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A volcanic idea to reverse climate change (These people are nuts)
http://www.physorg.com ^ | 08-22-2011 | Provided by National Science Foundation

Posted on 08/22/2011 12:17:22 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger
These people are nuts

These people are Marxists, and they know exactly what they are doing.

21 posted on 08/22/2011 12:34:06 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Bigh4u2
They’ve already suggested that:

I know.

That's why I said it.

22 posted on 08/22/2011 12:34:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
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To: Red Badger

I have a son who has a meteorology degree (which he notes is not the same as climatology). He described these global engineering schemes to fool Mother Nature as “a very, very bad idea.”

It’s one thing to affect global aborption and reflectivity. But, one of the biggest side effects is that you have to guess on how long something of this scale will stay aloft. If you’re wrong on its decay characteristics, you could overdo it and be talking ice age.


23 posted on 08/22/2011 12:36:39 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: KarlInOhio

So Obama DOES have a plan - “Plan 9 From Outer Space.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space


24 posted on 08/22/2011 12:37:41 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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To: Red Badger
Scientists believe that our warming world may face catastrophic changes to its natural environment, including droughts, rising oceans and fiercer, more frequent hurricanes.

By the way, Irene is the first Atlantic hurricane of the season. In all of the years of record-keeping, we've never had a year where the first eight named storms never made it to hurricane status.

25 posted on 08/22/2011 12:40:21 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (Two blogs for the price of none!)
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To: Red Badger
Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach. Learn it, live it!
26 posted on 08/22/2011 12:45:22 PM PDT by Domangart
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The mystifying thing is

the officials admit that the critters are chronic liars.

Yet they still believe them and do horrendous traitorous things at the critters’ behest. Sheesh.

Idiots on parade.


27 posted on 08/22/2011 12:54:34 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Mass psychosis."

Not really. Having the understanding of atmospheric dynamics necessary will be a good thing when the next Ice Age commences, and we need to "geoengineer" the atmosphere to make it warmer. Best choice is apparently nitrogen trifluoride. VERY strong greenhouse gas, and its half-life in the atmosphere is in the centuries range.

28 posted on 08/22/2011 1:00:10 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Red Badger

Wouldn’t this qualify as “secondhand smoke?”


29 posted on 08/22/2011 1:01:47 PM PDT by Lady Lucky
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

I think they mean more fiercely and frequently hyped hurricanes.


30 posted on 08/22/2011 1:02:54 PM PDT by Lady Lucky
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To: Puppage

Didn’t he save Lois? ;-)


31 posted on 08/22/2011 1:19:10 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: MeganC
The best thing to do about a non-problem is nothing.

Exactly right. Unfortunately, these so called scientists will not get any grant money.

32 posted on 08/22/2011 1:20:48 PM PDT by sand88 (Sarah Palin announces: August 12, Opps!! didn't happen :)
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To: MeganC

This idea brought to you by the same experts who thought planting kudzu in the South would be the ideal way to prevent soil erosion.


33 posted on 08/22/2011 1:40:48 PM PDT by dogcaller
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To: Red Badger
Time would be better spent coming up with ways to cope with climate change whether it is getting colder or warmer.

It is just nuts to contemplate using volcanic activity to offset global warming for so many reasons. They can't even predict with any certainty which volcanoes are going to erupt and when over the next 5 years. What happens if we get several big eruptions right after they stimulate one?

Are they then going to burn up a bunch of oil to offset it?

I still want to know why they aren't planting a bunch of trees to take care of the CO2? That seems to me more logical, and certainly less dangerous.

34 posted on 08/22/2011 1:57:25 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Red Badger

Can we find them another planet to experiment on — and send them all there?


35 posted on 08/22/2011 1:59:46 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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To: greeneyes
"Scientists believe that our warming world may face catastrophic changes to its natural environment, including droughts, rising oceans and fiercer, more frequent hurricanes.

Theoretically, it may be necessary to act globally to mitigate the damage. Initially, those efforts will probably take the form of limits on greenhouse gas emissions or forest preservation. But some scientists and policy makers believe it might be necessary for scientists to take an active hand in engineering a solution to our climate problems."

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See? They know nothing. They even say so.

36 posted on 08/22/2011 2:07:20 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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To: Red Badger

The global temperature is always in flux, just like the stock market and the value of commodities and currencies. And just because global temperatures are going up, doesn’t mean the ice caps will melt, anymore than if the temperature is going down it means a second ice age. Unless something really extreme, like a second ice age, is definitely in the offing, who says that it’s even a bad thing.

Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi jokingly hypothesized that since the length of the Mississippi had consistently been getting shorter, in a few hundred years it would be only a few yards long.


37 posted on 08/22/2011 2:42:22 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

“In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower
Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles.
That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year.
Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic,
can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period,’ just a million
years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards
of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out
over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token
any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now
the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long,
and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together,
and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual
board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science.
One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling
investment of fact.”


38 posted on 08/22/2011 2:59:42 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: Red Badger
"geoengineering," would use scientists' knowledge of the Earth's cycles

Meaning they will do something without clear knowledge of what they are doing or why.

Insanity begot my insanity.

39 posted on 08/22/2011 3:16:12 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Smart Grid is Stupid)
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To: SteamShovel
Clearly that should have read.....

.....Insanity begot BY insanity.

40 posted on 08/22/2011 3:17:36 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Smart Grid is Stupid)
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