Could we reverse global warming by building a big airconditioner?

Question

if we build millions of airconditioners each one the size of a ten story building and turn them all on at once and set them on the coolest setting and let them run around the clock, how long would it take to cool the earth by 1 degree celcius?

Answer 1

Yes, we could put Al Gore in that and you. If you believe in Global Warming then  you should just put an end to it now.

Just think about what you asked. How would these be powered? Would not the power required to run these air conditioners contribute more to Global Warming?

Dude, when are you going to run for political office? I want to vote for a near sited person as you for President.

Answer 2

no the joke is dead. air-conditioners are just "heat pumps" so we would actually warm the world.

Answer 3

That joke just isn't as funny the 100th time.

Answer 4

lol i dont think that would be poossssiibbble

Coz  you're tlaking about freezing the antartica again.

while humans will be trying to keep every thing on the houses from blowing away while trying to keep warm.

Answer 5

In some corners it is all ready being done . In that a new ice age is starting .

Answer 6

Your joking, right! No, and we shouldn't have to, instead we should watch the amount of emissions we release into the air. People need to care less about money! When the Earth is totally destroyed money really doesn't count for anything!

Answer 7

It would work if they were powered by a carbon neutral source and you found a way to vent the heat from the machines to space.

Answer 8

not to worry, global warming exists only in the globally warmed minds that have to much emotion invested in Al Gore to cool down. Its just so much hot air , and has been thoroughly and scientifically debunked, even the guy who first thought it existed, a guy by the name of Revelle , found it to be false , and Mr Gore did everything in his power to stop the release of his papers proving that to be so

He was one of the worlds foremost oceanographers , and Gore studied under him in the 60s

Answer 9

Why do people keep going on about Al Gore (like Angie, above) as if he started the climate change debate?

Why is the opinion of this Revelle more important than the entire IPCC? Why would an oceanographer know more than climate scientists?

Why haven't you given any sources for your information? If you give me a source, complete with responses from the scientific community that supports your hypothesis, I will be willing to change my mind. Until then I will just think you are a bit crazy.

Answer 10

this sounds funny......:-P

Answer 11

What would they use for power?  Electricity?  Where does the electricity come from?  Power plants.  What do most power plants burn to generate electricity?  Fossil fuels.  See where this is going?

Answer 12

Sorry but it takes more energy to make the air conditioner operate than any cooling you could get, but keep trying. Or you could check out CoolingEarth.org.

Today here is what we know:  many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more destruction.  Blacktop (roads and parking lots), buildings, air pollution (causes lung and other diseases), deforestation, duststorms (which increase hurricanes and cyclones and cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's), solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels) are human problems we need to fix to keep life on earth sustainable! The federal government needs to adopt a pollution surcharge to balance the field and advance new technologies. We must pay the real price of oil (petrochemicals) including global warming, cleanup and for health effects. But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with little evidence! The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes. But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and they form clouds cooling earth but causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). But humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms. The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small ones all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and has not even started).

President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected.

That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight where you can learn more about earth, the atmosphere, and how to sustain life on earth’s surface.

Answer 13

In theory your suggestion is possible. In fact, it is not. Synchronization alone would make it impossible to accomplish.

Besides when lowering the temperature even 1 degree could bring destructive changes which might be worst than what the warming is causing. The best theory to follow in global warming is: Leave it alone. Change is inevitable. Deal with it. By the time the total effects take place you and I will be history. This phase of the planet must pass so live the best you can while you're here.

Answer 14

Building millions of airconditioners, as you propose, will be a very costly affair and may 'run out of gas' even before it sees the day - meaning practically impossible.

A much better way is for the full-of-humanity to turn Stewards and begin to serve Earth like never before!

It is the only practical solution.

If you want to know more, then contact me.