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originally posted by: ParanoidAmerican
a reply to: network dude
Or a form of geo-engineering was occurring prior to the term being coined.
Well Randyvs you may feel as I do if you saw to military jets come to a small coastal town and one fly N/S one E/W and make a huge grid as far as the eye can see in all directions and then leave. The town is at the corner there OR/CA of the map in the OP.
Anyone who would poison the air they themselves must
breathe. Won't be out of the rubber room long enough
to do so. And they most likely won't have the smartz to fly
a plane any way.
originally posted by: Char-Lee
There are many many mysterious changes going on planet earth, no reson at all they could not know something and been trying to ..fix...something we know nothing about.
originally posted by: ParanoidAmerican
I just think a vary small portion of what is seen are things such as cloud seeding being mistakenly taken as something else. Something like this Malaysian Cloud Seeding image that has been around since 2005...
Okay, this is what happens when someone has made zero attempt to understand how climate and weather works and then looks at a satellite image to interpret it.
originally posted by: tsurfer2000h
And yet you still think cloudseeding is geoengineering...that leaves me baffled as to how you come to this conclusion.
Nevertheless: The short lifetime of aerosols, the short response time of clouds to aerosol perturbations, the fact that the perturbation is to existing components of the natural system, the strong influence on climate, cost --> make cloud seeding interesting to consider as a means to geo-engineering
Recent research indicates that by seeding cirrus clouds with particles that promote ice nucleation, their lifetimes and coverage could be reduced. We have tested this hypothesis in a global climate model with a state-of-the-art representation of cirrus clouds and find that cirrus cloud seeding has the potential to cancel the entire warming caused by human activity from pre-industrial times to present day.
Enhanced cloud coverage would be accomplished by artificially increasing the concentration of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). Proposals for this strategy typically target the low-level marine stratocumulus clouds that frequently lie off the upwind coast of most continents.
General circulation model computations using a fully coupled ocean–atmosphere model indicate that increasing cloud reflectivity by seeding maritime boundary layer clouds with particles made from seawater may compensate for some of the effects on climate of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. The chosen seeding strategy (one of many possible scenarios) can restore global averages of temperature, precipitation and sea ice to present day values, but not simultaneously.
originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: pianopraze
You are against cloud seeding? Based on what fear? Honest question.
Because he's right. Cloud seeding is part of geoengineering.