Scientist: Inject Sulfur into Air to Battle Global Warming

[Saddle Bronc 124]

although it will probably stink for a while cause of that

Partly true. Sulphur dioxide DOES stink (of burning sulphur/rubber), though less than hydrogen sulphide.

Oh, then one can shut down all Klaus plants (which remove sulphur-containing compounds such as hydrogen sulphide, carbon disulphide, carbonyl sulphide and thiols from natural gas--the output is "sweetened" gas which is then piped into the home; though a small amount of a thiol is left behind to make the gas detectable by odour)--and pipe the sour gas (btw, often the sulphur-containing gases will be ABOVE MAXIMUM detectable concentrations in these) DIRECTLY into homes to burn.

[daisy16 0]

Gupt,

And to think, we've spent the last 20+ years and billions of dollars taking the sulphur out of fossil fuels and fossil fuel emissions. Now we've got to find ways to put it back.

Yodrak

One way to curb global warming is to purposely shoot sulfur into the atmosphere, a scientists suggested today.

The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. It also releases sulfur that cools the planet by reflecting solar radiation away from Earth.

Hot Topic

Most researchers say the warming effect has been winning in recent decades.

Injecting sulfur into the second atmospheric layer closest to Earth would reflect more sunlight back to space and offset greenhouse gas warming, according to Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego.

Crutzen suggests carrying sulfur into the atmosphere via balloons and using artillery guns to release it, where the particles would stay for up to two years. The results could be seen in six months.

Nature does something like this naturally.

When Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in1991, millions of tons of sulfur was injected into the atmosphere, enhancing reflectivity and cooling the Earth's surface by an average of 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit in the year following the eruption.

"Given the grossly disappointing international political response to the required greenhouse gas emissions, ... research on the feasibility and environmental consequences of climate engineering of the kind presented in this paper, which might need to be deployed in future, should not be tabooed," Crutzen said.

This proposal is detailed in the August issue of the journal Climatic Change.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/060...ect_sulfur.html

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

How about we just get rid of all the people that believe in global warming?

Ah, the White House strategery. Quit believing in it and it'll go away. Brilliant indeed!

[mawilson 2,133]

How about we just get rid of all the people that believe in global warming? That way they die and we get rid of all that body heat, which should lower the temp. of the earthy, PLUS it helps over-population! I'm frickin BRILLIANT.

LOL