Why am _I_ being called a nutball?

Question

Has anyone seen _this_ collection of anti-carbon insanity?

Human Volcano: One proposal is to simulate natural volcanoes by firing pellets of sulphur into the upper atmosphere where the particles of sulphur will reflect back some of the solar radiation. SULFUR COMPOUNDS ARE NOT ONLY TOXIC, THEY ARE THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF ACID RAIN!

Sulphur Blanket: Nobel Prize winner Professor Paul Crutzen has put forward a scheme which, like the Human Volcano, uses the principle of sulphur to block out some of the suns rays. Professor Crutzen's idea is to launch rockets into the stratosphere (10 to 50km above Earth's surface) and release one million tons of sulphur. ONCE AGAIN, SULFUR COMPOUNDS ARE NOT ONLY TOXIC, THEY ARE THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF ACID RAIN!

Solar Mirrors: The US National Academy of Sciences has proposed a scheme that would involve positioning 55,000 gigantic mirrors in space. Each mirror would be 100 square kilometres in area and the effect would be to reflect some of the sun's heat energy back into space. wHERE DO THESE NUTHATCHES GET IDEAS LIKE THIS??

Global Sunshade: A similar scheme to the space mirrors idea involves placing a giant sunshade in orbit between the sun and Earth. British astronomer Roger Angel has proposed creating such a shade some 1.5 million miles from earth, at the point where gravity from the sun and the earth balance. His sunshade would consist of 16 trillion individual glass discs, each one microscopically thin and weighing just one gram. On board each disc would be a tiny camera, computer and solar sails allowing each disc to align itself so as to refract light from the sun just enough so it misses Earth. AND THE GLOBAL WARMING RELIGIONISTS CALL +ME+ A RADICAL CRAZY!

Moving Earth: ...move planet Earth into a different orbit. It has been estimated that if Earth were 1.5 million miles further from the sun... RIGHT....WHEW! THIS IS THE WAY....

Cloud Seeding: Cloud seeding isn't a new concept and is one that has been tried with some success as a way of bringing rainfall to dry areas. One variation on this theme is to launch a fleet of self-propelled vessels to sail the world's oceans and spray a fine mist of seawater particles into the atmosphere. Marine Stratocumuli clouds form over much of the world's oceans and they're particularly effective at reflecting sunlight back into space. Professors John Latham and Stephen Salter from the UK believe that by increasing the number of such clouds, enough heat from the sun can be reflected back into space to offset global warming. AND RESTART THE GLOBAL COOLING FLAP, GENERATING INCOME FOR THEIR LIFETIME. RIGHT!!

Artificial Trees: A school science project provided the inspiration for Professor Klaus Lackner's concept of using artificial trees to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. RIGHT. TAKE ALL THE CO2 AND THE PLANTS WILL DIE OFF LEAVING US WITH NO FOOD AT ALL.

Phytoplankton: Phytoplankton are microscopic marine plants, invisible to the naked eye but visible from space as blooms of green ocean. Like all plants they photosynthesise - taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. Increasing the quantity of phytoplankton will result in more carbon dioxide being absorbed and when the plants die they sink to the ocean floor taking the carbon with them. OK, OXYGEN IS GOOD, BUT WE ALSO NEED THE CARBON DIOXIDE. WITHOUT THAT, PLANTS DIE. PLANTS ARE A NECESSARY PART OF THE FOOD CHAIN.

NEMO: Nope, I just want the TRUTH about the global warming/carbon credit scam to be accepted rather than the fear mongering that is currently sweeping my country.

I see that many of you did not bother to actually _read_ the question. Here is the truth about global warming.
Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.
The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.
This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.
Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).
As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).
When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.
It's been happening for millions of years.
Humans did not cause it.
Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 1

Listen NUTBALL..and remember, and digest....MANKIND CANNOT CHANGE THE CLIMATE! It's cyclical. Ever hear of the ice age? Another one is coming in a million years or so.What you are proposing will surely F**K up the planet.

