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Scientists Plan "Artificial Volcano" Climate Experiment
First time accepted submitter tonyt3 writes "Scientists plan on conducting an unusual climate experiment at a Norfolk airfield next month. They plan to spray water into the air about 20 km high to mimic volcanic particles, hoping that their findings could lead to a solution to global warming. From the article: 'Pouring 10 million tonnes of material into the stratosphere each using 10 to 20 giant balloons could achieve a 2C global drop in temperature, the scientists believe. Sulphate emissions from the Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines in June 1991 reduced world temperature by 0.5C for two years.'"
Shhh! It's supposed to be a secret that CO2 accounts for less than 10% of greenhouse gases, and that the amount generated by human activity is further less than 10% of that CO2. If people really knew that we were destroying our freedoms and way of life hoping that less than a percent of real change is enough, they might not go with the program!
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
Exactly. Water is a much larger "problem". If they want to "fix" global "warming" then they should demand installation of reflux devices on smokestacks and cars to catch the water vapor coming out. That, in addition to being more practical than halting commerce, is also much more effective and IMMEDIATE in impact. In fact, you could quite possibly use variable reflux condensers to actually control a good portion of the weather if you had enough of them and they could be centrally controlled.
Climate Scientists (the honest ones anyway) will admit that they still don't quite know how all the climate ingredients fit together, new climate drivers are still being uncovered. Adding a 'solution' to 'problem' that isn't fully understood will only produce disaster.
Maybe a couple honest skeptics will get to see this post before the bed-wetting alarmist sheep mod it down the memory hole.
Us? lol, so you are one of the ultra-biased climate scientists? No wonder you are so butthurt and utterly immune to any form of logical discourse.
"Mythical" funding? Just who signs your paychecks there, Nancy?