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Posted on 11/30/2010 9:55:35 AM PST by decimon
A mysterious high-altitude layer of sulphur dioxide discovered by ESA’s Venus Express has been explained. As well as telling us more about Venus, it could be a warning against injecting our atmosphere with sulphur droplets to mitigate climate change.
Venus is blanketed in sulphuric acid clouds that block our view of the surface. The clouds form at altitudes of 50–70 km when sulphur dioxide from volcanoes combines with water vapour to make sulphuric acid droplets. Any remaining sulphur dioxide should be destroyed rapidly by the intense solar radiation above 70 km.
So the detection of a sulphur dioxide layer at 90–110 km by ESA’s Venus Express orbiter in 2008 posed a complete mystery. Where did that sulphur dioxide come from?
Now, computer simulations by Xi Zhang, California Institute of Technology, USA, and colleagues from America, France and Taiwan show that some sulphuric acid droplets may evaporate at high altitude, freeing gaseous sulphuric acid that is then broken apart by sunlight, releasing sulphur dioxide gas.
(Excerpt) Read more at esa.int ...
Whose idea was this? ping.
Those darned Venutians and their gas-guzzling SUVs!
Sounds like a warning to the warming alarmists. Their idea is a bad one.
Big problem today -- Global Warming.
The solution? Sulfur emissions.
Or maybe not.
Let's go with that.
Make sure to note that down in your copybook!
Global Warming is happening throughout the Solar System. Keyword "SOLAR"
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We have an idiot scientist wishing us to spew out sulfur dioxide in our atmosphere?
How insane is that idea?
Volcanos do it all the time.
Erupting volcanoes yield an average annual flux estimated to be 11.9 Tg SO2 per year (64%). The estimated total annual SO2 output is about 23% larger than the most recent estimate based on direct measurements.
Our calculations suggest that 64% of the total comes from erupting volcanoes, as compared to 7% in the earlier estimate. Of the total worldwide annual SO2 flux, 9% is found to be from volcanoes.
A mysterious high-altitude layer of sulphur dioxide discovered by ESA's Venus Express has been explained. As well as telling us more about Venus, it could be a warning against injecting our atmosphere with sulphur droplets to mitigate climate change... Any remaining sulphur dioxide should be destroyed rapidly by the intense solar radiation above 70 km... computer simulations by Xi Zhang, California Institute of Technology, USA, and colleagues from America, France and Taiwan show that some sulphuric acid droplets may evaporate at high altitude, freeing gaseous sulphuric acid that is then broken apart by sunlight, releasing sulphur dioxide gas.
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Sure, but other than that... ;’)
If true then the cooling earth would seem to be a rebel, a non-comformist, a loner amongst the planets. 8^)
Isn't Obama the Savior come to end Sulfuring on Earth? Just believe in him and all sulfuring will come to an end...
I bring the sulphur, you bring the ping.
Maybe the answer is to take all the global warming advocates, grind them into fine particulate matter, and seed (them) into the upper atmosphere. Given their density, the supply should last for centuries. When it returns to the surface you have the added benefit in the form of free fertilizer.
It’s a win-win all over the place.
We don’t have to suffer them any more.
They get to actually save the planet.
And even if the theory’s wrong, we’ll have *done* something. :’)
Looking at the planets, they all fit that category. ;’)
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