Nutty Professor Has Solution to Mitigate Global Warming.

His solution would see hundreds of rockets filled with sulphur launched into the stratosphere.

1995 Nobel Prize winner Professor Paul Crutzen believes that sulphur particles similar to those erupting from volcanoes could act as a natural cooling device for the planet, by creating a "blanket" that would stop the Sun's rays from reaching the Earth. Check out the story.

Mount Pinatubo ejected about 10,000,000 tons of sulphur into the stratosphere at about 10-40km above the Earth's surface. For two years after Pinatubo erupted, the average temperature across the Earth decreased by 0.6C.

This eruption, while relatively large in magnitude, pales in comparison the truly catastrophic events such as Krakatoa in the 19th century.

His plan ignores the combined effects of the amounts of sulphur currently being injected into the atmosphere, as you read this, by any of the 8-12 volcanoes worldwide that are erupting at any given moment.

Professor Crutzen may have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, but he is sorely lacking in Mathematics, Logic, and sadly, simple common sense.

The plan is wildly ignorant of what would have to occur logistically and what enormous amounts of capital would be required. A fleet of America's largest payload rocket: the TITAN V - which carries a maximum payload of less than 3 tons - would take Millenia to build. Assuming an extremely and totally unrealistic accelerated lead time of (1) month to build and launch a Titan V, it would take 22,222 years to accomplish only 1/10th of what Pinatubo did in a few weeks.

Do The Math

1- Amount of So2 needed: 1,000,000 tons (2,000,000,000 Lbs)
2- Titan IV Rocket Max Payload: 7,500 Lbs
3- Amount of Launches needed: 266,667
4- Cost of Launch: $110,000,000 USD
5- Cost for So2 shield $293,333,333,000,000 USD

The cost does not take into account the of the sulphur. Launch costs verified at this authoritative website.

All this to reduce the Global Avarage Temperature a mere 0.06C.

Launching rockets to create a sulphur screen high in the stratosphere is one way to counter global warming explored in a new BBC documentary, Five Ways To Save The World.

And back when they thought the problem was global cooling some were suggesting seeding the oceans with iron to prevent a new ice age.

And the Greenhouse gases released from the launches???

Wouldn’t a couple of Volcano’s, or a few Nuclear Blasts have the same effect? (Nuclear Winter)

Which is a bigger pollutant SO2 or CO2? I can’t believe that someone is considering using massive amounts of SO2 to cool the planet.

SO2 + Rain = Sulphuric Acid! That’s right, acid rain.

Remember, you can’t fool mother nature. The supreme arrogance of man is reflected in his belief that he can control the events of nature on a global scale.

Be careful or you will pi$$ mother nature off then there will be hell to pay.

As usual, the geniuses here have completely missed the point.

Note the BBC's take on this. On one hand, they are quick to advance the "ONLY TEN YEARS LEFT BEFORE WE ALL DIE!!! DIE DIE DIE!" beliefs of the global warming movement. But they derisively treat any other solutions to the problem but the destruction of the American economy as NUTTY!

If we were really all going to die, wouldn't it be, I dunno, a good thing to consider alternative ways of cooling the earth? But instead, they laugh at them. What does that tell you about how serious a problem they really consider GW? If a meteor was going to strike the earth and kill billions, wouldn't we look at all sorts of bizarre solutions? The fact that they laugh at this means that they don't really take Global Warming seriously.

The point is, this sort of article is an unintentional reveal that "the global warming threat" is nonsense.

But of course, everyone here completely misses the point and joins with the BBC to, in essence, champion the standard Global Warming mythology. Big surprise.