Scientists: Pollution could combat global warming

[survivor999]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Air pollution may be just the thing to fight global warming, some scientists say.

Prominent scientists, among them a Nobel laureate, said a layer of pollution deliberately spewed into the atmosphere could act as a "shade" from the sun's rays and help cool the planet.

Reaction to the proposal here at the annual U.N. conference on climate change is a mix of caution, curiosity and some resignation to such "massive and drastic" operations, as the chief U.N. climatologist describes them.

The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who first made the proposal is himself "not enthusiastic about it."

"It was meant to startle the policymakers," said Paul J. Crutzen, of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. "If they don't take action much more strongly than they have in the past, then in the end we have to do experiments like this."

Serious people are taking Crutzen's idea seriously. This weekend at Moffett Field, California, NASA's Ames Research Center hosts a closed-door, high-level workshop on the global haze proposal and other "geoengineering" ideas for fending off climate change.

In Nairobi, meanwhile, hundreds of delegates were wrapping up a two-week conference expected to only slowly advance efforts to rein in greenhouse gases blamed for much of the 0.6-degree-Celsius (1-degree-Fahrenheit) rise in global temperatures in the past century.

More: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/11/16/smog.warming.ap/index.html

[survivor999]

1. Ain't this something ?

May I suggest another solution? Collective suicide. That may work too.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. sheltered by monoxide. yup. thats the answer.

:rofl: if only it wasnt so sad

[demnan]

3. Sure

we have plenty of it. Might work. We don't have to breathe anyway.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

4. Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Yes, I've heard this kind of argument before. Thank you, Homer Simpson.

[AlGore-08.com]

5. Wow... the Nobel prize winner who first made the proposal is "not enthusiastic about it"

I think that says it all...