Posted on 12/25/2014 3:41:31 PM PST by 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
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Mass hysteria in England
They’re all batty
East Anglia hoax exposed, they just change the name and call it Climate Change....same lie
Thank you very much. I'll be here all week. Be sure to try your waiter and tip the veal.
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How ‘bout we erect a giant global sunshield made out of 20 dollar bills.
It would be cheaper.
This one certainly doesn’t. The inefficiencies inherent are mind boggling. We’d be better off burning money in hopes that the smoke would blot out the sunlight.
Currently they’re pumping the air full of “bull$hit.”
I have developed a computer model that proves that if we just round up and incinerate all the liberals in the world, not only will we reduce the carbon dioxide they put out, but their ashes will help block out harmful UV rays and cool and heal our planet!
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Going from one hair-brained idea to the next goofy one.
When a scientist starts with an erroneous assumption, then jumps to irrational conclusions, there is no way the truth will ever be ascertained.
Now that actually WOULD screw up the climate, probably.
I THINK it best if Libs don't.
Ships’ bubbles cause global warming.....
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Since there aren’t any issues with the climate, from what are we saving the climate?
The next thing we know, they'll tell us if we fly too near the sun it will melt the wax off our wings and we will fall to earth and die.
Good grief...
Could I have an eye poked out by one of those Femen protestors instead?
Did Slow Joe contribute to this latest “brain storm”?
How exactly does one “shoot ocean water” into the sky?
These people must be dropping LSD...!
How about we waterboard all these leftist loons with saltwater!
Leftist liberals would look mighty good on the moon.
Think of it as Moonbat colonization. How about free one way, no return tickets for any and all leftists. Utopia awaits.
It will take a lot less out of the oceans and much less energy consumption to just pump the seawater down the politicians’ throats. A quick solution to hot air and global warming
I second that motion, and by way of comment suggest that we don’t have MUCH time left to get started
Plus we-ll all get more sleep at night
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