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| Global Warming: Giant shields to the rescue |
| 2004-01-13 |
| Pravda, via www.fark.com EFL Scientists suggest building a massive shield in space, which would absorb excess amount of solar rays, stabilize climate and save the entire human kind of the most dangerous threat such as Global Warming. I’m wondering if Christopher Lambert will be starring in this one as well... According to the scientists’ plans, hundreds and thousands of metal "rubbish" will be dumped in the upper atmospheric layers. In addition, billions of tiny metal balls will serve as a special barrier preventing rays of the Earth’s closest star from reaching our planet, informs The Observer. Just what we need, more space junk. Another idea: Millions of metal-covered air balloons under a great pressure filled with helium will be launched to the stratosphere (35,000 feet). They will be able to stay there for five years. Afterward, they will simply fall and will be in need of replacement. These people really have it in for NORAD, don’t they? Scientists from the National laboratory of Lawrence Livermore in California who suggested the scheme, claim that such temperature decrease will also benefit crops, since damaging solar rays will be liquidated. Ah, THERE’S the Kalifornia connection! I don’t know if this article was any less kooky before the Russian translators got ahold of it... |
| Posted by:therien |
| #16 I sometimes wonder if our entire "Scientific Establishment" is on a sustained 'high' from illegal substances. They continue to fight a battle they've already lost, making themselves look utterly foolish in the process. Of course, the "information" industry - with the obvious exception of the Internet - aids and abets these losers, regardless of how stupid their crackpot theories are. The Sun controls the earthly thermostat, and it's turning up the heat a bit. In another 200 or so years, the heat will probably be turned down a bit, and we'll have frost in Vidalia every winter. Likewise probably as far south as Miami. Better get out all those faux furs, Miamians - you will need them. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-1-14 12:51:09 AM |
| #15 I expect that the either a shield or balloons would be destroyed post haste by Siberian cosmonauts hoping to grow their own ganga crop. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-1-13 9:56:22 PM |
| #14 Shipman: Ha ! That's a bumper sticker if I ever saw one: "Intense cold is an early warning of global warming. Send money." |
| Posted by: Carl in NH 2004-1-13 9:32:45 PM |
| #13 Laugh Yankee dogs, but the precious fields of Vidalia are threatened by a virus. If it comes to it... the GA Dept. of Natural Happiness will ban all out of state shipments of onions except to their close friends in North Florida., and you suckers will be left holding an empty panty hose. Vidalia will not Fall. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-13 8:27:55 PM |
| #12 I forsee giant mylar balloons in geo-synchronous orbit, freezing out Dear Leaders, Grand Muftis, and Pak tribal areas -- another "cold war"! |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-1-13 7:45:18 PM |
| #11 Methinks Shipman is spending too much time at Outback. Drinking them 24oz beers, apparently. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-1-13 7:45:01 PM |
| #10 I heard that there was supposed to be some big symposium on the menace of Global Warming in Salem, Oregon the other night but they had to cancel it since no could get there due to the ICE STORM. True story. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-1-13 7:39:44 PM |
| #9 Methinks Shipman is spending too much time at Outback. |
| Posted by: john 2004-1-13 7:37:52 PM |
| #8 Morons... intense cold where you live is an early warning of global warming. Send money. Me and Jimmuh are working on the theory of Nuclear Spring Time and it's effect on Mr. Peanut. Ptah! Danger! Danger! Onion crop in threatened by virus? We should remind AQ that most PeaceKeeper fields require 3 lbs. Vidalia onions a week else, the passive action link fails and the go code is automatic. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-13 7:21:41 PM |
| #7 Cheer up, Carl in N.H.- looks like you're in for a MAJOR influx of hot air once the Iowa caucuses are done. As an added bonus, your fields will also be fertilized with a huge load of fresh manure. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-1-13 7:00:51 PM |
| #6 If these guys would just STFU it would get noticably cooler roght off the bat..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-1-13 6:43:44 PM |
| #5 Maybe someone picked up on this earlier and I missed it: last week I heard that Harvard - of all places - was about to publish a study that debunks the whole global warming theory. The study says(?)that the baseline being used is too recent and doesn't look far enough back. Anyone have any details? |
| Posted by: OldeForce 2004-1-13 6:40:28 PM |
| #4 For those who care about us up in the cold dark northeast, we had a 2-day tropical spell (low to mid-30s). From tonight, we are expected to be back down to subzero temperatures. So, when will this friggin' global warming thing finally kick in, fergawdsake ? |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2004-1-13 6:04:13 PM |
| #3 4thInfVet - No need to remind me, thanks... :-) |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-1-13 5:59:25 PM |
| #2 4thInfVet - That's obviously proof of global cooling. Oh, the horror! Well, if Gorebot can go to California during a hot spell a couple of summers ago and say that record heat in California was proof of global warming, then record cold in another state must be proof of global cooling, right? After all, Gore (the divinity school flunk-out) must know a lot about the environment - he wrote a book, didn't he? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-1-13 5:44:00 PM |
| #1 Ahh hahh, the great bugaboo of our time, GLOBAL WARMING! Just tell the people in Boston that it's getting warmer. I understand next Thursday they might get above freezing again. :P |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-1-13 4:50:42 PM |