Man-Made Aerosols Created to Fight Global Warming

The Earth; a big, gorgeous blue marble that is teeming with wildlife, thriving ecosystems, and paradise-like sights. The water crystal clear, the sky as shocking pure blue, and stunning plant life...then man evolved into a technological and industrial being which caused many areas' skies to blacken, crystal clear waters to loose their luster, plant life cut down and wildlife forced out to make room for manmade structures.

This major change to the Earth's atmosphere began the realization of global warming, the greenhouse effect, and climate change. Global warming is considered the raise of the normal temperature of the Earth's near surface air and oceans in the last few decades. The Greenhouse effect still deals with the warming of the planet, but the greenhouse effect is when the warming process is done by emissions of infrared radiation by the atmosphere. The term climate change goes hand in hand with global warming and the greenhouse effect because both of those processes contribute to climate change, which are the long term significant changes in the weather.

So why am I defining these terms for you? Because global warming is getting out of hand and since man has been one of the key causes of it, man is now trying to find a way to fight global warming by unleashing aerosols into the atmosphere. The troposphere is the lowest part of our atmosphere closest to us and is primarily made of natural aerosols and water vapor. Natural aerosols are just fine particles of solids and liquids that are floating in a gas form. Volcanoes are mostly associated with these aerosols.

When a volcano erupts, it launches water vapor, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and many other large numbers of gases into the atmosphere. Volcanic eruptions place a huge part in reflecting the sun's radiation back into space and keeping the Earth cooler. Due to the rapid increase of global warming and less frequent volcanic eruptions, scientists believe that they can cerate manmade natural aerosols that would mimic the effects of the volcanic gases necessary to keep the Earth from feeling the greenhouse effect and suffer from any more climate change that it already has.

This newly found concept of geoengineering climate with aerosols is causing quite a stir. Scientists have been using simulations to determine if this theory is possible and just exactly how much of these aerosols they would have to release in order show any success. The simulation proved that what scientists thought would work, would only work if 50% more aerosols were released than used in the scenario and this would have to be done on a constant basis.

There are thousands of volcanoes all over the world, many of them are erupting on a steady basis, but the thought has to occur that these volcanoes are states and even continents away. When these volcanoes release their aerosols, depending on the strength of the eruption and the amount of each gas released, it will travel for hundreds even thousands of miles around the globe. If manmade aerosols were to be used, releasing them in one location would be damaging and not that effective. Also, the right amount may be too much or too little in certain areas of the depleting ozone layer and cause a possible uneven distribution of the global warming changing aerosols and maybe even shift our weather system.

We also have to remember that man is creating this possible global warming cure. Man isn't perfect, one misplaced atom or too much or too little of an ingredient could do significant damage to our already large global warming problem. You can't forget about the most important issue for this global warming cure idea... is it safe for us humans?

Considering the fact that the idea looming is to use giant guns or balloons to inject the five million tons of aerosols every year into the stratosphere, on a personal opinion level, I say no. What goes up must come down... and when those chemicals come down, we are breathing them in and they are having direct contact with our skin. Not a pleasant thought.

This subject matter has to be researched to the extreme as well as possibly taking a vote of the people. The government and the scientists aren't the only ones that global warming is affecting and this type of situation isn't just a shout out to stop emitting what we are into the atmosphere. This is a life and environmental process that will affect everyone and everyone should have a say so in whether launching these aerosols into the atmosphere is a good idea or not.

In conclusion, the global warming cure does not have my vote. The only way we can cure global warming is to stop the deadly emissions into the atmosphere. Mother Nature doesn't need any more of man's attempt at saving the Earth with their manmade ideas. Mother Earth was doing quite fine on her own before we took over.