by Hugh Manatee Wins » Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:11 pm
Well, since you put it that way...no. Jeez, try to see the bigger picture I'm implying when I refer to keyword hijacking. I'm pointing to <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>the context</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> of a massive culture of obscuration and disinformation, <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>not away from the cited subject of the article.<br></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br>Thanks for the 1992 reference despite your terseness.<br><br> My point about the timing of articles and the importance of managing public reaction to the 'end of the world as we know it' stands. That is my point. "Look out for being managed" and that can include true information. Much perception management does use white propaganda, not black.<br><br>There are lots of mixed messages on the topic, some due the multiplicity of inter-related systems and the need to prioritize and some just as doubt-seeding and confusion-seeding.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Confusion repels observation.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>This tactic has been used many times with foods, tobacco, you name it. "It's bad for you. No, it's good for you. No, really it's..." and the public stops trying to even pay attention. <br><br>"Aw, we all die sometime. Just enjoy yourself."<br><br>That said, here's the 1992 paper hypothesizing about using sulfur in cloud cover to increase reflective properties, a topic debated fo r years now-<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://airapparent.ca/library/abstract/policystudy.htm">airapparent.ca/library/ab...ystudy.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Changing Cloud Abundance<br><br>"Independent studies estimated that an approximately 4 percent increase in the coverage of marine stratocumulus clouds would be sufficient to offset CO2 doubling (Reck, 1978; Randall et al., 1984). Albrecht (1989) suggests that the average low-cloud reflectivity could be increased if the abundance of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) increased due to emissions of SO2."<br><br>"It is proposed that CCN emissions should be released over the oceans, that the release should produce an increase in the stratocumulus cloud albedo only, and that the clouds should remain at the same latitudes over the ocean where the surface albedo is relatively constant and small."<br><br>"Cloud stimulation by provision of cloud condensation nuclei appears to be a feasible and low-cost option capable of being used to mitigate any quantity of CO2 equivalent per year."<br><br>"Details of the cloud physics, verification of the amount of CCN to be added for a particular degree of mitigation, and the possible acid rain or other effects of adding CCN over the oceans need to be investigated before such system is put to use."<br><br>"Once a decision has been made, the system could be mobilized and begin to operate in a year or so, and mitigation effects would be immediate. If the system were stopped, the mitigation effect would presumably cease very rapidly, within days or weeks, as extra CCN were removed by rain and drizzle."<br><br>"Several schemes depend on the effect of additional dust compounds in the stratosphere or very low stratosphere screening out sunlight. Such dust might be delivered to the stratosphere by various means, including being fired with large rifles or rockets or being lifted by hydrogen or hot-air balloons. These possibilities appear feasible, economical, and capable of mitigating the effect of as much CO2 equivalent per year as we care to pay for. (Lifting dust, or soot, to the tropopause or the low stratosphere with aircraft may be limited, at low cost, to the mitigation of 8 to 80 Gt CO2 equivalent per year.)"<br><br>" Such systems could probably be put into full effect within a year or two of a decision to do so, and mitigation effects would begin immediately."<br><br>"Because dust falls out naturally, if the delivery of dust were stopped, mitigation effects would cease within about 6 months for dust (or soot) delivered to the tropopause and within a couple of years for dust delivered to the midstratosphere."<br><br>"Sunlight screening systems would not have to be put into practice until shortly before they were needed for mitigation, although research to understand their effects, as well as design and engineering work, should be done now so that it will be known whether these technologies are available if wanted."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Imagine how this can be used to justify burning the huge amounts of cheap coal loaded with sulfur.<br><br>Already Time Magazine tried to suggest using more nuclear power in its issue that admitted global warming was real.<br><br>The P.R industry will use every excuse it can to continue the status quo and even make it worse.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>So pay attention to keywords which have big negative connotations when they are presented as big positive attributes.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Fair enough? <p></p><i></i>