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Climate change: Scientists test radical ways to fix Earth's climate
bbc.com ^ | May 10, 2019 | Pallab Ghosh

Posted on 05/10/2019 12:29:25 PM PDT by PROCON

Scientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research centre to develop new ways to repair the Earth's climate.

It will investigate radical approaches such as refreezing the Earth's poles and removing CO2 from the atmosphere.

The centre is being created because of fears that current approaches will not on their own stop dangerous and irreversible damage to the planet.

The initiative is the first of its kind in the world and could lead to dramatic reductions in carbon emissions.

~~~SNIP~~~

Refreezing the poles

One of the most promising ideas for refreezing the poles is to "brighten" the clouds above them.

The idea is to pump seawater up to tall masts on uncrewed ships through very fine nozzles.

This produces tiny particles of salt which are injected into the clouds, which makes them more widespread and reflective, and so cool the areas below them.


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TOPICS: Religion; Science; Society; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bbcfakenews; climatechange; climatechangehoax; fakenews; geoengineering; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax
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What could go wrong?
1 posted on 05/10/2019 12:29:25 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

So then salt will be classified as a pollutant, too?


2 posted on 05/10/2019 12:31:00 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: PROCON

Those aren’t scientists.


3 posted on 05/10/2019 12:31:20 PM PDT by donna (Oh Boy! What will President Trump say today?)
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To: PROCON
"Can you say "the law of unintended consequences" children? I knew you could."


4 posted on 05/10/2019 12:32:38 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Elitist Liberals have no idea the hunger and strength of the beast they have uncaged.)
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To: PROCON

This is what I’m afraid of, that “climate scientists” will start intentionally mucking with Earth’s climate. I’ve even read in Scientific American that some were speculating about setting off some nuclear weapons to create a ‘mild’ nuclear winter effect.


5 posted on 05/10/2019 12:32:42 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: PROCON

Lol!

Nothing that a 10 billion dollar government grant to study WHAT WENT WRONG. AND THEN, HOW TO FIX IT!


6 posted on 05/10/2019 12:33:24 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: PROCON

Libtards and their unintended consequences.


7 posted on 05/10/2019 12:35:58 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: PROCON

These people scare me more than natural processes do.


8 posted on 05/10/2019 12:35:59 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: PROCON

So... Chemtrails.

Sorta like “No one would ever spy on a political campaign!” becomes “Trump should be HAPPY we spied on him!”


9 posted on 05/10/2019 12:36:24 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: PROCON

From the guys who said “low flow toilets” would fix CA water problem.


10 posted on 05/10/2019 12:37:01 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

“So then salt will be classified as a pollutant, too?”

A POISON, like dihydrogen monoxide.


11 posted on 05/10/2019 12:37:21 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: donna

Crazed Boffins to seed clouds at north pole with Sodium Chloride!
It’s for the children they say.

South Pole already too cold, giant mirrors in orbit
proposed solution.


12 posted on 05/10/2019 12:37:25 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: PROCON

Climate is complex. People who don’t understand it shouldn’t muck with it.

They fail to acknowledge the fact that weather is the means by which the Earth rids itself of excess heat and attempts to equalize temperatures.

They are too stupid to see that the Sun bathes the planet in heat during the day, and that the planet radiates most of the heat off into space during the night, and that cloud cover influences that radiation - heavy clouds, heat retained, light clouds, heat radiated. One of their harebrained schemes would increase the cloud cover. Can you say “stupid”?


13 posted on 05/10/2019 12:39:46 PM PDT by I want the USA back (*slam is a violent political movement that escapes scrutiny by hiding behind the facade of religion.)
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To: PROCON

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it


14 posted on 05/10/2019 12:41:45 PM PDT by RatRipper
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To: PROCON
Storms over the ocean doesn't whip up enough salt already?

15 posted on 05/10/2019 12:42:47 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: PROCON
These "fixes" are actually becoming possible while the Sunspot minimum has us at the beginning of another Little Ice Age such as iced over the Thames in Dickens' day and quite likely triggered the French revolution in France because the crops failed a couple of years in a row due to long delayed end of winter. The previous minimum ended the colonization of Greenland because crops could not be grown there any more. We need the higher CO2 for the next two or three decades to offset the natural cooling a bit and we sure as hell don't need artificial cooling. If these "fixes" get started - and EPA says they are underway - they will be continued no matter what happens because of government inertia and the population reduction that the Left desires will occur due to multi years of deepening famine as crops fail to grow much north of the equator.

All this has to be known to the brains and scientists that are attempting to freeze us out and I can only conclude that the results are both inevitable and intended. And as seems to be a Law of Technology, if something can be done it will be done no matter how inimical the results will be.

16 posted on 05/10/2019 12:43:40 PM PDT by arthurus (dee)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

How do we know, with 100% certainty, that Industrial Wind Turbines aren’t effecting the climate?

Or large solar fields?


17 posted on 05/10/2019 12:44:36 PM PDT by digger48
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To: PROCON
It will investigate radical approaches such as refreezing the Earth's poles and removing CO2 from the atmosphere How about we cure acne by doing head transplants?
18 posted on 05/10/2019 12:45:27 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

When I was a boy I read a kid’s science article about Global Cooling and a theory to fix it: Set off H-Bombs at the proper places to tilt the Earth’s axis and bring on Global Warming to save us all. Also, Global Warming would allow us to grow more crops and solve the Population Bomb problem.


19 posted on 05/10/2019 12:45:42 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: \/\/ayne

Do we get to kill these anti-science, politically-compromised losers if they screw it up (and their extended families)? They could end-up murdering all of us. They should be beaten with their lousy, never-read dissertations.


20 posted on 05/10/2019 12:51:11 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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