Posted on 01/23/2018 7:25:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Last year, the planet was plagued by powerful hurricanes, blistering fires, and temperatures that ranked as some of the hottest on record—ratcheting up concern that we’re already knee-deep in climate change. To stave off the heat, some scientists have proposed blanketing Earth in a sheet of sunlight-reflecting particles called aerosols. This solar shield could cool the planet and buy us time, but a new study suggests that if politicians turned off the hypothetical cloud, they could plunge the planet into a sudden ecological Armageddon.
“Gradual climate change, which is happening now, is bad enough, but if we do something that makes climate change much faster, then it could be devastating for certain species,” says Alan Robock, a climate scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and a co-author of the study.
If the world took up a stratospheric aerosol project, the only way to avoid disaster, wrote Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, would be to have a permanent global commitment. “This will never be a sustainable option because such a system is inherently fragile.”
Parmesan agrees: “It’s very clear from what has happened with our latest presidential election that we cannot trust [international] agreements.”
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Mucking around with Rube Golbergian schemes to “fix” the climate is what will doom the planet.
Another admission that global warming propogandists have NO IDEA how the climate actually works.
Aerosols? I’ll donate all the spray cans out in my shop with plugged-up nozzles, they just need to pay shipping costs.
So when this solar shield causes massive crop failures and millions die, who will be held accountable?
There was an old radio preacher, back in the 60’s, I forget his name, that preached that man would destroy this planet with his technology, not necessarily nuclear weapons, and make it totally uninhabitable for people, plants or animals.
Then Jesus would return to make all things new again.
This was way before the ecological movement of the 70’s...............
...Mucking around with Rube Golbergian schemes to “fix” the climate is what will doom the planet...
They should ask Schumer how to do it.
Stop trying to outguess God.
Goebbels Warming needs a new boondoggle since we are not buying their carbon credits.
If this is “science” magazine then what does “witchcraft” magazine look like?
Reminds me of the old margarine commercial - “Don’t mess with Mother Nature”.
The weather is too complicated to control. What you cannot predict, you cannot control and, even with modern computers, the weather system is profoundly unpredictable.That was theoretically demonstrated in the 1950s, which is why cloud seeding experimentation was discontinued back then. It was recognized for a fool’s errand.
If something goes wrong, we’ll just collect all those quintillions of aerosol particles we pumped into the atmosphere and put them back into the barrels. See? Zero risk. Easy peasy.
A climate shield? Is this the climate wackos version of SDI?
With marinara.
Last year, the planet was plagued by powerful hurricanes, blistering fires, and temperatures that ranked as some of the hottest on record
Crack + Pipe = Science Journalist!
Hysterical over-the-top rhetoric shows the desperation that advocates of the Global Warming hoax are feeling. I particularly like the "blistering fires" bit. Are there any fires that are not blistering?
Wasn’t it for shenanigans like this that Mr Burns got shot?
Wait a minute...back in the 70’s wasn’t it the concencess that aerosols got us into this mess in the first place. I’m confused. My suggestion is send someone to hit the dimmer switch on the sun...if they go at night then no one gets hurt. Seems a simple solution to me.
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