By Paul Homewood
h/t Phil Bratby/Robin Guenier
It is difficult to keep up with the incessant climate propaganda from the BBC at the moment!
Scientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research centre to develop new ways to repair the Earth’s climate.
It will investigate radical approaches such as refreezing the Earth’s poles and removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
The centre is being created because of fears that current approaches will not on their own stop dangerous and irreversible damage to the planet.
The initiative is the first of its kind in the world and could lead to dramatic reductions in carbon emissions.
The initiative is co-ordinated by the government’s former chief scientific adviser, Prof Sir David King.
"What we do over the next 10 years will determine the future of humanity for the next 10,000 years. There is no major centre in the world that would be focused on this one big issue," he told BBC News.
Some of the approaches described by Sir David are often known collectively as geoengineering….
One of the most promising ideas for refreezing the poles is to "brighten" the clouds above them.
The idea is to pump seawater up to tall masts on uncrewed ships through very fine nozzles.
This produces tiny particles of salt which are injected into the clouds, which makes them more widespread and reflective, and so cool the areas below them.
Such ideas have many potential downsides and may prove to be unfeasible.
But Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, said that they should be properly assessed to see if the downsides can be overcome, because he believes that reduction of CO2 emissions on its own won’t be enough.
"If we reduce our emissions all we are doing is making the global climate warmer a bit more slowly. That is no good because it’s already too warm and we have already got too much CO2 in the atmosphere," Prof Wadhams said.
"So climate repair can actually take it out of the atmosphere. We can get the level down below what it is now and actually cool the climate bringing it back to what it was before global warming," he added.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48069663
Quite what that image of a drought has to do with any of this is a mystery.
As for Wadhams and King, they should not be allowed anywhere near positions of influence, with their track records.
Wadhams seems to think it is a good idea to return the climate to the Little Ice Age. He is so obsessed with Arctic sea ice that he does not seem worried that millions could die of starvation as a result.
As for refreezing the poles, let’s hope that they are not successful. Once sea ice starts expanding, they may not be able to stop it. Certainly a bit more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere won’t.
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