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| Steve Milloy is counting the cost of Kyoto |
| 2005-02-16 |
| Posted by:mojo |
| #6 I'm not the first to have this idea - A cheap and simple way to buffer the greenhouse effect |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-02-16 11:54:39 PM |
| #5 Ahem. Albedo. |
| Posted by: Snolulet Omusing8442 2005-02-16 8:39:44 PM |
| #4 Do the maths out, phil, and you'll have a gorgeous journal publication ready to go. Just make sure you have a couple of reeeealy reputable co-authors (say a mathematician, a theoretical physicist, and... my imagination fails at this point). Shipman, someone is going to harm you someday ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-02-16 5:53:07 PM |
| #3 Not libido, Shipman? LOL I think you meant albedo, though. |
| Posted by: Sobiesky 2005-02-16 5:52:54 PM |
| #2 Hell, sounds good to me. We could gather up a wing or two of C-17s and load 'em with saltpeter and then disperse the stuff over Eurasia. That would lower the Earth's labido. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-02-16 5:45:22 PM |
| #1 If global warming were a real problem then there is a remarkably simple solution, which I just have to step outside my house to see. My house like many in Oz has a galvanized metal roof. It reflects sunlight and helps keep the house cool. I don't know how much of that sunlight goes back out into space but I suspect a significant proportion. I did a quick calculation based on the known warming/cooling effect of variations in solar radiation and covering roofs of buildings seems to scale and we could use it to cool (or warm) the climate more or less at will. BTW, if this sounds like a joke, its not. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-02-16 3:03:44 PM |