"Let's do some Sulfur."
There's so much wrong in that article, from BOTH sides, that it's not amusing in the least.
First of all it's coming across as one huge money-making scam. $10/gr. to buy yourself a "cooling credit?" Please, get real. You would have to release metric tonnes of Sulfur into the atmosphere to have a noticable effect on climate. And even should you find a way to pull that off what's the plan to mitigate the subsequent acid rain? Start launching baking soda into the atmosphere? And wouldn't that sorta defeat the whole purpose of launching the Sulfur?
On the other side we have (serious?) scientists saying, "No, no, no, only we should be mucking about with the climate." Why should they be allowed to muck about? Their theories are no more valid than the scamster in the article. By the time their particular 'experiments' had any noticeable effect the consequences would be irreversible and if they had one of those "oppsy" moments we're all fucked.
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
There's so much wrong in that article, from BOTH sides, that it's not amusing in the least.
First of all it's coming across as one huge money-making scam. $10/gr. to buy yourself a "cooling credit?" Please, get real. You would have to release metric tonnes of Sulfur into the atmosphere to have a noticable effect on climate. And even should you find a way to pull that off what's the plan to mitigate the subsequent acid rain? Start launching baking soda into the atmosphere? And wouldn't that sorta defeat the whole purpose of launching the Sulfur?
On the other side we have (serious?) scientists saying, "No, no, no, only we should be mucking about with the climate." Why should they be allowed to muck about? Their theories are no more valid than the scamster in the article. By the time their particular 'experiments' had any noticeable effect the consequences would be irreversible and if they had one of those "oppsy" moments we're all fucked.
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.