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Study suggests we could refreeze Arctic. But should we?
TheWindsorStar ^ | Dec. 10,2012 | Bob Weber,

Posted on 12/10/2012 10:33:55 PM PST by Daffynition

A record loss of Arctic sea ice and faster-than-expected melting of Greenland’s ice cap made worldwide headlines in 2012, but research published in major science journals in the fall suggest warming in the North doesn’t have to continue.

We could refreeze the Arctic, proposed a paper in Nature Climate Change. It wouldn’t even cost that much, said an affiliated study in Environmental Research Letters.

The question is should we?

“In terms of pure technical capacity, any significant nation in the world could do it,” said David Keith, a Calgarian and professor of applied physics at Harvard University, one of the lead authors in both studies.

“The really hard questions here aren’t mostly technical. They’re questions about what kind of planet we want and who we are.”


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To: Daffynition

“Scientists have long theorized that injecting reflective particles of some kind into the high atmosphere could reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface and compensate for the greenhouse effect. High CO2 levels would continue to trap heat, but with less energy coming in to begin with, temperatures on the surface would go down.

Keith’s paper used climate models to cautiously suggest that the method could be adapted to engineer regional effects. The right amount of aerosols in the right place at the right time could restore the Arctic’s frozen glory.”

QUACKERY!!!

Scientists have long “THEORIZED” that injecting reflective particles “OF SOME KIND”......

I think they have been injecting themselves with a substance of some kind.


41 posted on 12/11/2012 6:16:54 AM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Eye of Unk

The shift is not a flip as one would do with a pancake.

The dipolar field loses its strength and small polarity fields develop all over the earth. These small polarity fields slowly reorganize to a strong dipolar field with a reverse polarity. The sun does this every cycle and it is what creates all the sunspots and CME’s during solar max.


42 posted on 12/11/2012 6:30:17 AM PST by tired&retired
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To: Louis Foxwell

“With dreams like that one you should give up sleeping.”

This is why I do not watch TV, especially news prior to going to bed.

True, many mornings I wake up and feel as though I did not sleep. Thank God for naps!


43 posted on 12/11/2012 6:32:50 AM PST by tired&retired
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To: Daffynition

““In terms of pure technical capacity, any significant nation in the world could do it,”

NO THEY CAN’T. These people don’t realize how HUGE the earth is. It’s a matter of scale. The earth is TOO BIG for us to have any “significant” global impact on climate or anything else.

A grain of sand on the beach or more appropriate, in the desert.
A drop of water (or 4 to 5 million barrels of BP crude) in the ocean.

We, PUNY humans can’t affect the entire planet. It is beyond arrogant to think that we can. (Never mind that we shouldn’t even try).


44 posted on 12/11/2012 6:35:12 AM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Daffynition
By all means we should keep the Arctic cold. Or the Blob might thaw out!
45 posted on 12/11/2012 6:43:01 AM PST by 4yearlurker (No matter who you elect,the government eventually gets in.)
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To: buffaloguy
Be careful of what you wish for. :)


46 posted on 12/11/2012 6:44:19 AM PST by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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To: faucetman

47 posted on 12/11/2012 6:53:26 AM PST by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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To: Daffynition

Lefties believe in evolution, but they also believe that evolution should stop now that they are here and if anything changes, it’s bad.


48 posted on 12/11/2012 6:59:22 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state." - Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Senator)
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To: Daffynition

These people are effing nuts!


49 posted on 12/11/2012 7:01:16 AM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Lefties believe in evolution, but they also believe that evolution should stop now that they are here and if anything changes, it’s bad."

Saving this one very good

50 posted on 12/11/2012 8:31:50 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Daffynition

Two quick lessons for climate change zealots:

1) Climate changes - it will different tomorrow compared to today, next week compared to this week, next month compared to this month, next year compared to this year, next decade compared to this decade, and next century compared to this century. Yes, climate changes, and it did before AlGore was even a twinkle in his father’s eye.
2) All of the earth was once covered in water - that’s REAL sea level rise.


51 posted on 12/11/2012 8:57:53 PM PST by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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