CBS News Reports Spraying method aims to curb global warming

[averagejoe]

CBS News reports that jets are to be used to help fight global warming by spraying the lower stratosphere....

CBS article from Dec 16th, 2018

What a great idea! Why didn't scientists think of this earlier?



Controversial spraying method aims to curb global warming

NEW YORK — A fleet of 100 planes making 4,000 worldwide missions per year could help save the world from climate change. Also, it may be relatively cheap. That's the conclusion of a new peer-reviewed study in Environmental Research Letters.

It's the stuff of science fiction. Planes spraying tiny sulphate particulates into the lower stratosphere, around 60,000 feet up. The idea is to help shield the Earth from just enough sunlight to help keep temperatures low.

The researchers examined how practical and costly a hypothetical solar geoengineering project would be beginning 15 years from now. The aim would be to half the temperature increase caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/geoenginee ... 018-11-23/

More media reports...

cnn...Nov. 28th, 2018

Dimming the sun: The answer to global warming?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/s ... index.html

National Geographic....Jan 29th, 2019

Global warming solutions, explained

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/envi ... solutions/

[Fancy]

CBS News reports that jets are to be used to help fight global warming by spraying the lower stratosphere.... :

Where did it say that jets are to be used? All I read was

In their hypothetical plan

[RupertBear]

[quote="averagejoe"]
NEW YORK — A fleet of 100 planes making 4,000 worldwide missions per year could help save the world from climate change. Also, it may be relatively cheap. That's the conclusion of a new peer-reviewed study in Environmental Research Letters.

Lock down your tinfoil hats! This should get the conspiracy theorists rampaging.

[averagejoe]

NEW YORK — A fleet of 100 planes making 4,000 worldwide missions per year could help save the world from climate change. Also, it may be relatively cheap. That's the conclusion of a new peer-reviewed study in Environmental Research Letters.

Lock down your tinfoil hats! This should get the conspiracy theorists rampaging.

Why?

CBS
cnn
National Geographic
and other news outlets are just reporting this great breakthrough!

[averagejoe]

CBS News reports that jets are to be used to help fight global warming by spraying the lower stratosphere.... :

Where did it say that jets are to be used? All I read was

In their hypothetical plan

I wouldn't think prop planes can fly at 60,000 ft.?

[JagXKR]

OMG. This is the fake news story of the year. Hilarious that there are "smart" people buying into to this garbage. Unbelievable.

[Fancy]

Not sure what prop planes have to do with anything - they weren't mentioned.

But to reach that point, the study said an entirely new aircraft needs to be developed. Partly because missions would need to be conducted at nearly double the cruising altitude of commercial airplanes. The study's co-author, Wake Smith explained, "No existing aircraft has the combination of altitude and payload capabilities required."

So no, it's not happening now.

[averagejoe]

They have professional engineers and scientists to figure what type of plane they can develop to administer the spray?

I can't wait to see them flying above Kelowna.

I'd like to see the proto type experimental aircraft!

So cool!

[averagejoe]

More media outlets reporting this great breakthrough!!!!



New York Post reports...Sun-dimming chemicals could solve climate change on the cheap

https://nypost.com/2018/11/23/sun-dimmi ... the-cheap/

South China Morning Post...

Scientists want to spray chemicals into the atmosphere to try to stop global warming

However, they admit in their report that the plan might not work, but say at least it may be possible to achieve and relatively cheap


https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united- ... e-try-stop

Scientists weigh up stratospheric sunlight barrier to curb global warming

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/euro ... al-warming

[Mordu]

Isn’t this weird science just a continuation of

. . . the climate change hoax...
http://forums.castanet.net/viewtopic.ph ... e#p2405860

?

[RupertBear]

They have professional engines and scientists to figure what type of plane they can develop to administer the spray?

I can't wait to see them flying above Kelowna.

I'd like to see the proto type experimental aircraft!

So cool!

If they're flying at 60,000 feet, I doubt if you'll see them flying above Kelowna.

[averagejoe]

If they're flying at 60,000 feet, I doubt if you'll see them flying above Kelowna.

You probably won't see the jets....

You can see the results of the contrails today at 40-45 thousand ft. now.

So I'm sure we should be able to see this earth saving endeavor!

It will be like a double whammy.

One layer of contrails flowed by a second layer of sprayed particles!

[floppi]

You know it's just fantasy at the moment. They even have to build the planes that are dropping the sulfur dioxide at a tune of 1 to 2 Billion dollars...... on top of all the studies yet to be done there is that nagging question of ethics. But don't let that stop you from dreaming. Here's more detailed links:


https://www.technologyreview.com/s/5110 ... l-warming/

https://www.wired.com/2008/06/ff-geoengineering/

[averagejoe]

They could use helicopters like in Vietnam to spray at low levels just above cities to help combat global warming. This would help eliminate carbon being created by cars where large amount of cars concentrate.....

[averagejoe]

What the spraying would look like....