The global audience has witnessed the unfortunate and dire chaos that has recently transpired in Copenhagen. I started contemplating the possible implications of Chaos Theory and how it manifests itself in the natural world. Can we use chaos as a solution to climate change? Perhaps we can. Chaos theory can tell us that a butterfly flapping its wings in the savannahs of Senegal can theoretically cause a transcending “ripple effect” great enough to form a hurricane in the Atlantic. I now suspect that Chaos Theory may provide a much needed focal point for geoengineering deployments. I have viewed satellite imagery from the West African coast and have often been struck at how seemingly small dust storms crossing the Western Sahara can rapidly expand into “massive particle snowball effects” with dust clouds becoming large enough to become discernable in satellite imagery. Remarkably, on some occasions, we have even witnessed an orangish tint visible here in the Florida atmosphere as a result of fine Saharan dust blown from over 5,000 miles away. Similarly, low pressure tropical cloud formations forming off of West Africa typically between a 15-25 degree latitude can, of course, develop into major hurricanes by the time they reach the vicinity of Florida. These cyclonic heat engines are undoubtedly the greatest single natural extractors of heat from the equatorial Atlantic and Gulf Stream waters that also, in turn, diminish the magnitude of heat transported to the Arctic. If the frequency of these initial embryonic cloud “seedlings” could be increased over key land areas in Western Africa while reducing the naturally unpredictable intensity of cyclonic storm developments, a more homogenized cloud cooling “belt” could benefit both the climate and civilization. This could also offer a more favorable and viable “sending off point” for SRM involving cloud seeding, etc. This, I believe can also be comfortably attained within a synergistic framework involving DESERTEC/ AGRA and or any other organization. Strategically situated, brine aquaculture/ evaporation reservoirs (around 100-km2) can promote an increased frequency of convective cloud formations especially in the key “storm nuclei zones” such as in Senegal and Mauritania. The evaporated, white salt flats continue to provide an atmospheric cooling effect that increases the relative humidity and cloud cover of dry subtropical air masses arriving from the interior deserts to the coast. Moreover, large dust storm events could also pick up some of this “salt dust” and disperse it into reflective marine or cumulous cloud formations off the coast. Clouds transported by the Trade Winds progress westward to the eventual Gulf Stream. As a preliminary step, generating some computer models on the potential effect of increasing cloud and salt dust formations off of West Africa might produce some interesting results for cooling the Gulf Stream while lessening the hurricane risk along the eastern Atlantic.
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