Scientists Are Exploring Whether We Can Save the Climate by Pumping the Air Full of Seawater (UK)

Citylab ^ | 12/17/14 | John Metcalfe

[Libloather]

Battling a big problem like climate change will require big ideas. And scientists in the U.K. have one of the biggest: take ocean water, shoot it up into the atmosphere, and let the resulting clouds cool the earth like a massive, wet blanket.

Granted, these folks are not the first to float this incredible-sounding strategy, known as "marine-cloud brightening." In one example, the physicist John Latham wrote in 1990 that the life of clouds might be prolonged by artificially increasing their "droplet concentration." These thicker clouds would reflect more of the sun's radiation away from the planet, in theory allowing its fever to diminish.

But researchers at the University of Manchester and elsewhere have drafted a road map for what they think is the world's best marine cloud-seeding plan. They envision a fleet of ships traveling the oceans, spraying vast quantities of seawater into the ether with a technique called the "Rayleigh jet." (In this study, the Rayleigh's efficiency beat other methods such as the "Taylor cone jet" and "effervescent spray atomization.") Dispersed in the higher altitudes, the water would leave behind fine salt crystals that serve as nuclei for cloud formation

[Libloather]

Apparently the UK doesn't get enough rain. On the bright side - Hussein gets to fulfill his promise of lowering the oceans.

[chris37]

I think we can save th eclimate by pumping the air full of liberals.

[BitWielder1]

We have no evidence it will do anything at all or if it will change the climate in a beneficial direction.
All we can be sure of is it will be very expensive.

[familyop]

Yet another way from “scientists” to salt the earth. If they’re so rich, why aren’t they smart?

[Gene Eric]

Recently watched Snowpiercer...

[tflabo]

Lawyers are gonna love this one can of worms. Imagine lawsuits from flood victims blaming the seawater pumpers for creating heavy rains. Doesn’t take an Einstein to see that happening.

[Magnum44]

Article needs an epic fail face palm picture....or “not this shit again”...or both

[montag813]

Sounds like they watched Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home too many times, except an alien probe did that. And it was BAD!

[Suz in AZ]

Uhhhh... water vapor is A GREENHOUSE GAS!! Hello? So are they refuting their claim on CO2 raising temps and now essentially saying that a greenhouses head is expected to lower temps? Hmmmm....

[tet68]

Salty rain, not that’s got to help.../s

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Scientists Are Exploring Whether We Can Save the Climate by Pumping the Air Full of Seawater

I think we should pump the air full of Mannish Water.

[rockrr]

This is an excellent idea, and one that should be funded by taxing leftists.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

“I think we can save the climate by pumping the air full of liberals.”

Naw....way too full of hot air.

[Westbrook]

These people get fruitier and fruitier by the day!

Their delusions are so strong, they are bordering on dementia.

[jcon40]

Pumps consume lotsa energy!

Isn’t it our obsessive use of energy that causes climate change.....

[Jim Robinson]

Idiots.

[jonrick46]

When the salt crystals fall to the Earth, how will they affect plant life? And how will salt affect things made of metal through electrolysis?

[PA Engineer]

Idiots.

I fear much worse. They are Defective Units (DU) and a danger to humanity.

[hinckley buzzard]

Just what we want--salt water rain falling on the world's food crops. Yeah, that'll work.

[Dallas59]

Shooting Liberals into the sun using huge rockets my cool things down.