radiation, an idea that has generated much interest in the press and the scientific community, the AMS explained in a posting on the forum on its Web site. Nature offers an example of how to do this. Volcanic eruptions cool the climate for up to a couple of years by injecting precursors to sulfate aerosol particles into the stratosphere, which has the effect of temporarily blocking incoming sunlight.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Why FAKE it?
“Visitor Alert - Kilauea is currently emitting elevated levels of sulphur dioxide gas and an ash-laden fume cloud from a new vent within Halema`uma`u crater.”
http://www.nps.gov/havo/closed_areas.htm#CP_JUMP_197197
I’m located between Nashville and Memphis.
Some Winters pass without our having any snowfall here.
There was an inch on the ground when I left for work today.
Yep, on December 1. This never happens.
I keep wondering when the adults will show up and common sense returns. I’m constantly amazed at the nuttiness that my children’s friends (ages 27, 25, 18, 12) say they ‘know’ to be true. It’s frightening.
Someone made a proposal back in the 70's (and reported in Popular Science) that carbon black be scattered on the glaciers and ice fields to fend off the coming ice age.
If anything like this actually reached a point of serious action, I think someone with some sense had better start asking the grant recipients some serious questions.
Inmates, asylum running?
Cer-Ti-Fi-able!
There is a term for this sort of thinking. It’s generally referred to as Mental Masturbation. Ain’t no way anyone is firing any sulfur into any atmosphere. On the other hand they can talk about it all day long.
Fixing imagined golobal warming is not their goal. Control is. These people are of two types, scientists who are exhibiting classic “rent-seeking” behavious i.e. looking for grants and prestige, and totalitarian socialists desiring total control of the economy and thus everything else. The actual state of the climate and its causes is irrelevant. What is relevant is what they can make the voters believe.
Wouldn't do any good. The sulfur oxides need to be in the stratosphere. The correct (and easy) answer is called "high-sulfur jet fuel". Use low-sulfur stuff for takeoffs and landing, and high sulfur for cruising at altitude.
I think you may be on to something there! :{)
I’ve mentioned that on a couple threads.
Earth gets warm, some coastal cities flood, people have to move uphill or buy gondolas or something.
Earth cools significantly, tens of millions of acres of some of the most productive farmland on the planet turn to permafrost, wheat and soy production plummet 90%, grazing animals and people worldwide die of starvation.
Hey, y’all keep your frigging snow in the upstate, okay?
:)
Heck, they need to keep in NC and quit throwing it down here.
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