Posted on 08/29/2009 3:59:11 PM PDT by kingattax
THE Royal Society is backing research into simulated volcanic eruptions, spraying millions of tons of dust into the air, in an attempt to stave off climate change.
The society will this week call for a global programme of studies into geo-engineering — the manipulation of the Earth’s climate to counteract global warming — as the world struggles to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
It will suggest in a report that pouring sulphur-based particles into the upper atmosphere could be one of the few options available to humanity to keep the world cool.
The intervention by the Royal Society comes amid tension ahead of the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen in December to agree global cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. Preliminary discussions have gone so badly that many scientists believe geo-engineering will be needed as a “plan B”.
Ken Caldeira, an earth scientist at Stanford University, California, and a member of a Royal Society working group on geo-engineering, said dust sprayed into the stratosphere in volcanic eruptions was known to cool the Earth by reflecting light back into space.
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The arrogance of man to think that he can control the weather.
Hey, where are the old Acid Rainers?
Good Lord, we are possibly entering a maunder minimum and these idiots are trying to enhance the cooldown???
Wouldn’t it be a big joke if these fountains of pollution get under way and oops... global cooling, bigtime?
Wouldn’t it be better if we drilled for oil, had coal-fired electric plants, and all drove Hummers?
Idiots. Not that I believe in AGW anyway, but if they actually could achieve just a small amount of cooling, they could end up starving millions of people, due to loss of arable land for crop growth.
A path fraught with peril.
BIZARRO WORLD!!!
These people are f***ing nuts.
One notes there is no suggestion on how they plan
to put Five Million TONS of particulates into the
upper atmosphere.
But they can! The tinfoil hat libtards said Karl Rove drove Katrina to New Orleans with his weather machine created by DARPA! It must be true cause I read it on Al Gore’s internet!
Funny thing is back when coal powered factories were common tons of dust was in the air and cooled down the earth. Infact many scientists think the rise of hurricanes in the last half of the 20th century was a direct result of reduction in coal pollution which warmed up the oceans.
Makes perfect sense in this bizarre parallel universe. These are people who should have been allowed to play in the traffic more.
Malthus was an educated idiot with a scam back then; today those that believe in the fraud of global warming or other such eco-freak philosophies are also useful idiots.
THE Royal Society recommends using slime as mortar for the blocks of the Tower that will reach unto heaven.
In 100 years, that generation of scientists will consider the global alarmist, the same as a flat earther of today
Sulfur in the atmosphere causes acid rain.
Go for it, you stupid people. At least when the world ends you’ll you had a hand in it. *rolling eyes*
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