Goedjn wrote:

On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:15:27 -0800, wrote:

On 4 Feb 2007 12:10:37 -0800, "Some NUT named" wrote:



Greetings,

Any time we want to end global warming we can cheaply and easily by
simply blocking out a tiny portion of the sun's light. There are many
strategies for doing this such as blasting dust into the air with a
nuclear weapon creating a small "nuclear winter"

LOL!
Plonking a nut.

How so? It would obviously work. We even have empirical evidence
of that. Although personally, I'd recommend launching the dust in
cannisters off a railgun. You want your reflectors in the
stratosphere, not scattered in a column throughout the whole
atmostphere.

Whether or not it would "work", let alone "obviously work", has not been
determined.

However, there are serious folks who advocate research along those
lines. Check out the news coverage:

"Can Dr. Evil Save The World?"

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/sto...he_world/print

Excerpt:

[Protege of Edward Teller and weapons researcher at Lawrence Livermore
Lab, Lowell] Wood's proposal was not technologically complex. It's based
on the idea, well-proven by atmospheric scientists, that volcano
eruptions alter the climate for months by loading the skies with tiny
particles that act as mini-reflectors, shading out sunlight and cooling
the Earth. Why not apply the same principles to saving the Arctic?
Getting the particles into the stratosphere wouldn't be a problem -- you
could generate them easily enough by burning sulfur, then dumping the
particles out of high-flying 747s, spraying them into the sky with long
hoses or even shooting them up there with naval artillery. They'd be
invisible to the naked eye, Wood argued, and harmless to the
environment. Depending on the number of particles you injected, you
could not only stabilize Greenland's polar ice -- you could actually
grow it. Results would be quick: If you started spraying particles into
the stratosphere tomorrow, you'd see changes in the ice within a few
months. And if it worked over the Arctic, it would be simple enough to
expand the program to encompass the rest of the planet. In effect, you
could create a global thermostat, one that people could dial up or down
to suit their needs (or the needs of polar bears).