gslack
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Okay, now AGW has gone too far.....
Giant pipe and balloon to pump water into the sky in climate experiment | Environment | The Guardian
Yep... And that's not all.. Many other groups are trying similar ideas..
Yes these are all simply brilliant and wonderful ideas.. Especially the one where they dumped billions of iron fillings into 900 square kilometers of the Atlantic ocean.. Genius pure genius... Cloud whitening??? Carbon capture and storage underground... WOW, truly inspired logic, boys....
And you want to know why I question them? Why I doubt them, their motives, and their scientific abilities much less their trustworthiness? LOL no idea, I guess I must be paranoid...
Giant pipe and balloon to pump water into the sky in climate experiment | Environment | The Guardian
Giant pipe and balloon to pump water into the sky in climate experiment
Field test by British academics marks first step towards recreating an artificial volcano that would inject particles into the stratosphere and cool the planet
John Vidal, environment editor
The Guardian, Wednesday 31 August 2011 11.00 EDT
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It sounds barmy, audacious or sci-fi: a tethered balloon the size of Wembley stadium suspended 20km above Earth, linked to the ground by a giant garden hose pumping hundreds of tonnes of minute chemical particles a day into the thin stratospheric air to reflect sunlight and cool the planet.
But a team of British academics will next month formally announce the first step towards creating an artificial volcano by going ahead with the world's first major "geo-engineering" field-test in the next few months. The ultimate aim is to mimic the cooling effect that volcanoes have when they inject particles into the stratosphere that bounce some of the Sun's energy back into space, so preventing it from warming the Earth and mitigating the effects of man-made climate change.
Yep... And that's not all.. Many other groups are trying similar ideas..
Hacking the planet - potential geo-engineering solutions
Ocean nourishment
Billions of iron filings are deposited in the ocean to stimulate a phytoplankton bloom. The aim is to enhance biological productivity to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Many experiments have been conducted, including fertilisation of 900 square kilometers (350 sq miles) of the Atlantic. Results so far are disappointing.
Space mirrors
Giant "mirrors", made of wire mesh, could be sent into in orbit to deflect sunlight back into space. But the scale needed, the expense and the potential unintended consequences are so great that it is widely considered unrealistic. In the same league as the idea to mine the moon to create a shielding cloud of dust.
Cloud whitening
The idea is to increase the water content in low clouds by spraying sea water at them. This makes them reflect more sunlight. It would be pretty harmless, and cheap but would have to be done on an immense scale to have any global effect. Backed by Bill Gates.
Artificial trees
Proposed by climate scientist Wallace Broecker who imagines 60m artificial "trees" dotted around the world, "scrubbing" the air by capturing CO2 in a filter and then storing it underground. The trees could remove more carbon dioxide than an equivalent-sized real tree.
Albedo changes
Painting roofs and roads white, covering deserts in reflective plastic sheeting, dropping pale-coloured litter into the ocean and genetically engineering crops to be paler have all been proposed to reflect sunlight back into space.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS)
Carbon dioxide is collected from coal or other fossil fuel power plants and is then pumped underground. Works in principle but it is expensive and increases the fuel needs of a coal-fired plant by 25%-40%. More than 40 plants have been built with many others planned.
Yes these are all simply brilliant and wonderful ideas.. Especially the one where they dumped billions of iron fillings into 900 square kilometers of the Atlantic ocean.. Genius pure genius... Cloud whitening??? Carbon capture and storage underground... WOW, truly inspired logic, boys....
And you want to know why I question them? Why I doubt them, their motives, and their scientific abilities much less their trustworthiness? LOL no idea, I guess I must be paranoid...