Pollution May Control Global Warming

Perhaps we need more pollution to counter the "alleged" greenhouse effect from carbon dioxide, or at least that's what some scientists are now proposing... and as any good liberal can attest, if a scientist says it, it must be so... it must be good!


Fighting global warming with pollution

"...prominent scientists, including a Nobel Prize winner, have come up with a controversial proposal during the UN conference on climate change. They raise the idea of creating a 'shade' of pollution to cool the earth. It's like creating an umbrella of black smoke to prevent the sun's heat from reaching the earth. It has to be reintroduced regularly, as the pollutants fall back into the Earth through rain and other means. It is a temporary relief while experts are looking for more permanent ways of dealing with the problem."


Could smog protect against global warming?

"...If the sun warms the Earth too dangerously, the time may come to draw the shade."

"The 'shade' would be a layer of pollution deliberately spewed into the atmosphere to help cool the planet. This over-the-top idea comes from prominent scientists, among them a Nobel laureate. The reaction here at the U.N. conference on climate change is a mix of caution, curiosity and some resignation to such 'massive and drastic' operations, as the chief U.N. climatologist describes them."

"Serious people are taking Crutzen's idea seriously. This weekend, NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., hosts a closed-door, high-level workshop on the global haze proposal and other 'geoengineering' ideas for fending off climate change."


Fighting the Greenhouse Effect with One Giant Sulfur Cloud

"Tom Wigley, a senior U.S. government climatologist, agrees with Crutzen’s idea. He used a computer-generated model to determine that an estimated five million tons of sulfur injected into the atmosphere yearly would lower the temperature by 0.9 degrees."

"Wigley believes after further testing for safety and efficacy, this method could be used until carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are reduced. Sulfur dioxide would be used because it reflects solar radiation from entering the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, on the other hand, keeps heat from escaping."

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Perhaps we have been doing the wrong thing by trying to reduce the particles of carbon (smoke) in car exhausts, smoke stacks, and other sources. By insisting that we eliminate all of that black smoke, perhaps environmentalists have in fact been making the problem worse -- eliminating the particles that would offset the carbon dioxide.

If the dust cloud from a volcano can reduce the amount of sunshine reaching the earth and reduce global temperatures, a good thick cloud of smoke should do the same thing -- offsetting the "alleged" increase in temperature from carbon dioxide.

So... let's get to building some electric power plants and factories with tall smoke stacks and start countering the carbon dioxide. That should stop the constant complaining from the liberal left about the greenhouse effect!!!

AAR