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November 16, 2006
UN Kooks Advocate Polluting Atmosphere to Prevent Global Warming
Global hysteria continues to devolve into dangerous absurdity. At the UN's annual conference on climate change in Nairobi, Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen called for deliberately spewing massive amounts of pollution into the atmosphere to cool the planet by shading us from the sun.
In response to the alleged 1° Fahrenheit rise in temperatures over the last 100 years, UN moonbats are getting serious about "geoengineering" concepts like Crutzen's:
The Dutch climatologist, awarded a 1995 Nobel in chemistry for his work uncovering the threat to Earth's atmospheric ozone layer, suggested that balloons bearing heavy guns be used to carry sulfates high aloft and fire them into the stratosphere.
You see, the common air pollutant sulfur dioxide reflects solar radiation. But this isn't a one-time fix:
A massive dissemination of pollutants would be needed every year or two, as the sulfates precipitate from the atmosphere in acid rain.
Nothing all the SUVs in the world could do to the atmosphere comes near the damage UN moonbats will inflict, once they get the funding they need from a compliant (i.e., liberal) American government.
But other than financing absurd projects to destroy the planet in the interests of saving it, the USA will have to keep a low profile. Although Crutzen reports that reception for his plan to create "global haze" has been "more positive than I thought," Jonathan Pershing of World Resources Institute warns that world reaction will be less positive if America is perceived to be behind the idea.
Posted by Van Helsing at November 16, 2006 4:41 PM
Comments
That last line basically says it all.
Posted by: Alexander at November 16, 2006 5:22 PM
In the 1970s the favoured proposal to combat global cooling was to spread millions of tonnes of soot over the ice-caps in order to heat up the planet.
Posted by: Archonix at November 17, 2006 2:21 AM
"A massive dissemination of pollutants would be needed every year or two, as the sulfates precipitate from the atmosphere in acid rain".
Does the "acid rain" part of that statement raise any red flags with anybody?
Posted by: DP at November 17, 2006 10:33 AM
