Posted on 06/22/2007 6:53:41 AM PDT by i_dont_chat
In Case We Can't Give Up the Cars -- Try 16 Trillion Mirrors
What if we wait too long to act on global warming? What if nothing we do is enough? Already, scientists are working up plans of last resort: stratospheric sprays of sulfur, trillions of orbiting mirrors and thousands of huge off-shore saltwater fountains.
Each is designed to counteract global warming by deliberately deflecting sunlight, rather than by retooling the world's economy to eliminate carbon-rich oil, coal and natural gas.
More at link (a must read)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118246650280644111.html
Another related article from February 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/6298507.stm
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
The geo-engineering of (3) spraying of barium into the clouds has already started. Do an Internet search on Chemtrails. You’ll get over one million hits. People are noticing. (I propose that now that the scientific information is coming out – the term “salt trails” would be more accurate and more palatable!)
Instead of arguing about it, simply look up and see for yourself. Those are not condensation trails you are see. Condensation trails evaporate after a time. This stuff is made of minute particles of barium and/or aluminum oxide. What goes up, must come down.
Aside from the health risks, anyone care to venture a guess of what spraying salt out of aircraft into the clouds is costing us? And where is the money coming from? And, by-the-way, the spraying in our atmosphere is occurring around the globe. This geo-engineering appears to be under the control of the United Nations, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control, and each country is conducting it’s own operations under secret by their military.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118246650280644111.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/6298507.stm
They can welcome the next ice age with open arms. I’d rather move to Australia than be subject to sub-zero temperatures for years to come.
Sheer insanity.
People with plans like these used to be institutionalized. Now they are lionized.
The entire world has gone insane. I’m going back to my cave.
I’d like to see them lionized, as in eaten by a lion.
Wouldn't that cause acid rain? Geez you can't make these people happy...
When I started reading the article, I thought they were going to suggest putting mirrors on top of all automobiles, so as to reflect the sunlight right back into space.
All in all, I like that idea better than sulfurizing the stratosphere.
People with plans like these used to be institutionalized. Now they are lionized.
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Yes, the Godless Dems have a new religion in the Global Warming “crisis”...sounds more like a cheap science fiction novel.
I’m finding it VERY disturbing that the writers for the WSJ have so little common sense, or even economic sense.
The other day, they had a front page article on some Alaskan village that was being pinched by high gas prices.
The article stated that when snowmobiles got cheaper to operate than their snow dogs, they switched to the snowmobiles, and now that gas has gotten so expensive, just WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO?
Basic economics - an alternative will be purchased instead, duh, they’ll start using their dogsleds again. Geez. And you write for the Wall Street Journal?
If you like government controlled economies, just wait until governments around the world start trying to control the climate with these half-baked politically motivated technical interventions.
I think we really need a Constitutional amendment prohibiting Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of climate.
We should also make it the policy of the US that any attempt by any nation to change the climate shall be considered an act of war against the United States.
“Oops, we were wrong. It’s getting a tad chilly down here. Can someone turn off those mirrors? What, they can’t be turned off? Okay, we need to set up a trillion missiles.......”
Not Chemtrails. Salt Trails!!!!!!!
Yummy!
IMO the WSJ has gone down hill markedly in the past few years. I will be canceling my online subscription upon its expiration.
“Oops, we were wrong. It’s getting a tad chilly down here. Can someone turn off those mirrors? What, they can’t be turned off? Okay, we need to set up a trillion missiles.......”
Followed by “How many years of Bad Luck?”
Our tax dollars at work imagining fantastic solutions for imaginary problems.
I don’t have an online sub, just doorstep delivery.
I mostly just read the condensed version of the news and the editorial page, which is still conservative.
The rest of the paper seems to have gone ignorant. Articles are written by those that don’t have an understanding of economics, and therefore, are liberal.
Precisely
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