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Here is the plan. Customize several Gulfstream business jets with military engines and with equipment to produce and disperse fine droplets of sulfuric acid. Fly the jets up around 20 kilometers—significantly higher than the cruising altitude for a commercial jetliner but still well within their range. At that altitude in the tropics, the aircraft are in the lower stratosphere.
The planes spray the sulfuric acid, carefully controlling the rate of its release. The sulfur combines with water vapor to form sulfate aerosols, fine particles less than a micrometer in diameter. These get swept upward by natural wind patterns and are dispersed over the globe, including the poles
Once spread across the stratosphere, the aerosols will reflect about 1 percent of the sunlight hitting Earth back into space. Increasing what scientists call the planet’s albedo, or reflective power, will partially offset the warming effects caused by rising levels of greenhouse gases.www.technologyreview.com...
Originally posted by burntheships
reply to post by rickymouse
Very good points, even if mankind is not the reason for climate change.
Many scientists think that Climate Change is part of the earths natural cycle,
and dont think the planet is warming, other than a passing trend in a larger cycle.
Originally posted by rickymouse
I don't think a tax will clean the air myself. Especially if the USA is planning on using it to pay off the debt.
Congratulations!
Originally posted by burntheships
Originally posted by rickymouse
I don't think a tax will clean the air myself. Especially if the USA is planning on using it to pay off the debt.
More good insight from you, agreed, what good is taxation? The pollution needs to stop,
yet for some reason the agencies keep allowing more of it, and turning a blind eye,
while ramping up talks of carbon tax and a frenzy of summits and talks.
What a load of hot air they are.
Originally posted by burntheships
"It is often assumed that SRM would be “turned on with a big switch,” says Keith. “But there’s no reason you can’t ramp it up.”
Originally posted by pianopraze
Originally posted by burntheships
"It is often assumed that SRM would be “turned on with a big switch,” says Keith. “But there’s no reason you can’t ramp it up.”
Isn't that how they begin everything? Small then ramp it up?
For very brief spells, Keith sometimes lapses into animated annoyance with SRM critics. A moment later, however, he is calmly and logically countering the criticism with responses he has developed after years of thinking and writing about geoengineering. www.technologyreview.com...
Originally posted by Nidwin
This is a joke I hope?
Originally posted by PlanetXisHERE
reply to post by burntheships
There is no "global warming", the whole solar system is warming up:
solar system warming articles
Originally posted by PlanetXisHERE
reply to post by burntheships
There is no "global warming", the whole solar system is warming up:
solar system warming articles
Originally posted by rickymouse
The economic system we now incorporate on a global scale is very wasteful.
Taxes won't solve this, the only solution is if we either stop this destructive nature or most of mankind dies. There are powerful people in this world that can make the second part happen.