Reprinted from totallytopten.com
The solution to climate change lies not in the hands of politicians, but some seriously nutty scientists.
For the uninitiated, Geo-engineering is easiest explained as the plan B in the fight against climate change, in case our politicians and world leaders fail. And as the Kyoto agreement is due 2012, with both Bali and Copenhagen settled disappointments, it is perhaps time for drastic action.
Scientists all over the world are already on it.
10. Ocean Iron Fertilization
“Give me half a tanker of iron, and I’ll give you an ice age” ~John Martin, discoverer of the Ocean Iron Fertilization Idea.
Introduce iron into the ocean’s upper layer and increase the amount of phytoplankton (plant plankton) in the ocean. This in turn will increase the amount of food for ocean life, strengthen the ecosystem and most importantly, take in CO2 and release
oxygen. The problem however, is not just the process but the scale on which it has to be done to make an impact.
9. Cloud Reflectivity Enhancement
Making clouds whiter. How? Apparently the “viable plan” by Stephen Salter of the University of Edinburgh is to have 1500 special ships known as Flettner ships to spray ocean water into the atmosphere. The ocean spray would work within a concept known as the Twomey Effect. The biggest problem is the lack on ocean nuclei needed due to pollution.
Problem: 1500 honkin’ ships shooting water into the air.
8. Scatterers – Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosols
Release microparticles into the atmosphere at the rate of 1 million metric tons a year through the use of jumbo jets and military artillery. The idea is to reflect some of the sunlight entering our atmosphere, thus reducing warming effects and helping us keep nice and cool. Read more at Wikipedia.
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‘This is already way beyond a Cold Snap. It’s rapidly turning into the Winter from Hell.”
It may be enough to change the minds of the public and, more importantly, their insane rulers.
Feed the cows charcoal biscuits. That will soak up the burps and farts, sequestering carbon, and the resulting steaks will e self-barbecuing.
Barry Foster (15:05:33) :
Roger Knights. It was a prank. I read that original post and it was clear he was making it up as he didn’t know the parameters that the Met Office use (which even I know).
So, it wasn’t a prank, it was just someone who provided a garbage answer in an attempt to keep from being considered uninformed — and who is now revealed as an uninformed fool because he provided a garbage answer?
Marvelous. These people are self-licking ice-cream cones.
Spector (15:51:21)
“Perhaps this could be a case of ‘be careful of what you wish for.’”
Definitely agree, with something as complex as climate, deliberate interference is not a good idea. The model assumptions that would underlie any such intervention have as much chance of being true as one would have of winning a national lottery. And nonlinear chaotic dynamics in climate could reduce that probability still further to zero.
We do not believe that ‘Tony’, from Norwich,who claims to be work for us, is an employee. His comment on the Daily Mail website is not an official statement from the Met Office and does not reflect the views or policy of the Met Office.
Information about how we produce our seasonal forecasts can be found here http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/science/creating/monthsahead/seasonal/index.html
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Geo-engineering, it’s the mad science Olympics!
This is frightening. These efforts could result in an extinction.
Didn’t WUWT have a post some months ago where someone was trying to see what the effect on the ocean would be if they seeded it with some product or other? Snag was the plankton ate the product and the fish ate the plankton. End of experiment.
Bill Tuttle (23:42:42) :
“Marvelous. These people are self-licking ice-cream cones.”
Thanks Bill. 🙂
Needed that today here in frozen Florida.
Consider these Geo-engineering solutions to the fraudulent Global Warming Crisis due to ‘excess C02’; what could happen if Plant Life was deprived of Carbon as a food source for its photosynthesis in the air and water? If it was ‘too’ successful in its effort to combat faux Climate Change. This is basic High School Biology guys. We can rely on government funding to take it from here with R & D.
What could be the effects of taking out C02 out of the air on Climate and Food Production?
The solution to the Faux Crisis Climate Change with a actual Crisis.
DirkH (10:19:06) :
Nice idea, apart from planes full of people, and there are the irradiated birds, of course 😉
I thik there is reason to be optimistic about geoengineering. Read why here: http://howisearth.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/geoengineering-climate-change/.