Is This The Last Barrier to a Climate Collapse?
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Dr. Tim Flannery, an Australian global warming activist, mammalogist and palaeontologist has proposed a radical solution to slow down global warming, which in his words is the last barrier to a climate collapse, according to The Age.
Flannery say's climate change is happening so quickly that mankind may need to pump sulphur into the upper atmosphere in order to survive.
His technique places sulphur gas into the earth's stratosphere to block out more of the sun's rays. How would this be done? Sulphur would be added to jet fuel and dispersed in the stratosphere. When should this happen? Flannery says we may need to be doing this in five years time. This process would also cause the sky to change color. But what color? Yellow?
According to Flannery, the world was much more susceptible to greenhouse gas emissions that had been thought eight years ago.
"Regardless of what happened to emissions in the future, there was already far too much greenhouse gas in the atmosphere," he said. "Cutting emissions was not enough. Mankind now has to take greenhouse gases out of the air," he added. In particular, carbon should be taken out of the air and converted into charcoal, then plowed into farmers' fields.
Here is a link to a Comedy Central interview of Dr. Flannery by the one and only Stephen Colbert from a couple of years ago. By the way, David Flannery was named Australian of the year for 2007.
