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#1 User is online   mike777 

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Posted 2009-October-26, 16:41

http://theblanketeffect.blogspot.com/


One interesting idea for solving the issue of global warming is pumping 100,000 tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere over the artic poles. Total cost would run about 250 million$.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...oryId=113899727


Union of Concerned Scientists disagrees.
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http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...ming-fact-quiz/
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Posted 2009-October-26, 16:52

This has to be one of the most idiotic ideas out there...

I am constantly amazed that the same group of yahoos who claim that climate models are too unpredictable to demonstrate that global warming exists believe that said models are accurate to predict the consequences of dumping hundreds of thousands of tons of S02 into the atmosphere.

Real Climate has a great takedown at
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archi...they-are-wrong/
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Posted 2009-October-26, 17:12

Can we wait a bit until the next "cooling period" ends before we put a cap in GHG?

Like WMD they seem to more important as motivation to declare war than they do as an actual problem.
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Posted 2009-October-26, 18:05

heh. this seems very much like the 'feed the homeless to the hungry' solution...

btw., what does one get when one mixes SO2 with H2O?
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Posted 2009-October-26, 18:47

H2SO4. Which would not be pretty.
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Posted 2009-October-26, 19:00

Ain'tcha missing an oxygen atom?
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Posted 2009-October-26, 21:06

Lobowolf, on Oct 26 2009, 08:00 PM, said:

Ain'tcha missing an oxygen atom?

H2SO3 ain't that much fun either, and from what i remember from chem (a loooong time ago), it doesn't take much to go to H2SO4 from there.
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Posted 2009-October-27, 00:13

What amazes me is that people are taking a pop science book so seriously. The books throw out ideas and connections that aren't intuitive, so they're fun to think about. The idea may turn out to be bad but, well... What did you expect? They're saying "Here's some economically feasable ideas worth thinking about." They're not saying "Hey, we fixed that whole climate change thing for you."

Incidentally, they recently posted a blog about it
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...ming-fact-quiz/
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