tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448149162776456569.post5315918083506263819..comments2024-03-04T03:41:00.002-05:00Comments on Skeptic's Corner: CHIEF Mad Scientist Alert!Jerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458118248590461987noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448149162776456569.post-75946906091892373972013-09-19T02:27:43.054-04:002013-09-19T02:27:43.054-04:00I am happy that someone brought this up.
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These extracts are from the book “Omega – Murder of the Eco-system and the Suicide of Man , Paul K Anderson, 1971, (see how the language hasn't changed much!)<BR/><BR/>Controlling the Planet's Climate, J. 0. Fletcher (Rand corporation)<BR/><BR/>Notice the date: 1971 - Global Cooling, you know that period when scientists weren't really getting excited about it.....<BR/><BR/>POSSIBILITIES FOR DELIBERATELY INFLUENCING GLOBAL CLIMATE<BR/><BR/>ICE-FREE ARCTIC OCEAN<BR/>The largest scale enterprise that has been discussed is that of transforming the Arctic into an ice-free ocean. <BR/><BR/>Three basic approaches have been proposed:<BR/>(a) influencing the surface reflectivity of the ice to cause more absorption of solar heat;<BR/>(b) large-scale modification of Arctic cloud conditions by seeding;<BR/>(c) increasing the inflow of warm Atlantic water into the Arctic Ocean<BR/><BR/>under certain conditions, only one kilogram of reagent can seed several square kilometres of cloud surface. It is estimated that it would take only sixty American C-5 aircraft to deliver one kilogram per square kilometre per day over the entire Arctic Basin (10million square kilometres). Thus,it is a large but not impossible task to seed such enormous areas.<BR/><BR/>BERING STRAIT DAM<BR/>The basic idea is to increase the inflow of warm Atlantic water by stopping or even reversing the present northward flow of colder Pacific water through the Bering Strait. The proposed dam would be 50 miles long and 150 feet high.<BR/><BR/>DEFLECTING THE GULF STREAM<BR/>Two kinds of proposals have been discussed, a dam between Florida and Cuba, and weirs extending out from Newfoundland across the Grand Banks to deflect the Labrador current as well as the Gulf Stream.<BR/><BR/>DEFLECTING THE KUROSHIO CURRENT<BR/>The Pacific Ocean counterpart of the Gulf Stream is the warm Kuroshio Current, a small branch of which enters the Sea of Japan and exits to the Pacific between the Japanese islands. It has been proposed that the narrow mouth of Tatarsk Strait, where a flood tide alternates with an ebb tide, be regulated by a giant one-way 'water valve' to increase the inflow of the warm Kuroshio Current to the Sea of Okhotsk and reduce the winter ice there.<BR/><BR/>CREATION OF A SIBERIAN SEA<BR/>Dams on the Ob, Yenisei and Angara rivers could create a lake east of the Urals that would be almost as large as the Caspian Sea. This lake could be drained southward to the Aral and Caspian Seas, irrigating a region about twice the area of the Caspian Sea. In terms of climatic effects, the presence of a large lake transforms the heat exchange between the surface and atmosphere. <BR/><BR/>CREATION OF AFRICAN SEAS<BR/>If the Congo, which carries some 1,200 cubic kilometres of water per year, were dammed at Stanley Canyon (about 1 mile wide), it would impound an enormous lake (the Congo Sea). The Ubangi, a tributary of the Congo, could then flow to the north-west, joining the Chari and flowing into Lake Chad, which would grow to enormous size (over 1 million square kilometres).<BR/><BR/>NAWAPA PROJECT<BR/>The proposed North American Water and Power Alliance is a smaller scale scheme. It would bring 100 million acre-feet2 per year of water from Alaska and Canada to be evaporated by irrigation in the western United States and Mexico.<BR/><BR/>Of course none of this ever happened, at least not that I noticed!<BR/><BR/>In that same doomsday book there is a chapter by guess who? John Holdren and his long time gloom chum, Paul Ehrlich:<BR/><BR/>Population and Panaceas - A Technological Perspective, Paul F. Ehrlich and John P. Holdren<BR/><BR/>The main thrust was a demand for immediate population control:<BR/><BR/>"As we will show here, man’s present technology is inadequate to the task of maintaining the world’s burgeoning billions, even under the most optimistic assumptions. Furthermore, technology is likely to remain inadequate until such time as the population growth rate is drastically reduced." <BR/><BR/>They did touch on aerosols:<BR/><BR/>"The only heat which actually leaves the whole