How to Cool the Globe

NY Times ^ | October 24, 2007 | KEN CALDEIRA

[RJL]

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

Please examine point #4 in my profile.

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#4. Actually, global temperatures have been cooling down since 1998. (False)

Please see my post #32, I did not state that the Earth has been cooling.

[cogitator]

The trend indicates that it is still warming, unless you use 1998 as a start date, which is not a useful thing to do, for reasons explained in point #4. Global temperature in 1998 was 0.2 C above the trendline going back to the mid-1970s.

[RJL]

The trend indicates that it is still warming, unless you use 1998 as a start date

Which is exactly what my statement said:

...the Earth hasn't warmed since 1998.

[RJL]

The trend indicates that it is still warming, unless you use 1998 as a start date, which is not a useful thing to do, for reasons explained in point #4. Global temperature in 1998 was 0.2 C above the trendline going back to the mid-1970s.

And why does your "trend" showing warming only go back to the mid 1970s?

Because it was cool in the mid 70s.

You members of the global warming religion are too slick by half.

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[Islander7]

...I think I have the solution to “cooling the earth”..everyone on earth should leave their refrigerator doors open..the cold air will so cool this helpless planet..Do I have to think of everything?????...

That is exactly what I was gong to suggest. LOL... Great minds do occupy the same wave lengths, right? LOL...

[capitalist229]

I can foresee the first trillion dollar lawsuit.

BUMP

[Perchant]

Automobiles produce most of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions ( a tiny fraction of the earth’s overall CO2). The catalytic converter is responsible for almost all automobile CO2 emissions. Catalytic converters are designed for the specific purpose of making CO2.

The GW hoaxters have yet to call for an end to catalytic converters but they propose Doctor Evil type diabolical plans for pumping soot into the upper atmosphere.

[airborne]

I think all the smoke from the forest fires out west will help things along.

[montag813]

The author misses one key point: the Global Warming Mafia doesn't care about cooling the Earth. They only want to de-industrialize the West and bring us down to the level of everyone else, and then have the U.N. rule over us. Oh, and they want to profit from the proicess also if they can.

How can they accomplish all that by just cooling the Earth off with atmospheric particles?

[cogitator]

Because it was cool in the mid 70s.

Exactly. And I assume you know why?

[WileyC]

I consider “several thousand years” to be brief when talking about climate change and ice ages. =)

[cogitator]

I consider “several thousand years” to be brief when talking about climate change and ice ages. =)

Then this century is going to happen real, real fast. ;-)

[Larry Lucido]

If 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. Tossing twice as much up there could protect us into the next century.

Or it could cause global winter and freeze us all. But it's worth a try.

/sarcasm

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

I think I have the solution to “cooling the earth”..everyone on earth should leave their refrigerator doors open..the cold air will so cool this helpless planet..Do I have to think of everything?????
I am way ahead of you. My step daughter always leaves the 'fridge door ajar, and even will turn on the A/C while still leaving windows and doors open! Hey Al Gore- we are doing our part!

[SunkenCiv]

Found it!

[snip] If 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. Tossing twice as much up there could protect us into the next century. [end]

[neverdem]

Nice catch! I was using Kenneth. The Times’ byline was Ken Caldiera. In the future, if I remember, I’ll just use surnames.

All this fear, crazy geoengineering schemes and money based on computer models, it’s absurd.