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How artificially brightened clouds could stop climate change
BBC News ^ | February 26, 2019 | By Tim Smedley

Posted on 02/26/2019 11:30:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

... Currently around 30% of the sun’s rays that reach Earth are reflected back to space by white surfaces, largely our polar ice. Sea ice reflects sunlight better than any known natural surface, bouncing around 90% back up; at the other end of the scale, the dark open ocean reflects just 6% of sunlight and absorbs 94%. With Arctic sea ice rapidly declining, replacing one with the other is expected to see global warming accelerate. Unless, that is, we find another white surface that can do the job.

There have been many suggestions for artificial reflective surfaces: launching mirrors into space to orbit around the earth; building wind-powered ice machines over the Arctic, or scattering it with trillions of silica beads.

Stephen Salter, Emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, has been one of the leading voices of this movement.

“I didn’t realise quite how hard it was going to be,” Salter now admits. Seawater, for instance, tends to clog up or corrode spray nozzles, let alone ones capable of spraying particles just 0.8 micron in size. And that’s not to mention the difficulties of modelling the effects on the weather and climate. But his latest design, he believes, is ready to build: an unmanned hydro-foil ship, computer-controlled and wind-powered, which pumps an ultra-fine mist of sea salt toward the cloud layer.

“Spraying about 10 cubic metres per second could undo all the [global warming] damage we’ve done to the world up until now,” Salter claims. And, he says, the annual cost would be less than the cost to host the annual UN Climate Conference – between $100-$200 million each year.

Salter boasts that 160 of his ships could “moderate an El Niño event, and a few hundred [would] stop hurricanes”.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hoax; propaganda; socialism; timsmedley; unitedkingdom
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Stephen Hugh Salter is Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design at the University of Edinburgh and inventor of the eponymous Salter duck wave energy device.

Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.

1 posted on 02/26/2019 11:30:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These people are a special kind of stupid!


2 posted on 02/26/2019 11:32:11 AM PST by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, according to the merry band of gorons, polar ice won’t be an issue soon. So............


3 posted on 02/26/2019 11:33:16 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These fools are going to create some artificial cloud cover for the Earth and plunge us into a truly disastrous, massive economy crippling Ice Age.


4 posted on 02/26/2019 11:34:08 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why not just paint the oceans white?

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5 posted on 02/26/2019 11:34:40 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought the Bigfoot people were nuts:

This guy is waaaaay above that.


6 posted on 02/26/2019 11:35:15 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Artcore

So spaying salt on the clouds would fix it? Um, what happens when salt starts raining down on arable land?


7 posted on 02/26/2019 11:35:34 AM PST by AFreeBird
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How artificially brightened clouds could stop climate change

But can artificially brightened clouds be used to transfer billions of dollars in wealth to African despots? If not, it's not a solution.

8 posted on 02/26/2019 11:36:13 AM PST by Drew68 (No, as a matter of fact, I didn't read the article.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wonder if dental enamel would help. We could all brush our teeth, look up to Heaven and Smile.


9 posted on 02/26/2019 11:37:35 AM PST by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a tangled web.


10 posted on 02/26/2019 11:37:58 AM PST by fwdude (Think about it: Blacks were made slaves in Africa, but were made free men in America.)
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Stephen Hugh Salter

“which pumps an ultra-fine mist of sea salt toward the cloud layer.”

He’s only saying that because his name is “Salter”

how about giant reflectors floating on the oceans?

How about giant fans to cool the earff?

How about massive terrestrial outdoor air conditioners?

How about ... blah blah blah


11 posted on 02/26/2019 11:38:05 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why would we want to stop climate change?


12 posted on 02/26/2019 11:39:09 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Put the sulphur compounds back in diesel and remove the
scrubbers from power plants.


13 posted on 02/26/2019 11:39:33 AM PST by sasquatch
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14 posted on 02/26/2019 11:39:54 AM PST by DannyTN
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15 posted on 02/26/2019 11:39:58 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: married21

LOL


16 posted on 02/26/2019 11:40:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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WOW!!! I don’t know what they are smokin but they could make a fortune here in SoCal


17 posted on 02/26/2019 11:40:47 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: DannyTN

Good one..!


18 posted on 02/26/2019 11:41:24 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Drew68

Even if this was effective it will never see the light of day due to it being relatively cheap. Big Climate will see to that. They are not interested in anything that doesn’t involve trillions of money redistributed and a global socialist enterprise.


19 posted on 02/26/2019 11:44:46 AM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’ve seen this movie.

It doesn’t end well.


20 posted on 02/26/2019 11:46:20 AM PST by moovova
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