Global Warming joke or solution?

mmpleaser

Coming out of the Paris Global Warming meeting, I read a funny article to pause the Global Warming effect:

Not sure if this is really true or joke.

Replicating planet -cooling of a volcanic eruption.  Mount Pinatubo in Phillipines blew in 1991 and briefly reversed some global warming effect.  It blocked some sunlight coming onto earth.

So now there is going to be an experiment to fly jets loaded with Sulfuric acid to dump on stratosphere to form sulfate particles to reflect the sunlight away from the earth.  Basically an umbrella to shield the sun.  

That is something else.

asuran

It must be a joke.
Sulfuric acid as the name already implies is an acid.
Once in the air whether in the stratosphere or higher, eventually the sulfuric acid particles will fall down to the surface. This will cause the ocean and water to become acidic which will have a lot of effect on everything.

Acidic ocean, less oxygen in the ocean, which may not be healthy for fish and other sea creatures. Even if those that survive they will get fished and ultimately we humans will eat them and then these acidic particles/chemicals will be in our bodies.
Is that good or not?



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The simplest way to explain global warming/climate change is that as we all know CO2 is a GHG(green house gas) which traps sunlight and warms the earth. Logically the more of it the warmer it will get.

As we consume fossil fuel, that we dig up from the ground and consumes daily we create that extra CO2 in the air which is the main culprit for climate change.

Also, trees are nature's way of recycling CO2 into oxygen. But the bad news is we keep on cutting down trees.
Less trees -> less natural CO2 recycling -> more CO2 are left in the air.
Again this is bad too. That is not even mentioning other effects of deforestation such as soil erosion and floods/landslides such as those you hear every year in the news during the typhoon seasons. Indonesia/Philippines has a huge deforestation problem.

And finally climate change is also causing the melting of the polar caps.
Logically, more ice melt -> sea water level will rise.
Many people in low lying countries will have to relocate. You think the Syrian refugee situation is bad? Think again what will happen with climate change refugees.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/10/op ... el-facts/index.html

mmpleaser

asuran 发表于 2015-12-14 09:20
It must be a joke.
Sulfuric acid as the name already implies is an acid.
Once in the air whether in  ...

I would think so too without your detail analysis.
But it is really being tested now.  So no ozone layer depletion, but added Acid Cloud to block the sunray.