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Scientists Are Exploring Whether We Can Save the Climate by Pumping the Air Full of Seawater (UK)
Citylab ^ | 12/17/14 | John Metcalfe

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechangeair; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; seawater
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To: Libloather
Dispersed in the higher altitudes, the water would leave behind fine salt crystals that serve as nuclei for cloud formation

Since there is now 0 (zero) sea salt at high altitudes I wonder what unintended consequences there might be from polluting the upper atmosphere with it.

61 posted on 12/25/2014 5:38:30 PM PST by Mike Darancette (AGW-e is the climate "Domino Theory")
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To: jcon40
Ask any Lib. Electricity is a waste product of unicorn farts. We have plenty. Nuclear, oil natural gas, let's cut those off. They have nothing to do with electrical generation.

The left doesn't have the slightest concept of the process that allows then to power their electric cars. They don't care, either.

Ask your standard Lib why electrons do not spill out onto the floor if there is no plug to stop them.

62 posted on 12/25/2014 5:47:22 PM PST by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted...)
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To: Libloather

Sharknado 3: ‘The Hills Have Teeth’


63 posted on 12/25/2014 5:53:29 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: tumblindice

Wasting time and money for the elite to have their way.


64 posted on 12/25/2014 6:13:15 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: BitWielder1

All we can be sure of is it will be very expensive.

That is all that counts as long as the money gets to go through the govt and 70% of it gets skimmed off in “administrative costs”.


65 posted on 12/25/2014 6:15:05 PM PST by logic101.net (If libs believe in Darwin and natural selection why do they get hacked off when it happens?)
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To: Libloather

I say we pump the air full of bong water and make everybody happy!


66 posted on 12/25/2014 6:16:02 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Suz in AZ

water vapor is A GREENHOUSE GAS

Dude! Don’t you realize that was supposed to go into the memory hole! What is the matter with you? You can’t expect liberals to be consistent! Your children should have turned you in to the thought police years ago!


67 posted on 12/25/2014 6:18:19 PM PST by logic101.net (If libs believe in Darwin and natural selection why do they get hacked off when it happens?)
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To: PA Engineer

Don’t mention ideology: Ideology! slowly I turned, and step by step, inch by inch, I walked up to him and said:

You have touched on a distinctive quality of the Left. There is no dispute about it. Ideology is pie in the sky and the Left is up to their eyeballs in it.

The ideology of the Left will knock us down the road to destruction. Obama knows his ideology demands he takes America down the road to destruction—inch by inch, step by step. Why is he doing it? This is a man possessed. He is mentally deranged—blinded by his own ideology. To do so his allies, the DemonRATs, wage an ideological war. Such things as “the war on women,” and class warfare work well for them. It enable them to use the Alinsky Method to demonize the Republicans. If manipulates the low infobots to follow Utopian fantasies rather than reality. It allows the divide and conquer strategy. DemonRATs use ideology in alliance with their leader because they know smoke and mirrors is all they have. They are not about fixing problems. They are about maintaining power even if it means destroying everything to do so. The ends justifies the means.

So, if we avoid the ideological page, we can use a pragmatic approach to appeal to the low infobots. Then, the other side looks like the party that has their heads in the clouds rather than the job of fixing America’s problems. They would rather play a round of golf or go on vacation rather than fixing problems. I am hoping America is seeing the DemonRATs as the party lacking the aptitude for fixing America’s problems—like their leader, Zer0.


68 posted on 12/25/2014 6:19:56 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: doug from upland

Where do we get the energy to pump it? Coal? Cold fusion? Free energy?

Bird Blenders (wind mills) of course! Birds have lots of energy.


69 posted on 12/25/2014 6:21:36 PM PST by logic101.net (If libs believe in Darwin and natural selection why do they get hacked off when it happens?)
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To: Libloather

...we’re going to save the environment by radically altering it?

What a great idea....


70 posted on 12/25/2014 6:37:00 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Libloather

The easiest way to increase cloud formation is to increase particulates - go backto burning dirty coal without stack scrubbers.


71 posted on 12/25/2014 6:38:09 PM PST by jdege
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To: Libloather

Based on recent history, this will work just fine.


72 posted on 12/25/2014 6:55:15 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: tet68

the salt falls out, only water evaporates, it will cause to sea to become more saline and kill all life if done enough.


73 posted on 12/25/2014 6:59:53 PM PST by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: Libloather

I could have sworn the headline said “Full of Peewater”.


74 posted on 12/25/2014 7:09:45 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

75 posted on 12/25/2014 7:11:21 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: jonrick46

Happy to have pushed the proper button. ;-)


76 posted on 12/25/2014 7:21:19 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Libloather

They better hurry up....the oceans will all freeze up during the coming ice age.


77 posted on 12/25/2014 7:27:28 PM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: Libloather

Maybe sharknado was a documentary.


78 posted on 12/25/2014 7:29:18 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: jcon40

“Pumps consume lotsa energy!”

Oh yeah?

“The scientists say that the Rayleigh jet method could produce the desired effect using 30 megawatts of energy, about the same energy that two large ships produce.”

And if anyone believes 30 megawatts of energy is enough to alter the atmosphere, I’ve got a bridge for sale in Brooklyn really cheap. I’ll even throw in the lights and the pedestrian walkways for free!


79 posted on 12/25/2014 7:33:07 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: scripter
I KNOW....I Know how to do it.....ME FIRST...

VERY SIMPLE......

Just confiscate all that nasty FRACKING EQUIPMENT....and use it to pump the sea water up into the sky....


80 posted on 12/25/2014 7:41:34 PM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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