system, the Earth, is that which can be radiated back into space. This amount steadily is being diminished as combustion of hydrocarbon fuels increases the atmospheric percentage of CO2 which has strong absorption bands in the infrared spectrum of the outbound heat energy. (Hubbert, 1962, puts the increase in the CO2 content of the atmosphere at 10% since 1900). <BR/><BR/>There is, of course, a competing effect in the Earth’s energy balance, which is the increased reflectivity of the upper atmosphere to incoming sunlight due to other forms of air pollution. It has been estimated, ignoring both these effects, that man risks drastic (and perhaps catastrophic) climatological change if the amount of heat he dissipates in the environment on a global scale reaches 1% of the incident solar energy at the Earth’s surface." <BR/><BR/>There were only a few short years left to save humanity and the planet:<BR/>"We need dramatic programs now to find ways of ameliorating the food crisis to buy time for humanity until the inevitable delay accompanying population control efforts has passed. <BR/><BR/>But it cannot be emphasized enough that if the population control measures are not initiated immediately and effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off the misery to come."DennisAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12298054764600561913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448149162776456569.post-6388732149112018562009-04-09T03:28:00.000-04:002009-04-09T03:28:00.000-04:00Dear Skeptics Corner: I think the above comments h...Dear Skeptics Corner:<BR/> <BR/>I think the above comments have missed an important point.<BR/> <BR/>Those - like me - who think anthropogenic (that is, man-made) global warming (AGW) will never become a problem should promote the idea of the geo-engineering. I explain this as follows.<BR/> <BR/>Some people argue that decarbonisation measures are "insurance" against AGW, but they are not any "insurance" of any kind. And the proposed geo-engineering technology would be "insurance" against any possible effects of AGW.<BR/> <BR/>At present AGW is a risk and not a threat because there is no evidence that AGW exists. However, the possibility that AGW might become "dangerous" is enabling (excusing?) policies with serious economic consequences. These policies are justified as a "precaution".<BR/> <BR/>However, there could be no reasonable justification for now introducing decarbonisation measures such as carbon taxes, or cap-and-trade, etc. if there were potential geo-engineering methods to rapidly reduce the direct effects of AGW. This is because<BR/>(a) no decarbonisation measures would be needed until AGW began to become a problem and then the geo-engineering could be a 'stop gap' while the measures were introduced<BR/>and<BR/>(b) no decarbonisation measures would ever be needed if AGW never became a problem.<BR/> <BR/>All the technology for such a 'stop-gap' exists and has been proven in use. Aluminium coated balloons could be launced into orbit to reflect some of the Sun's rays and, thus, to reduce radiative forcing from the Sun. A few such balloons have been orbited and it is merely a matter of replication to launch the required number to negate the enhanced radiative forcing from GHGs. <BR/> <BR/>If AGW does not become a problem then the possibility of the technology would have avoided the costs of decarbonisation.<BR/> <BR/>If AGW does become a problem then this technology would be expensive, but not as expensive as decarbonisation. Indeed, the savings made by not having had to decarbonise for some decades would probably pay for it.<BR/> <BR/>So, the proven technology for a geo-engineering response to AGW removes any need for - and removes any possibility of benefit from - introduction of decarbonisation measures now.<BR/> <BR/>Richard S CourtneyRichard S Courtneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15760937035514462530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448149162776456569.post-55284036598071270092009-04-08T20:08:00.000-04:002009-04-08T20:08:00.000-04:00My Flabber is Beyond Ghasting.This whose boss is s...My Flabber is Beyond Ghasting.<BR/>This whose boss is saying that they will not restrict C02 until China and India does...<BR/>After all the pre-election noise.<BR/>Youre heard the story about the Krauts and Koreans pouring iron shavings into Antarctic waters to stop the warming only to have them gobbled up...<BR/>The Clampetts are running the world!!!!Lemonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09958806770271996092noreply@blogger.com