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”.
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Stupid? Perhaps not.
Perhaps they want to temporarily alter the climate to kill billions of people by so disrupting the weather as to cause floods, drought, famine, & violent world chaos. Anyone, any nation or organization could rule the world with such capability. They could also unwittingly destroy all life on earth by damaging the food chain.
It is impossible to stop climate change by changing the climate.
Climate is always changing - it’s nature’s plan
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