Nathan Myhrvold's Anti Global Warming Scheme

Associated Content ^ | Dec 20, 2009 | Mark Whittington

[driftdiver]

Nathan Myhrvold is a former technology officer for Microsoft who has found his own company, Intellectual Ventures, which is involved in a number of technology development programs, including new forms of energy generation.

Nathan Myhrvold also thinks that he has found a cheap and reliable way to solve global warming, which does not involve upending and perhaps destroying the world's economy. The global warming solution proposed by Nathan Myhvold involves Nathan Myhrvold's Anti Global Warming Scheme

running a hose up to the stratosphere with balloons and using that hose to pump out enough sulfur particles to dim the sun's heat just enough to counteract the effects of global warming. The estimated cost would be about two hundred and fifty million dollars.

Nathan Myhrvold suggests that volcanoes and other natural processes already pump out sulfur into the stratosphere and that his scheme, if adopted, would increase that amount by only one percent. Nathan Myhrvold therefore thinks that there would not be any unintended consequences (like starting a new ice age.)

[driftdiver]

So farmers can't raise dirt when the plow their fields for environmental impact but this bozo wants to do this?

[Uncle Miltie]

You can also send up in rockets into space billions of microscopic pieces of tinfoil which will reflect sunlight.

Pretty cheap way to reduce the heat reaching the Earth.

But, I’d rather we take our chances without trying to affect the planet. First, do no harm.

[ClearCase_guy]

A lot of smart people are idiots.

[thulldud]

So farmers can't raise dirt when the plow their fields for environmental impact but this bozo wants to do this?

And all to solve a "problem" which was bogus to begin with. Guess he didn't get the memo.

[ThunderSleeps]

...would increase that amount by only one percent. Nathan Myhrvold therefore thinks that there would not be any unintended consequences (like starting a new ice age.)

So a slight increase in this pollutant is a good thing, but CO2 is bad and a slight increase may reach some mythical (but so far unproven) "tipping point"...

And this guy "doesn't think" it would cause the next Ice Age. But he doesn't know, does he. Just like they think GW and climate change are real and man-caused. Ha. We've seen that "science" which looks a lot like fraud and extortion.

[redangus]

Remove the scrubbers and release the power of hundreds of little volcanoes nationwide.

[TaxMe]

Will never get any serious consideration....no opportunity for further governmental control and political graft.

[Lizavetta]

For what it’s worth, his mother was my 1st grade teacher...and she ROCKED!!

[Rocky]

This is just plain nuts.

[ThunderSleeps]

You can also send up in rockets into space billions of microscopic pieces of tinfoil which will reflect sunlight.

That would probably trash satellite TV, phone and internet services, space surveillance radar (for missile defense), astronomical observation (optical and radio), GPS, Earth observation and Earth science...

So of course the global warming and climate change frauds (can't even begin to call the scientists) will probably try to do this.

[irishtenor]

Just put up a really, really big parasol.

[Valpal1]

The earth would be better for a little more warming. So what if the polar ice is reduced. It’s more available for the water cycle, i.e. more precipitation to grow more and better crops.

These idjits have no proof that ocean levels would go up. Maybe we’d just end up with forests from pole to pole like in dino times.

[ari-freedom]

Lisa: But isn’t that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we’re overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They’ll wipe out the lizards.

Lisa: But aren’t the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we’re prepared for that. We’ve lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we’re stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that’s the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

[Aussie-American]

Actually, if you had read Super Freakonomics you would know that Dr. Myhrvold takes a rather dim view of the global warming hype. He says if it really is caused by us, which he has strong reservations about (especially through his study of volcanos), it’s easily fixable.

[smokingfrog]

Just mix a little titanium dioxide in the jet fuel of Air Farce One and the planet will cool down in no time at all.

[profit_guy]

“The estimated cost would be about two hundred and fifty million dollars.”

...i can do it for $150 million

[rfp1234]

...running a hose up to the stratosphere the gorebullwarming politicians' a$$e$ with balloons and using that hose to pump out enough sulfur particles to dim the sun's heat just enough cause Hugo Chavez to smell them and say Obama is the devil.

[profit_guy]

it never has and never will be about ANYTHING other than taxes, control, wealth redistribution and theft...everything else is a red herring

...it’s about getting people “willing to destroy their own lives for an ideology that they don’t even really understand”

[Mister Da]

I did a little research:

The Maldives (max. elevation = 6-7 ft. above sea level) has been continuously inhabited since before 500BC - over 2500 years. Despite warming periods since then - recall Greenland, the ocean levels never swamped them. I wonder where all that melt water went?

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !