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 ...
That’s been the pattern in the WSJ for many years — conservative editorial page, but largely liberal balance of paper. The news articles are generally written by economic illiterates.
(1) spraying sulfur in our stratosphere
Why not just nuke 10 of the world`s most powerful volcanoes to try to get them to erupt? Be a lot cheaper. These guys are nuts. Just as nuts as the scientists who proposed covering the Arctic with soot to melt it during the global cooling scare.
I wonder who will be making the mirrors and how much the politicians will earn from pushing this nonsense.
I think that we'll survive GW (assuming that there is such a thing...) if we don't try to fix the problem. So long as no one tries to do anything about it, we'll be fine.
Now, if people want to drive hybrids and switch their light bulbs....that's fine, as it makes them all feel good and amounts to a spit in the ocean. But these ideas could truly do lasting damage.
I can't wait until the Global Warming fad is over.
According to the National Weather Service it is supposed to be 43 degrees here tonite - - about 75 miles northwest of New York City, one day after the longest day of the year.
Perhaps it would be cheaper just to retart a known sulfuric volcanic area with a nuke, and let Mother Nature do the rest?
With all the CFR/SPP/Tri-lateral Commission/Freemason/Illuminati/Builderberger conspiracy nuts around here lately, I forgot about Chemtrails.
Paint everything white...
sulfur is out - acid rain.
mirrors are out - space junk. (look ma, no satellites)
barium - toxic.
aluminum - fearfully expensive
ships in the middle of the ocean spewing up ocean water sprays - probably only feasible measure.
I'm like you. I believe everything I read on the internet...I'll bet you even get a lot of your facts from Wickpedia...now there's a reliable internet source. < /sarcasm >
Right you are; however, there was a "series" plan floated years ago to put a "hugh" mylar web circulating between Earth and the Sun to reduce solar emissions down here. At least that action could be removed when no longer needed.
One can only hope you are joking....
Where’d you find your cave?....we’re looking for one.
Get your own - I'm not sharing.
We've been doing geoengineering for thousands of years. For example we are no longer at the mercy of the rain gods because we developed the technology to build dams, aqueducts, and methods of flood control. Earth couldn't support 6 billion people without geoengineering. We build roads, bridges, tunnels, move mountains and forests. All this is geoengineering. Cloud control is just another technology we can use to make life better. I sure hope our military is researching cost effective weather management methods since most leaps in technology originate from the military developing new weapons. Most experiments will fail but we can't move forward without trying. Are you upset about this? If the military develops effective weather control the whole global warming scare is over. Developing new technology is not only cost effective, it is also the source of America's wealth.
Chemtrails puts this otherwise series article into the kook department. Orbiting a trillion mirrors does also, as does spraying sulfur into the atmosphere. Doesn’t leave much, oh well. Just being WSJ doesn’t make it series.
LOL!
"internalized" as it were
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