Brighter, whiter clouds could fight global warming

Brighter, whiter clouds could ...
Dr Philip Rasch is Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's first Chief Scientist for Climate ScienceCredit: PNNL
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Oh Wow.. Did he not get the memo? The senior scientist working with the IPCC, Professor Phil Jones. Just declared last week that he was wrong, and that new evidence (really old evidence that was never look at because as he said \"it was lost in his cluttered office\") admitted that in the last 15 years there had been no ‘statistically significant’ warming, He is now backing down on all this \"Man Made - the sky is falling\" crap. So I\'m so sorry ... this guy will be out of a job soon so I guess he is just trying to get that government money before it all dries up.
pieter prall
It is my understanding that we have to be concerned beyond the occurance of climate warming as at a certain point a natural and sudden drop in global temperatures will occur causing perhaps an ice age. wouldn\'t tampering with the reflectivity of cloud cover to reflect light/heat away from the earths\' surface then accellerate the potential for the onset of an ice age?
Joe Cuschieri
This story appeared on a cable access show a few months ago along side of some other attempts to stave off or reverse global warming. I think is was on the History Channel, Discovery or NatGeo. The method used to create these white clouds was to burn smoke flares, generating the smoke. The problems with this method are as follows:
!st The effected area is far to minimal to make a difference alone. A blanket would need to be laid by many ships. This leads to the next issue.
2nd. The heat energy output caused by the flares is far greater than the radiant heat reflected by the white smoke thus causing a warming affect not a cool one. This leads to the compound affect.
3rd\"\"\"If\"\"\" a new method were created in favor of the cooling effect, it would make little difference because they propose to travel the oceans for the purpose of spreading that smoke. The problem is the fuel their ships burn. They would have to make an international law mandating all ships to be equipted with the smoke generators, in order to have a positive effect.
The seawater droplets precipitate out of the atmosphere within a few days, so if any ill effects start, theoretically, you can stop spraying more water up and the clouds will return to normal within days.
You\'re thinking of Discovery Project Earth. Rather lame program, if you ask me. Most of the ideas were half-baked. The smoke flares were just to test the cloud dispersion, not as a method that they could have used for full-scale cloudmaking. That episode was one of the most disappointing of Project Earth. They didn\'t even try to make anything resembling the final product. They just tested whether droplets of the appropriate size formed and separately tested whether the Magnus rotor worked.
Francesco Baldacchini
Instead of \"Can geoengineering save us from global warming?\" can someone save us from this global warming lie?
pieter prall
I\'m thinking of an articlk\\e that I read in 1972 or 73. This article appeared in Natural History Magazine and I don\'t think they would publish anything that falls into the catagory of lame.
Pieter Prall
I'm so sick of the climate-change arrogance. We are too insignificant and powerless to change the direction of our climate in any measurable way. The entire global-warming debate is a waste of time - it makes not a licking bit of difference whether or not it's changing, which way, or what the cause is. NOBODY CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This article makes it seem like spraying the world with aluminum that causes disease is a good thing!