Nathan Myhrvold's Anti Global Warming Scheme
Nathan Myhrvold also thinks that he has found a cheap and reliable way to solve global warming, which does not involve upending and perhaps destroying the world's economy. The global warming solution proposed by Nathan Myhvold involves running a hose up to the stratosphere with balloons and using that hose to pump out enough sulfur particles to dim the sun's heat just enough to counteract the effects of global warming. The estimated cost would be about two hundred and fifty million dollars.
Nathan Myhrvold suggests that volcanoes and other natural processes already pump out sulfur into the stratosphere and that his scheme, if adopted, would increase that amount by only one percent. Nathan Myhrvold therefore thinks that there would not be any unintended consequences (like starting a new ice age.)
Nathan Myhrvold's anti global warming scheme is intriguing, even for those people (increasingly most people) who doubt that man caused global warming is actually real. The climate gate scandal involving leaked emails suggests that the data that supports the idea of man caused global warming has been doctored to some extent. Thus there is increasing resistance to the idea of arbitrarily cutting back on carbon emissions before clean energy technology is mature enough to take the place of fossil fuels, thus causing wrenching disruptions in economic growth and personal lifestyles.
One might suggest that Nathan Myhrvold's anti global warming scheme might be part of a more rational solution to climate change, if it is a problem at all. The idea would be consist of the following.
Drop all ideas of government mandated reductions in carbon emissions.
Fund "clean energy" technology that would include not only the politically correct wind and solar, but nuclear, fusion, and space based solar energy.
Conduct a scientific study of the Earth climate, though this time with everything being above board, with real peer review, and with dissenters being allowed to offer input and criticism.
If there does turn out to be a man made global warming crisis, execute Nathan Myhrvold's anti global warming scheme while the world more gradually, and more sustainably transfers from a fossil fuel economy to a "clean energy" economy.
There are, of course, several problems, some political, with Nathan Myhrvold's anti global warming scheme.
First, the environmentalists will react negatively to any attempt to basically terraform the planet we happen to be living on, even if it is for a beneficial purpose and using a process that occurs in nature.
Second, certain politicians will not like it because as benign as Nathan Myhrvold's anti global warming scheme would be to the world economy, it provides them with less opportunities to expand government control over peoples' lives.
Third, there might be unintended consequences. For one thing, the energy produced by the sun undergoes fluxuations. That is one reason the Earth has been in a cooling period since 1998. What if the sun cooled unexpectedly while the Nathan Myhrvold's anti global warming scheme was being executed? Can the amount of sulfur be adjusted accordingly to prevent unexpected drops in temperature?
Still Nathan Myhrvold's anti global warming scheme is an interesting idea that ought to be added to the debate over climate change.
Sources: Intellectual Ventures, Official Website
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Post a CommentYou have forgotten to mention that CO2 in the atmosphere has a 100 year half life. So controlling CO2 now is going to have little effect for at least 25 to 75 years.
Another issue that Nathan discusses is the fact that CO2 is a much smaller global warming factor than water-vapour. Interestingly water-vapor is the most common by-product of many of the carbon reduction schemes. So the more Al Gore you have, the worse the problem becomes by a factor of at least 25 times.
Cheers,
Bloefeld
During one snow a man used a pressure washer to make a Ice Castle in his yard bigger than his home. Why is fog so less important to create snow and then to why not have a consequence to pump freezing cold water into the oceans that influence the pole iceberg meltdowns so those would stop melting. There are pipes long enough to obtain the cold water from the bottom or as near to it as necessary. Pumps would be cylindrical at the end of a long pipe such that are used to remove oil from the bottom. Strange that someone wants to put a pipe into the air at the N. pole pumping sulfur to cure a warm condition caused by volcanoes in South America. Does it seem obvious that sulfur will heat up automatically to you perhaps even burn cause it does.
Sadly the oligarchy finds advantage in "upending" the world's economy. That's why we've got an unending round of terror and climate alerts which justify the transfer of wealth and power to central government. See how Britain used this ploy during the Twentieth Century to effectively prohibit armed self-defence and ban handguns.
Interesting info here! Congrats, Mark.
(Re: Global Warming) "I would hope that it would get very hot now, and decrease the surplus population." Ebenezer Scrooge - 1843
(Re: Global Warming) "Especially astonishing are the very short times needed for major warmings. A temperature increase of 5°C can occur in a few decades." - Greenland Ice Core Project-An ESF Research Programme-Final Report
@Nic R
Read "Deep Hot Biosphere" and you will learn that hydrocarbons are NOT fossil fuels and we need to keep as much of their carbon out of the atmosphere as possible.
this guy is a nut. don'y mess with mother nature. "EMERGENCY BASIS" WTF "INTERVIEN THIS MAN IS MENTAL. WHAT GIVES THESE PEOPLE THE RIGHT TO DO THIS SORT OF THING.
DUDE QUIT YOUR DAY JOB YOU LUNATIK.
Aneutronic fusion is a cheap and reliable way to solve global warming.
Lew, Lew, Lew... don't you understand that the computer models that the entire AGW hoax is built upon are phoney? It's been LONG known that if you enter random numbers, you get a "hockey stick". If you entered the numbers from the NYC phone book, you'd get a "hockey stick".
Wake UP, fer cryin out loud!
You raise some good questions in this article; it is clear to see that global warming is a far more complex issue that many believe it to be. There are no easy solutions to this problem.