Looks like the cover pic of a 1940’s Popular Science Magazine.
The Copenhagen Consensus Centre—a respected European think tank which used to be skeptic on climate change—is now advising that we should spend $9 billion in building 1900 cloud-generating ships like the one above. Why? To cool down Earth:
When you spray saltwater into the air, you create nuclei that cloud condenses around, creating bigger and whiter clouds, thus bouncing more sunlight back into space.
That’s what David Young, a member of the panel that created the report, says. The fully automated vessels will cross the oceans absorbing water and spraying it into the skies. They say this will help the formation of big, whiter clouds, which will make the sun light bounce, lowering temperatures.
Found by Dylan Newstead.
Looks like a toy.
Putt-Putt, Toot-Toot
No, this isn’t an April Fools day joke.
To fight global warming, all we have to do is put 2,000 of these robot-controlled ships into the ocean.
It’s a real bargain as well. They would cost $9 billion (£5.3 billion) to test and launch within 25 years.
Yup, the global warming alarmists are certifiable.
Who lets these idiots out of their padded cells and stylishly long-sleeved canvas jackets?
Let me take the Ted Kennedy approach to ocean windmills.
We can’t let 2,000 of these traveling monsters just roam around the ocean seas. Think of all the migratory birds that might be hurt by those huge towers.
We must have an multi-national in-depth 20-year environmental impact study.
…only downside is they’re powered by filthy, filthy coal and pollute more than any vehicle conceived by man. Oh well, we’ll just have to buy a few more.
Won’t these undermine Bill Gates’ hurricane killers?
what happens with it starts raining saltwater contaminated rain somewhere?
I’m willing to bet that this is a bad idea. So the planet will be full of clouds. As a result there will be less light, greenhouse gases will be trapped in and the planet will get hotter. So a hotter planet, less sunlight and less plants will grow. With less plants you’ll have less oxygen and more carbon dioxide. ect…ect. Just look at Venus for an example of this effect.
So if they want to destroy the planet….just wait about a thousand years or so when the magnetic field of the planet is “suppose” to wind down and the planet is unable to support life anymore. That’s 9 billion cheeper! 🙂
#4 – theIgnorantSteveO – …only downside is they’re powered by filthy, filthy coal and pollute more than any vehicle conceived by man.
Is that right? If you go to the source, it says “A wind-powered fleet of nearly 2,000 ships…”
Only $9 billion? That’s cheap.
Maybe the operators of these ships would get climate credits they could then sell to offset the operation of the fleet. Score!
If ever there was a project that the “law of unintended consequences” would surely apply, it is this one.
IS it just me or does it look like this thing would capsize the first time there was a cross wind more than 10 knots?
Yes, Haris: It’s a lovely, cheap solution to a problem that may vert well not exist. So, if the sun IS going into a cooling mode at the same time we launch this cloud-making fleet … well, we’ll likely be able to skate to Europe!
#13 – pedro
Getting power from the wind is cleaner than getting it from coal. I know… it was too hard for you to figure out.
Trial lawyers will love this. Every flood everywhere will be blamed on these, putting all that moisture in the atmosphere. Its got to come down somewhere. No more “act of God”, all weather injuries can be blamed on the ships.
Wow, the “environmentalist whackos” are living up to their name.
At $9 billion for 1900 ships, that comes to $4,736,842 a ship. Of course, they will require regular maintenance by union shipbuilders, a fleet of government manned recovery & service ships, and a monitoring & control center that will have to be manned 24/7 by AFL-CIO bureaucrats.
What a colossal boondoggle. This just proves man’s amazing conceit in thinking that we can actually control the weather and global climate. Or is it really just a new way to grow the list of government employees?
I wonder if your soon-to-be enacted Cap-and-Trade taxes will be wasted on this pipe dream.
Just a thought, won’t making more clouds cause more rain, and thus a greater potential for flooding, blizzards, etc?
I bet all these ships would be built in Denmark. Talk about stimulus.
I don’t know enough about the science, and it appears most of the comments above know nothing. This is something that could be feasible and relatively inexpensive.
If they work, great. They can be moderated by the number of ships in use at any one time.
I wonder how they will get the moisture into the higher atmosphere in order to make clouds and not rain?
Don’t be screw’n with Mother Nature, or you’ll be tore-up from the floor-up
stupid ass fools that believe that they can fuck with mother nature.
When the cruise ship industry goes bankrupt, the UNITED STATES can bail them out and retrofit each vessel with these ingenious devices.
Human caused Global Warming, oops I forgot it’s now referred to as Climate Change because the Earth is actually cooling and the Statist don’t want to be on the wrong side of the issue, is BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT just like these ships!
All the negative comments: consider how we been playin wid mudda Nature for the last 300 years pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.
What do you think Mother Nature thinks of that?
So, all the repugs: typical naysaying do nothing response. Don’t know what you are talking about, but against it. Anti Science etc.
THE MATH:
Nine billion divided by 1900. 4.7 million dollars per ship. And you can’t get 4.7 million bucks together to build one and show us that it works?
Less talk, less blue sky. Show me.
Go on line and do a Google search on climate trends and see what you find. According to the graph I looked at the last time something like this came up the planet has been cooling off for the last few years. I believe this is supposed to be the coolest year in the last 60 years. This raises the question of what exactly are we trying for; a new ice age?
#25–do-ill==I believe we are in a cooling dip on a long upward heating trend. “Never Heard” of setting a 60 year cold snap record.
Care to share?
I’ll stick to the advice of energy secretary Steven Chu:
If a plan to lower global warming costs more and/or is less effective than painting everyone’s roof’s white, then it is not worth doing.
Sounds like something I heard late at night on Coast to Coast – art bell
Drive me to the moon
Drive me home
Its getting crowded on planet earth
Hello Bobbo!
The global cooling “climate change” mess only gets worse. No one can agree on anything anymore. Even the data can be taken both ways.
You will probably like these links.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14504
http://npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025
It’s enough to drive one mad.
And if that doesn’t make you think, this probably will.
http://tinyurl.com/kmf65p
We are getting closer and closer to irrefutably finding that C02 does not cause climate change.
The hidden story about the current ‘earth cooling’ instead of ‘global warming’, with charts to show it:
youtube.com/watch?v=TNbjqSyWdcs