How to Cool the Globe

NY Times ^ | October 24, 2007 | KEN CALDEIRA

[Old Professer]

About five Simcas?

[Yaelle]

Why are we bagging our vacuum dust? Maybe we could have city atmosphere trash dumps and collect all of our dust and shoot it into the atmosphere.

[MrB]

Always remember - the goal is global communism with elite leftists in charge of all production and distribution.

“Global Warming” is but one way that they are attempting to reach this goal.

[MrB]

I have a better idea -

those who believe CO2 is a pollutant should stop breathing.

Problem solved.

[Old Professer]

You put a CFL bulb in your refrigerator and you’ll have to leave the door open if you waant it to light up; they won’t work cold.

[subterfuge]

Or we could nuc Iran big time...the resulting particulates would cool things for a while.

I was thinkink if we could get Hil-Rod, Howard Dean and Nuancy Pelosi to shut their yaps, it would go a long way toward the cooling.

[2CAVTrooper]

“Here, I’ll put on my own mad scientist hat, here’s my cure to global warming:

A Cure To Global Warming

Place all the nuclear weapons on the planet at a central location near the equator. I’ll let the politicians squabble on the specific location. When the Earth’s rotation is such that the weapons are in direct alignment with the sun, detonate them. The tremendous force will push Earth out of it’s current orbit, resulting in a new orbit further from the sun. Hopefully the location isn’t too far away. If it’s a bit too far away we can always toss out the Kyoto protocol and rewarm the atmosphere enough the good old-fashioned way.”

I’ve got an even better idea.....Let’s just shut all the liberals up. Not only does it end the global warming, but it will give us peace and quiet since we wouldn’t hear their screeching.

[westmichman]

The effort required to print all this BS about climate change controlled by humans is causing global warming.

[MichiganCheese]

God will warm or cool the earth as He sees fit. He is in control, not us.

[cogitator]

I get the impression that the author is serious.

Caldeira definitely knows what he's talking about, and he probably is serious. He's got an impressive publication list and breadth of interests.

Caldeira Research

[cogitator]

Even if everything that Al Gore says about anthropogenic global warming is true, fixing it is just an engineering problem.

I don't completely agree, but I do agree a lot can be done technologically.

[johnny7]

Hell... lets just stoke-up the volcanoes!

[cogitator]

Do we really want to toss a bunch of stuff into the stratosphere and then find out a few years down the line that, oops, we really screwed up and it’s getting very cold?

The atmospheric lifetime of sulphate aerosols is pretty short. The Pinatubo cooling effect persisted for about 3 years, diminishing with time. If sulphate aerosol production was implemented and it was seen as necessary to shut it down, the effects would rapidly disappear as sulphate aerosol concentrations declined.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

Get those Time magazines with the nuclear Winter covers, piece them all together and make a sun umbrella like that had on the simpsons

[cogitator]

Holy Acid Rain, Batman, do you think they’ve thought this through?

Sulphate in the stratosphere won't appreciably influence the pH of preciptation.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

"f we could pour a five-gallon bucket’s worth of sulfate particles per second into the stratosphere, it might be enough to keep the earth from warming for 50 years."

Which would make entire continents look like Copperhill, TN did in the 1960's.

[cogitator]

And yet the most accurate data shows that the Earth hasn't warmed since 1998.

Please examine point #4 in my profile.

[cogitator]

Conservative analysis that CO2 historically follows, not precedes warming = total heresy and unacceptable climate impacts.

Please examine point #5 in my profile.

[webheart]

Dismantling the world’s economy to lessen global warming is like amputating your hands to stop smoking.

That does seem like it would work, though...

[cogitator]

We are in a, relatively speaking, very brief warm period between ice ages.

Actually, the Holocene is a long and remarkably stable interglacial already. Milankovitch cycle solar forcing impacts are expected to be low so it is projected to continue for several thousand years more.