Thursday March 29th… Dear Diary. The main purpose of this ongoing post will be to track United States extreme or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I’ll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials)😊. Here is today’s main climate change related topic:
A Salty Solution?
Increasingly I and other climate scientists come across new tech solutions to the global warming problem, which have great intentions, but just aren’t great panaceas. In my book the best solutions are A) mitigation or turning to green energy and infrastructure including energy efficiency ASAP and in order to reduce the level of CO2 in the air B) planting trees:
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Quoting from the article: Sprinkling large amounts of salt into the atmosphere could stave off climate change, a group of researchers has proposed.
They’ve suggested that, because salt is highly reflective, it could potentially reflect sunlight back into outer space, helping to cool the Earth, they wrote in a report presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas on March 21.
But other climate scientists aren’t so sure. This idea falls into the category of geoengineering — a deliberate, large-scale attempt to change the environment as a means to counteract climate change. [Top 10 Craziest Environmental Ideas]
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Sprinkling large amounts of salt into the atmosphere could stave off climate change, a group of researchers has proposed.
They’ve suggested that, because salt is highly reflective, it could potentially reflect sunlight back into outer space, helping to cool the Earth, they wrote in a report presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas on March 21.
But other climate scientists aren’t so sure. This idea falls into the category of geoengineering — a deliberate, large-scale attempt to change the environment as a means to counteract climate change. [Top 10 Craziest Environmental Ideas]
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Quoting from this ten year old article:
Q: Capturing CO2 is an interesting idea, but plants and trees leave behind freshwater and oxygen instead of some undesirable waste product. Is there any research being done on mimicking the process of photosynthesis? Or perhaps in the genetic engineering of plants/trees, which have an accelerated photosynthesis cycle? C. Tam, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lackner: There is research in such fields, but it is worth pointing out that all the plants and trees in the world are not enough to absorb all the carbon that people have released and are expected to release over the next 100 years. The world has consumed 300 billion tons of carbon since the beginning of the industrial revolution and is consuming seven billion tons per year today. The entire biomass on Earth amounts to 600 billion tons. Forty years from now we would have to have doubled the standing biomass in order to absorb all the CO2that will have been emitted by then. I doubt that we can double the total biomass without severe ecological consequences. This is why carbon capture and storage is one important tool in our toolbox.
Robert Fanney @robertscribbler
45.2C at Chhor
this 29 March 2018 is a new national monthly record high temperature for #Pakistan ! Highest temperature ever in March in the country.
Previous record : 45.0C on 28 March 1991, also at Chhor.
