Using Cloud-Seeding GeoEngineering to Solve Global Warming

This clip from the "Five Ways to Save the World" details a cheap, simple, and low-risk way to compensate for global warming.

If the reflectivity of clouds could be increased slightly, sufficient sunlight would be reflected to compensate for any future release of CO2 into the atmosphere.

One method of doing this would be to eject seawater spray into the air using a fleet of automated ships. It's estimated that 50 ships costing a few million dollars each could spray enough seawater to do the job.
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cybrbeastsays...

Nice idea, but I'm pretty skeptical that you could change the entire Earth climate with only fifty ships. Cloud mechanics are notoriously difficult, and even the role of clouds in global warming is far from understood. Some clouds add to global warming by trapping heat and others subtract by reflecting more heat than they trap.
I say this research deserves a lot more funds.

Guardian-Xsays...

He said they would need 50 ships to be built every year, so the armada could eventually cover enough of an area to have an effect. It could be feasible if given enough time.

joedirtsays...

WTF. And how do you power this? Solar (haha.. little joke)
I believe this increases greenhouse effect.


Did you catch the guy's name.... Steven Salter.

Too funny, it's like the Diebold spokeperson, Rigall.

blankfistsays...

You know, our collective breaths are carbon emissions, so maybe we should all kill someone to lessen the breathing population. Wow, that's healthy that that's the place I go for curing global warming. Jesus.

bamdrewsays...

wouldn't it be massively changing humidity in the atmosphere... sounds like it would be worth trying but only because if its a bust it really wasn't that much of an investment (on a global scale).

quantumushroomsays...

Global warming is an alternative religion for atheists and socialists.

It's arrogant to presume man can change the weather on a global scale, and evil arrogance to enslave humanity in order to "reverse" these proof-less man-made changes.

choggiesays...

How about the pollution-free, coal burning power plants they want to build, where part of the procedure is to bury the CO2??? Why bury CO2 when thousands of metric tonnes of sulphurous-acid come pouring out of the goddamn planet herself, from many many many volcanic ocean fissures? Why don't the GW pundits EVER mention the earth's own contribution to the phenom?? Because they want you to believe in a new money hole.......So the globe is warming/cooling, and the keepers want to keep the dollar bill addiction alive till the Pacific Rim pops....better chance for them to survive in control perhaps?

If $$$$ was not a factor on this planet, truth would be that much more tangible.......

grahamslamsays...

I'm too lazy to find my source on this...but i remember reading that we are currently getting less sunshine to the surface of the earth then we were just decades ago and it is causing problems with plant life. So lets try to correct one problem and in the meantime, its making other problems worse.

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