Posted on 10/11/2018 12:41:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The international panel charged with reining in climate change said this week that the world needs to take "unprecedented" steps to remake its energy, transportation and agriculture systems to avoid the worst effects of global warming.
What the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change did not discuss was an even more radical potential response - one that would re-engineer Earth’s stratosphere to create a massive heat shield by effectively duplicating the fallout that follows a volcanic eruption.
This kind of revolutionary “solar geoengineering” - known by some as the “Pinatubo Strategy,” after a volcano whose 1991 eruption shrouded the planet in a sulfurous cloud - was once relegated to a far corner of academia. But a number of scientists and environmental advocates said this week that the IPCC report argues for speeding up the study of the once unthinkable.
“The politics of this were impossible a few years ago. But not so much now,” said Rafe Pomerance, chairman of the environmental alliance Arctic 21 and a four-decade advocate of increased action on global warming. “If we think the problem of climate change is catastrophic, how can we say that we can’t at least consider this as an option?”
Researchers have envisioned duplicating the phenomenon by launching jets equipped to fly to 70,000 feet, the lower reaches of the stratosphere, where they would release a sulfur compound. The effort would bleach blue skies a lighter color and make sunsets more vivid, while shielding Earth from some of the sun's rays.
The flights would have to be numerous and long-running to create anything like the reflective power of the volcanic eruptions. But Keith and others believe the technical hurdles could be cleared and an aerosol “umbrella” created, at least for a time.
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Every idiot gets an article. This will never happen. Nobody is really considering it. It is a nonsense idea generated for those out there in media land unable to actually reason.
Science shows global cooling not warming.
But I have to admit drilling your own volcano has to qualify for a world record Darwin Award.
Someone call 911 and tell the operator there’s a fire in the sky
I was going to say plain God is a bad idea of man.
What could go wrong?
“Give us a trillion dollars, or we’ll unleash a volcano on the world.”
Well setting off every nuke on the planet might do something similar. So how bout that ya morons. We are in a intraglacial. Look it up maroons. It is absolutely impossible to determine human impact on this warming. We dont have any accurate readings from previous intraglacials. So you want to cool a planet about to head back into an ice age for a theory that can never be validated. Congratulations, you are now known as the dumbest people in the entire galaxy.
These people are seriously mentally ill. We need to send Derrick Flint to deal with them.
I’ll believe these guys are serious when they start building nuclear power plants.
Well, I see leftist liberals have circled back the “Global Warming/Climate Change” scenario again....
What are you talking about?
The IPCC report is a proven fraud.
See! I knew it! Art Bell was right! ChemTrails are REAL!!!
Rafe and his ilk will really f**k things up. Egotistical a-holes trying to play God. Never works.
Equally stupid, dump dirt into the upper atmosphere? What could go wrong? Weather control experiments are mild examples of the mayhem that could be caused on larger scale.
Why not something more practical? How about we deport the 30-60 million illegals now in the US? That's reduce the wear and tear on the US, free up water resources in the West, reduce pollution, etc. Sure they go home, but it'd at least be a start. Next, how about we get the real polluters, like China, India, Mexico, and so forth to clean up their acts?
These maniacs think they are God. Based on junk science
Contrails and sulfur compounds at 70k feet...fantastic!!
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