Posted on 04/07/2016 12:03:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
What uncertainty? The climate will always change. Nothing we can do will ever affect it more than a pinprick affects an elephant.
Right up there with "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" and "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor".
US National Academy Geoengineering reflecting sunlight to cool earth study (2015)
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/18988/climate-intervention-reflecting-sunlight-to-cool-earth
Authors
Committee on Geoengineering Climate: Technical Evaluation and Discussion of Impacts; Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate; Ocean Studies Board; Division on Earth and Life Studies; National Research Council
As one of a two-book report, this volume of Climate Intervention discusses albedo modification - changing the fraction of incoming solar radiation that reaches the surface. This approach would deliberately modify the energy budget of Earth to produce a cooling designed to compensate for some of the effects of warming associated with greenhouse gas increases. The prospect of large-scale albedo modification raises political and governance issues at national and global levels, as well as ethical concerns. Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth discusses some of the social, political, and legal issues surrounding these proposed techniques.
Solar geoengineering using solid aerosol in the stratosphere
www.atmos-chem-phys.net/15/11835/2015/acp-15-11835-20... Proxy Highlight
Oct 26, 2015 ... Solar geoengineering, or solar radiation management (SRM) has the possibility of .... the potential of solid particles to deliver higher mass-specific scattering efficiency ..... flame spray pyrolysis is used to make structured nanoparti- ..... clouds or molecular scattering and are limited by the index of refraction ...
Field experiments on solar geoengineering: report of a workshop ...
rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/372/2031/20140175 Proxy Highlight
Nov 17, 2014 ... Note that changes to cirrus clouds will alter both solar and infrared fluxes. Our use of SRM corresponds to radiation management as defined in ..... each involve spraying of natural sea salt, the exact salt mass flux for a .... R.D.’s work on climate decision support was done at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...
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