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
(Excerpt) Read more at citylab.com ...
The easiest way to increase cloud formation is to increase particulates - go backto burning dirty coal without stack scrubbers.
The West removed particulates while China is pumping them by the nationload. Hurricane activity and lack of has proven this.
I just saw that tonight.
Where? From dilithium crystals of course.
They’re barely keeping the lights on over there. I doubt this is going anywhere other than new taxes.
Water is a main cause of green house effect. But nothing like salt aerosols to destroy crops and everything like at the Aral sea.
Check it out, these people are going to kill us all.
LOL! I recently watched that stupid movie too! Don’t shoot anything in the atmosphere man!
idea thanks to Freeman Dyson
Simply adding 1/100" to American topsoil would absorb all the Chinese CO2. And they send it to us free on the wind!
These people only see problems, whereas genius types like Freeman Dyson see opportunity.
Don't listen to dullards who haven't progressed past the Edwardian age.
Do not F-— with mother nature. She is a vicious, vengeful, vicarious, very bitch on a good day. Do not make her mad, if you do, she will show her bad side. It is not nice.
And have they calculated how much energy is required to run those pumps and what they will burn to supply that energy?
Engineers know the effect of Garbage-In, Garbage-Out when using computer models.
The infamous 97% scientists haven't cottoned on to this effect yet, and it would hurt their grant money stream anyway.
Solar, of course....until you make the clouds thicker, then solar no longer works, meaning it needs more funding so it can work when there is less sunlight, so they can fund projects to reduce cloud thickness to make solar more viable.
Did I miss something??
Or have the human race somehow began to mutate “gills”???
Ohhhh, wait...I know...
These scientists must have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express before this went to press...
Yep, that has to be it...
On the bright side, we could give all these climate change experts an improved outlook on life by the application of salt water enemas every day. At the very least, their crappy outlook on living would improve.
Global Warming on Free Republic
Cloud ships and artificial trees could offer last hope to save climate, say British experts
When joining the Left, check your brain at the door.
They CAN’T be meteorologists.
Ane they have no right to call themselves scientists.
Aren’t things bad enough with the mind control gasses on airliner chemtrails?
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