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Scientists Suggest ‘Dimming The Sun’ to Solve Global Warming
Breitbart ^ | November 23,2018 | Lucas Nolan

Posted on 11/24/2018 6:12:58 AM PST by Hojczyk

Scientists have proposed a new method to fight global warming: sun-dimming aerosols released into earth’s atmosphere. Research from scientists at Harvard and Yale universities was recently published in a journal called Environmental Research Letters which proposes using a technique called stratospheric aerosol injection to fight against climate change. The proposed technique would see scientists launching sulfate particles into the Earth’s lower stratosphere at altitudes up 12 miles high.

Currently, the technology exists but there are no aircraft suitable to carry the particles and “developing a new, purpose-built tanker with substantial payload capabilities would neither be technologically difficult nor prohibitively expensive,” the researchers stated. The researchers have estimated that it would cost $3.5 billion to launch a system in 15 years time and would cost $2.25 billion a year to maintain over the course of those 15 years.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: aerosols; climatechange; globalwarming; whatcouldgowrong
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To: Hojczyk

It’s already been done see China and India.


61 posted on 11/24/2018 7:39:40 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: faucetman
Do these MORONS even consider how YUGE the atmosphere is?

It's big but not infinite. The current level of jet engine exhaust, mostly water vapor, adds to cirrus clouds and produces global warming.

Condensation trails, or contrails, generated from high-altitude aircraft exhaust may affect climate because they can persist for many hours. Like their natural counterparts, these anthropogenic cirrus clouds reflect solar radiation and absorb and emit thermal infrared radiation causing a radiative forcing that depends on many factors, especially contrail optical depth and coverage (Sassen 1997; Meerkötter et al. 1999).

https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017%3C1671:CCTAC%3E2.0.CO;2

The long and short of it is that the high clouds trap more heat energy (all day and all night) than the amount of solar energy they reflect to space. So we are already playing with the upper atmosphere and causing some global warming. That said, I think it's an extremely bad idea to deliberately cause global cooling. Even minor natural cooling events, like Pinatubo, caused crop disasters. The lower sunlight created poor growing conditions for diverse areas like tropical corals and northern forests.

62 posted on 11/24/2018 7:41:33 AM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Hojczyk

Well, it would be easy to reverse the effects if it backfires. /s


63 posted on 11/24/2018 7:45:55 AM PST by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: Hojczyk

What could possibly go wrong?/sarc


64 posted on 11/24/2018 7:52:59 AM PST by Eagles6
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To: Hojczyk
Just put this on the moon and we're good to go...


65 posted on 11/24/2018 7:55:18 AM PST by skimbell
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To: relee

A better solution is to move the earth and associated satellites several million miles due west of the sun.


66 posted on 11/24/2018 7:57:56 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: Hojczyk

Yep, THE SUN DOESN’T NEED THE HELP OF HARVARD/YALE “SCIENTISTS” TO DIM ITSELF.


67 posted on 11/24/2018 7:59:20 AM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: Hojczyk; All

***NEWS FLASH***

The U.N. has already been doing this for years. Google Geoengineering and it comes right up. Another name for it is chem trails. Which stand for chemical trails. The U.N. spraying liquid metal in the stratosphere in the hope to reflect the Sunlight. So the Earth does not “heat up”.

Besides from its wack job nutball conspiracy theorist reasons it does have harmful affects on people. This is because the liquid metal fallls to the ground and we inhail it. Anyway, here is one web site dedicated to it.

https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/


68 posted on 11/24/2018 7:59:55 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: FrankR

Its a very stupid headline. They are not proposing to actually reduce sun output, but to block solar radiation from reaching the earth’s surface by polluting the atmosphere.

It often does pay to read the short excerpts, not just the headline.


69 posted on 11/24/2018 8:02:23 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Hojczyk

Sure, what could go wrong.


70 posted on 11/24/2018 8:14:50 AM PST by Mercat
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To: Hojczyk

liberals will kill us all with their stupidity!


71 posted on 11/24/2018 8:18:13 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Hojczyk

Umm, and the so-called scientist advocating this sh*t idea are absolutely idiots who watched too much Highlander II.....


72 posted on 11/24/2018 8:51:14 AM PST by cranked
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To: All
I don't see anything different than what they've been hitting us with already (chemtrails) except that now they'll be building a super plane to dump toxins and metals on us.

They will do this without anyone's permission and without anyone stopping them either.

Our food supply is already affected by this and now it will double the problems.
73 posted on 11/24/2018 8:54:51 AM PST by ssfromla (I am the Mouth)
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To: Hojczyk

Bump


74 posted on 11/24/2018 8:59:30 AM PST by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: Hojczyk

The last time we had a little ice age only two magnetic fields of the sun went out of phase.

And when was that? How does she know that? I call BS!


75 posted on 11/24/2018 9:00:37 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: Enlightened1
The vapor trails you see in the sky are water vapor. They actually cause global warming, net. They reflect some sunlight back to space during the day, but reflect heat back to earth 24x7.

In general high clouds (with cold tops) cause global warming and low cloud with low warm tops cause global cooling, although there are other factors like seaonality (e.g. when there's no sun in high latitude winter, then clouds almost always cause warming). Another factor is what is beneath the clouds. Snow is a great reflector of solar energy, and clouds are usually darker than snow as seen from space.

76 posted on 11/24/2018 9:09:19 AM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: ssfromla

Vapor trails in the sky are water vapor, not “chem” anything. Jet fuel has lots of hydrogen and burning it creates more water by weight than the weight of the fuel.


77 posted on 11/24/2018 9:11:55 AM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Hojczyk
"Scientists Suggest ‘Dimming The Sun’ to Solve Global Warming."

:) You got to admit...sometimes they, that is to say the "Intelectuals", can be quite entertaining... :)

78 posted on 11/24/2018 9:16:24 AM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Hojczyk

Scientists? Sounds like something Cortez would say.


79 posted on 11/24/2018 9:21:26 AM PST by Exit148 ( (Loose Change Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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To: Hojczyk

So after realizing that humans are changing the planets climate, progressive scientists have determined that changing the climate is the best way to stop the changing of the climate. Film at 11.


80 posted on 11/24/2018 9:39:07 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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