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Climate engineering to 'cure' global warming could turn sunny blue skies WHITE
Daily Mail ^ | 6/6/12 | Rob Waugh

Posted on 06/07/2012 2:54:36 PM PDT by Teflonic

Aerosol spray into upper atmosphere could reflect light away from Earth

Scattering of red particles around Earth could 'wash' sky white

Effect visible everywhere on Earth

Most intense outside towns

The sky could turn from a reassuring blue to a blank white if scientists are forced to take drastic action to tackle global warming, experts have claimed.

By injecting aerosols which scatter light into the atmosphere we could reflect more sun away from Earth and cool the planet.

But the knock-on effect would be the scattering of red particles around the atmosphere that wash out the blue.

The result would be skies that turn into a foggy or hazy white instead of the crisp colours we are used to on a summer’s day.

According to report in the New Scientist, such a measure would cut by a fifth the amount of sunlight that makes its way to Earth, though the reduction in the amount of blue in the sky could be much more pronounced.

Ben Kravitz of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, said that mankind could turn to geoengineering to solve our problems with the environment, a drastic solution once things have taken a turn for the worse.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: change; climate; cooling; globalwarming; stanford; sun
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To: Teflonic
In order to be a leftist you have to believe...

1) Airplane contrails are actually secret government poisoning of the population known as 'chem-trails.'

2) Spraying aerosols into the atmosphere until it turns white will save the planet from Glowbull Warming.

21 posted on 06/07/2012 4:15:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Teflonic

It’s already happening.

First, the Soviets and the Chinese routinely game their weather to try and get the weather they want.

Second, there are planes shoveling something into the atmosphere leaving the very same trails we were trained to spot in the military.

Condensation trails, which in a few minutes look like ‘pearls on the end of a string’ which was a sign to put on MOP gear or gas masks, are common in WA state.

I’m shocked some environmental kook hasn’t screamed at someone about all the badly combusted fuel coming out of all the planes flying about that turn sky blue days into overcast days. Like we need more of that here in Western WA.

They are doing this right now. I think they are floating a balloon to see if they can come clean on it.

Wonder what its costing us right now? Gotta be expensive.


22 posted on 06/07/2012 4:20:35 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: Teflonic

Simpsons did it.


23 posted on 06/07/2012 4:32:13 PM PDT by wastedyears ("God? I didn't know he was signed onto the system.")
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To: stylin19a

Certain propellents of aerosols have been banned — e.g. CFCs.

Some aerosols are banned (or severely restricted) — e.g. particles of soot in smoke stack emissions. Other aerosols continue to be allowed — e.g. bug repellant, sun screen spray.

An aerosol is a suspension of fine particles in the air. The term is almost always misused in the media — hence the confusion.


24 posted on 06/07/2012 4:41:11 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Teflonic

The upshot of this report is that mental illness is vastly underdiagnosed, particularly in the “scientific” community.


25 posted on 06/07/2012 5:12:36 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Teflonic
So all the photovoltaic cells around the world will get 20% less energy.

Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. /s

A lot of very useful solar-powered devices don't have that much margin as it is, and will stop working reliably.

Stupid twits.

26 posted on 06/07/2012 7:19:10 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Teflonic
They are already doing this! It's published - they are using particles of barium and aluminum.
27 posted on 06/07/2012 8:27:27 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: stylin19a
Watermelons would spray us like roaches if they can come up with the excuse. The “green industry” would love dipping into the Treasury for more geo engineering money. They are already spraying barium and aluminum.
28 posted on 06/07/2012 8:30:13 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Teflonic

Stevie Chu and Young Jeezy have teamed up

29 posted on 06/08/2012 5:36:50 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Talisker

“Like” this isn’t already happening...

The conspiracy is just finally coming out to be the truth. I am constantly amazed that stuff I heard about back on Coast to Coast in the late 1980’s if be proven true.


30 posted on 06/08/2012 5:50:34 AM PDT by EBH (Obama took away your American Dreams and replaced them with "Dreams from My (his) Father".)
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To: Talisker

“Like” this isn’t already happening...

The conspiracy is just finally coming out to be the truth. I am constantly amazed that stuff I heard about back on Coast to Coast in the late 1980’s is be proven true.


31 posted on 06/08/2012 5:50:59 AM PDT by EBH (Obama took away your American Dreams and replaced them with "Dreams from My (his) Father".)
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32 posted on 06/09/2012 9:00:36 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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To: Teflonic

“experts have claimed”

Sure


33 posted on 06/10/2012 5:03:08 AM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil)
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