No, one man can’t stop global warming. It’s global.

I remember in 1991 when scientists feared that Kuwaits oil fires would cause mini “nuclear winter.” There is nothing outlandish about Wood’s proposition. Global warming proponents are as protective of their dogma as the Catholic Church. Who says the only way to solve the problem is reduce carbon emissions? What it that works too slowly to do us any good? We need to consider all alternatives.

Jed- a cheering thought; it makes Swift’s “modest proposal” look moderate by comparison. You make Cormac McCarthy’s recent post-apocalyptic novel look like a comedy short by comparison. Ever considered antidepressants?

CC…AISP- yes; does this mean you’ll stop defending the Bush adm. for doing nothing, NOTHING, about the environment, energy conservation, alternative fuels, etc., except starting a useless and uitimately destructive war in Iraq (thus allowing dictators in Iran and NK to get stronger while the US was distracted by the bloody war in Mesopotamia)? Just asking.

Sincerely, mackb

mackb

You’re lying. I’ve critized the Bush government for not doing enough to counter global warming and come up with alternative fuels. Do you know how to read?

cc…aisp: I don’t have time to read every post on every thread of this blog; if you have criticized the Bush adm. for its total lack of action (or negative actions, such as its appointments to FEMA, EPA, and the Dept. of the Interior) on the environment, my apologies. Sincerely, mackb

The main problem is that Bush doesn’t believe global warming exists. Welcome to the twilight zone….

Mackb,

Talk about doing nothing, given that we’ve had at least two instances of preventable food quality problems, is it possible the U.S. Health and Human Services department, or whoever is responsible for food safety, is, rife with cronyism, been reorganized and underfunded? I don’t know that it has, but given that the Bushies gutted SEMA and the others you mentioned, it’s a reasonable expectation that all the other public services departments have been equally abused.

So, are we going to be ‘Katrinaized’ in the quality of our food? Madburgers anyone?

DirtyD- I’m with you there. I think the FDA (Food and Drug Admin), which is an agency within the USDA (Dept. of Agriculture), is mainly responsible for food safety, or in the Bush Adm., with mismanagement and cronyism thereof. Under the Bush Adm., the Dept. of HHS is responsible for mismanagement of, and cronyism within, public health and housing programs. Sincerely, mackb

a while back I saw an interview with an official of the FDA. Rather than acknowledging the american public as his clients, he described his clients as the drug companies.
In other words, rather than his business being the safety of the american public, it is the fast tracking of new drugs that haven’t been properly tested. Anyone remember fen-fen?
We must realize the system is thoroughly disfunctional lately. When greed is the main motivation for the way public policy is carried out, we will all suffer.
We need to hold these folks accountable, they can

Yes he can with fur and money. Love cup I miss you.

Tehrealkaaatu –

I disagree with your assessment of Global warming proponents. I think many (myself included) are open to many ideas. However, if Wood’s plan is really as super as he suggests, there is absolutely no reason to rush to implement it. It’s very nature gives us time to study it at length over the next 10 years or so. Meanwhile other ideas – old and new should be brought forward. There is nothing wrong with cutting carbon fuel use/emissions for a host of reasons beyond climate change (like health reasons, foreign oil dependency, etc). So why not keep up with that plan while other ideas are researched. I would hate to see folks sold some pipe dream about Woods idea before it is truly studied. One last note. I sense that some of the same folks arguing that “its too late do cut carbon emissions – we must react now” are some of the same folks who only a year or so ago were saying climate change is all a myth. Go figure!

The point of all this is to stop the warming if it gets out of hand. One of the first complaints that scientists had about this idea was that it would make the ozone hole even bigger, since particulates in the stratosphere really like sucking up ozone. However, the particles, if made small enough, can absorb UV radiation and be invisible to humans. The only side effects would be a cooler planet, a major decline in the sunscreen market, reduced rates of skin cancer and other problems caused by UV radiation, and bluer skies(it just so happens that the particles can do that). I’m all for it, especially considering it is relatively cheap(100 million per year) compared to the other idea of sitting and waiting it out and then losing trillions in world productivity.

Or JUSTLY, CLEAN UP OUR ACT!

Wood’s mentor Edward Teller wrote this up in ‘92. It’s been an ongoing experiment in plain sight over your heads since ‘99, involving additives to jet fuel to create aerosol artificial cloudcover. Some call it “chemtrails”. “Dr. Evil” and his buddies don’t need your approval any more than they need your approval to put laser cannons in space or fly Global Hawks over your suburbs. They just finally decided to tell you about it.

Has anyone considered what the results would be if this plan goes forth, and we then experience another Krakatoa? We would have set the stage for another Ice Age.

Sure, this scheme would counteract global warming nicely.

There’s just one “little” problem. Sulfur oxide in the atmosphere eventually turns into sulfuric acid. Ouch.

You know, blowing up a few hydrogen bombs would cause a nuclear winter, and boy, that would solve global warming as well. Why don’t we just do that? Oh, right, radiations.

The point is: there’s no silver bullet. I would’nt mind snake oil salesmen at all, if it weren’t for the fact that I, too, live on this planet.

Folks, Michael Fury is the only one here that hit it on the head. This “Aerosol Mitigation” as the government itself calls its Global Warming reversal project, has been going on since the late 90s, perhaps before that. Do your research. Forget aliens, orbs, HAARP, Demons, Bacteria, population control. This is real. It is happening now. they are looking to the corporate whores/sluts like Lovelock and Brand to appease the enviornmentalists and Hippies.

No where in this proposal is CO2 discussed. CO2 holds in the heat generated by the burning of carbon based fuels themselves. If we reflect more heat, less ozone is generated from the interaction between sunlight and CO2, resulting in more CO2 build up.
I agree with Wood’s critics. The sulfuric acid concern, among others, not with standing, in and of itself Wood’s proposal is overly simplistic.

What is being proposed here has been ongoing for several years over numerous countries, with devastating results. Google “chemtrails” and see for yourselves. We are now experiencing the side effects of the spraying and they are horrific. For this evil-doer to now come out and “suggest” this as a “future experiment” is a sick joke. Please google “California Skywatch” and see the material Rosalind Peterson has accumulated. She is the Rachel Carson of our time. The “geoengineering” of our air has been a taboo among politicians and MSM. That alone should raise red flags clear across the country.