Originally Posted by Gladiator

The implementation of man-made global cooling may not require the belief in AWG, or man made Global Warming.

The Arctic Ice Caps have been getting less ice during the Summer, for some years, for whatever reason. So, regardless of the reason for the reduction in Arctic Ice caps, except for the last few years, since Volcanos put up significant amounts of SO2, in 2008. So if the ice caps start getting smaller again, and there is insufficient Volcanic spewing of SO2, then Men can put the SO2 up there themselves, to reverse global warming, as needed to maintain the Arctic Ice Cap.


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Originally Posted by jamesrage

The discussion is about screwing with climate just because some religious nuts think the world is getting hotter. So what I said is relevant. His idea is similar to what global cooling religious nuts many years ago proposed.

Originally Posted by Kandahar

I just finished reading Superfreakonomics, the sequel to Freakonomics, and the authors have some very interesting ideas for how to reverse global warming WITHOUT spending a fortune to do so.

- Spray sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere through a super-tall smokestack. It would essentially be a hose that was miles long, held together with balloons. It could be attached to a factory's normal smokestacks, which would ejects its sulfur dioxide waste into the stratosphere (several miles up) instead of the troposphere (the near-surface air). A single hose on each of a mere two factories - one in the Northern Hemisphere and one in the Southern Hemisphere - would be sufficient. This would mirror the effect of a relatively large volcanic eruption like Mount Pinatubo, and would cool the earth by a couple degrees. TOTAL COST: $20 million in startup, $10 million per year.

- A fleet of wind-powered boats which sit in the ocean, and have underwater turbines to fling sea water into the atmosphere and create clouds. The white clouds, unlike the black ocean, would reflect sunlight and cool the earth by a couple degrees. TOTAL COST: A few billion dollars total.

What do you guys think? The technology for these already exists, and it would be much cheaper than the hundreds of billions we'd need to spend EVERY YEAR on climate change legislation. The scientists seem to think that these proposals are perfectly safe and feasible, but if they produced any unintended environmental consequences, the machines could easily be shut off and any damages would be reversed within a couple years.

Originally Posted by Gladiator

Saw Myhrvold on CNN Sunday, his idea is to run a hose up 20 miles at the Antarctic and Arctic Circles, and pump 30 GPM SO2 into the upper atmosphere, to keep the poles cool.

He says his computer models are hopeful so far.


"Hose-to-the-Sky:" Still Spewing SO2 Idea to Stop Global Warming? : TreeHugger


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Originally Posted by bowerbird

Only a couple of wee problems with increasing the amount of SO2 in the atmosphere



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Originally Posted by bicycleman

C02 is a product of breathing. Plants need C02 to live. In turn, they give off 02 for humnans to breathe. What's the problem, here? It is the cycle of life. We all learned that in science class.

Originally Posted by Gladiator

The injection of SO2 at the poles would be above the level of the clouds, and therefore above the level of the formation of rain.

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The SO2 is used up in the upper atmosphere, by some process, and does not come down as acid rain. I don't yet understand the details of the SO2 reactions above the clouds.




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