Answer 2

Joe U NOT CRAZY!

I'm with you, man.

First thing I'm against is anything that blocks sunlight, be it sulfur, mirrors, umbrellas, etc . Sure, less heat, but also less energy for photosynthesis. Folks, we ARE NOT the most important living things on this planet, but you'd think by the way some people talk... Without photosynthesis, life on this Earth is pretty much over. Give Earth a chance - it's been doing a GREAT JOB for billions of years. Isn't it just like man to think he can show up at the last minute and one up nature?

And the thing I don't like about messing with the phytoplankton is that if not managed properly, these blooms can become overrun by microbes which not only consume all the phytoplankton releasing CO2 and methane, they end up robbing so much oxygen and producing toxins that they result in massive "kills" - obliterating whole patches of marine life. Phytoplankton pretty much form the base of the food chain pyramid for marine life - it is wise to not screw with it...

Answer 3

I see you've taken my answer and demonstrated just how little you know about the climate and global warming.

You're also purporting to know more as an uneducated individual than a whole bunch of experts including scientists, professors, doctors and Nobel prize winners. I think it's fair to say that they know more about the climate than you do.

What are you doing to help prevent global warming and climate change? At least these people are looking into possible solutions demonstrating that they're thinking about more than just themselves.

You also answer as if these are definite courses of actions - they're things that are being looked into. They're starting points from which other ideas develop. That's how humanity progresses.

Why are you selective in the points you choose to address? If you're going to address an issue you address the whole issue - you don't cherry pick certain aspects whilst ignoring others, that just demonstrates ignorance and an inability to present a coherent argument.

You're lack of knowledge is laughable. For example, the very first point you selected clearly states that the proposal is to put sulphur dioxide in the upper atmosphere? You then focus on acid rain, where do you think the rain comes from? You seem to beleive it comes from above the upper atmosphere - that would be somewhere in outer space then.

Your arguments don't contain a shred of scientific credibility and are based primarily on selective editing, ambiguity, distortion and little more than name calling. If you're going to apply these principles you might as well argue that the world is flat.

Answer 4

I especially like the one about moving the earth. These insane schemes all come from the same idiot scientists that tell us global warming will destroy the planet. Does that tell you anything? Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Every plant needs co2 to survive. Sulfur sprayed into the atmosphere, on the other hand, probably would cause world wide havoc.

Answer 5

it's true, carbon dioxide is not the culprit, it is carbon monoxide and methane that are increasing global warming when I was 15 I learned in my environmental science class thast you can change methane(ch4) into ozone (o3) by somehow forcing a chemical reaction between the methane and a hydrogen or nitrogen molecule I can't remember exactly what it was but why would that be in a high school textbook and not be looked at as some sort of solution? We need more plants, that would control the co2. The reason co2 is a problem is because of the carbon monoxide(CO) stealing atoms of oxygen from the ozone(O3) making CO2 and O2

Answer 6

If you put the sulfur high enough in the atmosphere it will stay there and will not get into the rain. Weather takes place in he troposphere, the layer closest to the surface of the earth. If you put the sulfur into the stratosphere or mesosphere it would circulate over the globe but would not cause acid rain.

Answer 7

Ask yourself just one question. Where would the money come from?

None of these scheams would work, though they all sound plausable. All someone has to do is get the media involved, then public opinion will let the congressmen pass a bill allowing one of these scheams to go forward at great expense to the taxpayers.

Of course the scheam would fail, but so what? Some people will get very rich off the deal. Reminds me of snake oil salesmen.

Answer 8

Those ideas appear to be better than carbon credits or having concerts to fix global warming.

Answer 9

When you point out the foolishness and dishonesty that liberals use to support their fallacies all they can do is insult you and say you are stupid. Every time a liberal global warming alarmist insults you it confirms that you have defeated them in honest debate and they have nothing left but baseless insults to use against you.

Answer 10

Here's my guess - because you are arguing over proposals for global climate management in Yahoo Answers, and evidently you worry about what people who post here think.

Could this be it?