"Experiments to dim the sun could start"
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https://archive.is/20250424081054/https://www.tele...
Seen this pop up on a couple of news sites recently, and have to say this doesn't sound like a good idea, what could possibly go wrong?
Seen this pop up on a couple of news sites recently, and have to say this doesn't sound like a good idea, what could possibly go wrong?
so, re-creating a side effect of the industrial revolution that artificially kept the planet's temperatures down - AKA global Dimming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
A realistic alternative theory that by cleaning up the atmosphere of large particles we are actually allowing teh planets temperature to revert to the correct temp point that it should be at, and that it has been kept artificially cold by a smog layer.
do wish they would make their minds up ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
A realistic alternative theory that by cleaning up the atmosphere of large particles we are actually allowing teh planets temperature to revert to the correct temp point that it should be at, and that it has been kept artificially cold by a smog layer.
do wish they would make their minds up ....
simon_harris said:
Hang on I thought global warming was caused by us all driving our cars and eating steak and had nothing to do with the Sun?
Global Warming was canned when it couldn't be used to fit narratives anymore, thus the phrase Climate Change being thrust into the mainstream instead.I should add that while I believe the climate has changed, and it is likely partly to do with Human interference, I don't believe we're on the edge of a global climate catastrophe that we're constantly sold.
otolith said:
simon_harris said:
Hang on I thought global warming was caused by us all driving our cars and eating steak and had nothing to do with the Sun?
It's to do with an increased proportion of the solar radiation reaching the atmosphere being retained within it. PDF https://watermark.silverchair.com/050007_1_5.01831...
Brucie Bonus...in addition to SW data above, Koutsoyianns and Vournas (2023) show no discernible impact on the greenhouse effect from 100 years of downwelling LW radiation data as CO2 levels increased from 300ppmv to over 400ppmv. "We conclude that the observed increase of the atmospheric CO2 concentration has not altered, in a discernible manner, the greenhouse effect"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/026266...
Another interesting aspect of this news is that experiments increasing cloud albedo will have the desired effect on cloud albedo. However the planet's complex chaotic non-linear climate system is just that, involving couplings and feedbacks, so the overall output from any given input cannot be known with certainty as time goes by.
In God we trust; all others bring data
(attributed to W. Edwards Deming, American engineer, statistician)
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