Russian Scientist Suggests Burning Sulfur in Stratosphere to Fight Global Warming Created: 30.11.2005 16:56 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:56 MSK
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Renowned Russian scientist Yuri Israel, the head of the Global Climate and Ecology Institute, has written in a letter to President Putin that global warming requires immediate action and suggests burning thousands of tons of sulfur in the stratosphere as a remedy.
The Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily published an interview with Israel on Wednesday in which he described his plan to counter global warming and called upon Russian authorities to consider it. The scientist says his plan is based on the idea of putting aerosols into the atmosphere at an altitude of 12-20 kilometers to create a reflective layer that would lower the heating effect of solar radiation. Israel claims that the plan could start having an effect within three years.
“In order to lower the temperature of the Earth by 1-2 degrees we need to pump about 600,000 tons of aerosol particles. To do that, we need to burn from 100-200,000 tons of sulfur. And we do not have to burn the sulfur there, we can simply use sulfur-rich aircraft fuel.” The Russian scientist said.
Israel said that his method was ecologically safe because it would result in relatively little pollution — only 0.2 milligrams of sulfur per square meter per year would return to the Earth’s surface and the amount of sulfur registered in natural precipitation is currently about 1000 times higher.
“If humanity understands that catastrophic global warming is starting, we can implement our project in just two or three years. The most important thing is that we really will be able to control the climate,” the scientist said.
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Poster Comment:
gee, what an idea! lets start doing it now, then we won't be liars to the citizens.... oh, and then, gee, i guess they aren't contrails after all. they lied to us again, MAN!