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Brighter sun adds to fears of climate change
The Sunday Times (UK) ^
| March 26, 2006
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Posted on 03/26/2006 8:29:27 AM PST by aculeus
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To: Dog Gone
And that the greatest of the "greenhouse gasses" is WATER VAPOR that keeps the globe cooled!!! What dipsticks!!! (but they'll never stop till they wipe out Bush and Capitalism and Earth's economy!)
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posted on
03/26/2006 9:38:27 AM PST
by
SierraWasp
(Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know man!!! (or especially Waspman!!!))
To: Laserman
Reflector Satellites Proposed To Prevent Global Warming
James Pearson, John Oldson and Eugene Levin of Star Technology and Research in Mount Pleasant South Carolina propose construction of a system of satellites to control the amount of sunlight that reaches and warms Earth.
A wild idea to combat global warming suggests creating an artificial ring of small particles or spacecrafts around Earth to shade the tropics and moderate climate extremes.
There would be side effects, proponents admit. An effective sunlight-scattering particle ring would illuminate our night sky as much as the full Moon, for example.
And the price tag would knock the socks off even a big-budget agency like NASA: $6 trillion to $200 trillion for the particle approach. Deploying tiny spacecraft would come at a relative bargain: a mere $500 billion tops.
But the idea, detailed today in the online version of the journal Acta Astronautica, illustrates that climate change can be battled with new technologies, according to one scientist not involved in the new work.
Social anthropologist Benny Peiser of the British Liverpool John Moores University says this proposal demonstrates humans can prevent disastrous climate changes.
"I don't think that the modest warming trend we are currently experiencing poses any significant or long-term threat," Peiser told LiveScience. "Nevertheless, what the paper does show quite impressively is that our hyper-complex civilization is theoretically and technologically capable of dealing with any significant climate change we may potentially face in the future."
The above plan is kind of stupid, but you get the idea.
A solar sail placed in the right spot could reduce the out put of radiation from the sun. Like shading your eyes, moving your hand closer blocks more sun, further away blocks less. You can regulate the earth's amount of radiation received from the sun. The question is who controls the thermostat?
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posted on
03/26/2006 9:44:52 AM PST
by
listenhillary
(The original Contract with America - The U.S. Constitution)
To: SamAdams76
Excellent! That's a keeper.
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posted on
03/26/2006 9:45:38 AM PST
by
Bernard Marx
(Fools and fanatics are always certain of themselves, but the wise are full of doubts.)
To: rellimpank
--that just might explain the shrinkage of the polar ice caps on Mars, also- Nah. That was caused by Chuck Norris
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posted on
03/26/2006 9:49:37 AM PST
by
leadhead
(It’s a duty and a responsibility to defeat them. But it's also a pleasure)
To: Dog Gone
As I was flippin channels to get to FOX NEWS SUNDAY, I came across George Steponallofus riding with the Governor of MT in a hellocopter over Glacier National Monument. The dumass Governor, who's on to some off-beat alternative energy scheme to make MT rich supposedly, was pumpin George completely full of it on the idea that OUR generating carbon dioxide as a "greenhouse gas" was causing the glaciers to melt!
This makes him just as big of a dumass Governor as Schwartzenegger with his "Hydrogen Highway" stuff!!!
The very thing that made it possible for those mountain tops to be a national monument were being melted by reason of mankinds industrious existence!!! I felt so ashamed... AND DIRTY!!! (NOT!)(snort!)(I did wonder why that smokin hellocopter din't just fall right out of the sky because of the BIG LIE)
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posted on
03/26/2006 9:50:18 AM PST
by
SierraWasp
(Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know man!!! (or especially Waspman!!!))
To: aculeus
It looks like they are building themselves a "back door" to worm out of some of their man-made B.S.
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:15:56 AM PST
by
capt. norm
(If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.)
To: aculeus
Gees, the Sun is getting larger. Billions of years from now, it will be a red giant.
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posted on
03/26/2006 11:00:03 AM PST
by
Ptarmigan
(Proud bunny hater and killer)
To: aculeus
A series of independent studies around the world show a significant rise in the amount of sunshine penetrating the atmosphere to be absorbed by the earths surface and turned into heat.
Good gracious. Doing one study on this is dumb enough but a whole series of them ?
Cut the research budgets !!!!!!
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posted on
03/26/2006 2:50:43 PM PST
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: aculeus
No scientist has a definitive explanation for this phenomenon, first called "global dimming". Supposedly, some guy kept measurements of how much water evaporated over time. His measurements showed a decrease from the 1960s through the 1980s.
The trend reversed in the 1990s to 2000. Then reversed again in 2001. The easy explanation is a decrease in air pollution.
But what this "problem" points out is that climate science and the computer models that are used to predict the future are not adequate.
The computer models can't deal adequately with clouds and solar insolation (the amount of sunlight reaching the earth).
Scientists had wanted to put a satellite in space in solar orbit, measuring "albedo" - the ammount of sunlight reflected by the surface of the earth. Unfortunately, that satellite was never launched. So they don't know how much sunlight reaches the earth, how much is reflected by the earth, and how much is absorbed by the earth.
So far, the only theory about global warming or global cooling that stands up to scrutiny are the Milankovich Cycles - the orbital anomalies of the earth - proposed by Milutin Milankovich in full form in 1940. He was trying to explain why our Ice Ages occurred every 100,000 years.
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posted on
03/26/2006 3:37:26 PM PST
by
etcetera
To: aculeus
Such rises could be disastrous for agriculture, wildlife and human settlements in many regions, especially the tropics. But scientists warn they may have to revise these calculations sharply upwards if the impact of global brightening has to be factored in. .we're doomed I tell you...doomed
To: aculeus
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Global Warming Checklist: |
- We eat too many hamburgers. Check.
- Leftists didn't design the solar system, that's why we're doomed. Check.
- Why hasn't Sting saved the Rainforest yet? TBD.
- White males are evil. Check.
- The shootout is great for hockey. Check.
- Al Gore is a genius. Check.
- Rage Against the Machine is the greatest rock group ever. Check.
- Robert Redford is the greatest actor ever. Check.
- Look out for the Phillies. Book it. Check.
- The MSM is completely objective. Check.
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posted on
03/26/2006 5:11:56 PM PST
by
Fintan
(Hey, you can't make this stuff up.)
To: aculeus
Um...I think this means that we need to pollute MORE, to protect us from the added brightness of the sun!
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posted on
03/26/2006 5:14:15 PM PST
by
G Larry
(Only strict constructionists on the Supreme Court!)
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