Posted on 12/25/2014 3:41:31 PM PST by Libloather
Battling a big problem like climate change will require big ideas. And scientists in the U.K. have one of the biggest: take ocean water, shoot it up into the atmosphere, and let the resulting clouds cool the earth like a massive, wet blanket.
Granted, these folks are not the first to float this incredible-sounding strategy, known as "marine-cloud brightening." In one example, the physicist John Latham wrote in 1990 that the life of clouds might be prolonged by artificially increasing their "droplet concentration." These thicker clouds would reflect more of the sun's radiation away from the planet, in theory allowing its fever to diminish.
But researchers at the University of Manchester and elsewhere have drafted a road map for what they think is the world's best marine cloud-seeding plan. They envision a fleet of ships traveling the oceans, spraying vast quantities of seawater into the ether with a technique called the "Rayleigh jet." (In this study, the Rayleigh's efficiency beat other methods such as the "Taylor cone jet" and "effervescent spray atomization.") Dispersed in the higher altitudes, the water would leave behind fine salt crystals that serve as nuclei for cloud formation
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“I think we can save the climate by pumping the air full of liberals”
At least they would make for better fertilizer than seawater.
Forget this. How do we keep the moon from falling into the ocean?
There wouldn’t be enough cheap energy to execute this incredibly stupid plan without lots of nuclear plants. Another pie in the sky concoction. A slightly warmer world would be a huge boon to mankind — more abundant and cheaper food, lower heating bills, fewer deaths from freezing, fewer road accidents, fewer closed airports. Why is warming always portrayed as apocalyptic?
This is only slightly more science based than sacrificing virgins to the weather gods.
Shouldn’t engineers be doing this if people expect it to work?
Pi$$in in the wind, betting on a ...
Apparently some "climate scientists" are dreaming up and scheming big projects for themselves to get themselves set for otherwise totally-unproductive careers in academia!
Politicians are happy to play along so as to justify huge taxes and the politicians' skimming scams!
HF
More chem-trails instead.
Like clays! PULL!
The engineers I know don’t buy the premise.
Was it 2ndDivisionVet that posted; “If facts mattered to liberals, they’d be conservatives.”?
Where do we get the energy to pump it? Coal? Cold fusion? Free energy?
That ought to work out well NOT!
These fools will hasten arrival of next ice age.
Freezing weather kills many more people than hot weather.
Boffins at work.
I thought to stop global warming all we need to do is raise taxes, over regulate the private sector, and suppress economic growth.
When it hits
DO not ask inconvenient questions!
It was Secret Agent Man.
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