It's Pepsodent for the atmosphere!
And how does Salter plan to do the spraying? He suggests using a fleet of 500 special yachts. Yachts with no sails.
Instead of sails, the yachts will be propelled by spinning vertical cylinders known as Flettner rotors. The rotors, which were used to successfully cross the Atlantic in the 1920s, will double as chimneys for the water droplets... The form the sprayers will take has yet to be decided, but Salter is investigating the use of a centrifuge or ultrasonic atomiser, like the nebulisers used for dispensing asthma drugs.This all kind of makes sense to me -- but then again, so did the last episode of Twin Peaks.
The question is: Does this odd proposal have a chance of actually working?
And is the situation sufficiently desperate to justify trying out a scheme that may strike some folks as...well...a little hare-brained?
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If we're talking global warming, we gotta talk hurricane. There are so many insane stories still coming out of new Orleans.
It's been good to know that the death toll from Hurricane katrina hasn't amounted to the early estimates of 10,000, it stands at 1035 in Louisiana.
Check out this story circulating... New Orleans hospital patients possibly Euthanized! It was bad down there, but, whoa!!! This story will be worth following.
Read it at the Washington Post.
• La. Investigates Allegations of Euthanasia at Hospital
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Two points:
(1) Some conspiracy theorists believe that contrails are already a secret scheme to do exactly that (though there are several other contrail theories that I find more plausible).
(2) John Gribbin wrote a book on climate around the late 1970s proposing a similar but opposite solution: an international cooperative effort to pump up massive amounts of cold water from the ocean depths and heat it, to combat the dire threat of global *cooling.* But now the Greenhouse Effect, plus an increase in undersea volcanic activity, may be saving us the trouble.
Until all the evidence is in, I'd just as soon not have any extra ingredients added to the chemical soup that is our atmosphere.
Come and check it out if you get time :-)
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