On 25 March 2014 06:28, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Jesse Mazer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Climate models predict that there should be plenty of statistical >> fluctuation on the level of individual decades, >> > > Well now, it would be pretty difficult for that prediction to be proven > wrong. It reminds me of the famous and vacuous quote from J P Morgan > regarding stocks: "I Believe the Market Is going to fluctuate". >
I suppose if the climate went into (say) a runaway feedback and entered an ice age (or became far hotter so the Earth was perpetually cloud covered and racke with storms), either of those would prove it wrong, because neither of those could be called a statistical fluctuation... What is Myhrvold's plan? Oh wait I have google :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold#Advocacy Hmm. Does it HAVE to be sulphur dioxide? (Maybe something that doesn't turn into acid rain would work just as well?) An evaluation of the potential negative impact of releasing large amounts of sulfur dioxide <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_dioxide> (SO2) into the atmosphere, which, when combined with water moisture ( H2O ) can produce sulfuric acid <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfuric_acid> ( H2SO4 ) is needed. Significant environmental efforts aimed at scrubbing SO2 from automobile exhausts and coal-burning power plants over since the 1970s have been largely successful in eliminating acid rain<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain>as an environmental pollutant. Introducing large amounts of SO2 into the atmosphere could have very detrimental effects. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
