Making the sky purple? Is this guy crackers?

Question

Tim Flannery, climate change activist says that pumping sulphur into the atmosphere(and making the sky purple) will help to reduce global warming by cutting down on the suns effect to warm the planet.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/080519/21/16x6p.html

I don't believe that tinkering with nature is a good thing as we as humans have made so many mistakes already.

Do you think that pumping sulphur into the atmosphere would work or not and what other possible effects might there be from having sulphur in the atmosphere?

Thoughts?

Answer 1

What a flippen r****d.

Answer 2

sulfur smells icky

Answer 3

The scientists that study this stuff noticed that after a very large volcanoic eruption pumped lots of ash into the atmosphere, the climate cooled.  Some think that we can re create this effect using sulphur.  It will reflect some of the suns energy back out into space before it gets a chance to heat the atmosphere.  

I am inclined to agree with you that we should leave well enough alone.  But I feel the cost of doing nothing will be far greater.  We must do something soon.  Reduce the amount of energy you consume any way you can.

Answer 4

This is not really practical, since sulfur in the atmosphere will turn into sulfuric acid, which has hazards of its own.

It would be far more practical to cut down the amount of sunlight reaching our atmosphere by using aluminum chaff between the sun and the earth. However, there are hazards to this, also.

Tim Flannery would be better advised to go plant trees and vegetables in the Sahara Desert than to use his scheme.

Regards,

Dan

Answer 5

I don't know if that'll work, but I have seen purple sky

It actually looks cool...

Answer 6

LOL, that idiot obviously forgot about the acid rain that was melting peoples eyes and killing all species on the planet.

It is true, 99% of the environmentalist are insane, or just nuts.

Answer 7

He must be one of those people who want to reduce Earth population down to 200 million

Answer 8

Tim Flannery is not an idiot.

What he saw years ago, before all this awareness about global warming, was far ahead of all other so called scientists. I saw a TV clip of his research trip along the Murray river in a dinghy over many days . . . to verify some of his scientific observations. He knows what he is talking about.

Unfortunately, the global warming has become runaway and even if we wanted, there is little we can do.

The consequences are already hitting us. Look at the food production across the world, and farming yields having dropped drastically.

If the warming continues unchecked, we can not even predict what more disasters will happen. Some major changes to our eco-system will trigger others, like a domino effect.

Sulphur release in atmosphere may well be harmful.

The question is to balance the harm against other likely far more deadly outcome of global warming !