News flash! Pollution can prevent global warming!

[mrhnau]

Guess what! Now I suppose we should start polluting! After decades of being made to feel guilty about those horrible gas guzzling vehicles and those horrible companies that produce pollution, now the idea is raised that pollution may spark global cooling! Snippets from the article:

Air pollution may be just the thing to fight global warming, some scientists say.

Prominent scientists, among them a Nobel laureate, said a layer of pollution deliberately spewed into the atmosphere could act as a "shade" from the sun's rays and help cool the planet.

The Dutch climatologist, awarded a 1995 Nobel in chemistry for his work uncovering the threat to Earth's atmospheric ozone layer, suggested that balloons bearing heavy guns be used to carry sulfates high aloft and fire them into the stratosphere.

Clearly more research is needed, and it seems to cause nasty things like acid rain, but its an interesting concept... who would have thunk?

 

[michaeledward]

yeah, and if we murder 3/4 of the planet's population, that'll help too.

 

[mrhnau]

yeah, and if we murder 3/4 of the planet's population, that'll help too.

Nah, the acid rain and pollution of the water will do that for us.

 

[terryl965]

yeah, and if we murder 3/4 of the planet's population, that'll help too.

Well actually it would need to be about 90%, but I would like to be in the 10% that can stay

 

[bushidomartialarts]

maybe a good world war is what we need.

wait...aren't we already working on that?