Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Crazy Ideas

Fox News has posted an article detailed some outlandish ideas on how to solve the problem of global warming. The ideas are pretty outlandish and if the situations worsens these may need to be the measures we take to bail us out of the problem.

One solutions which is already being carried out is pouring iron dust into the sea. This will in turn grow algae which will drink up algae from the atmosphere. It seems pretty staright forward and simple however it's real easy for things to get out of hand and the large amounts of algae are of course going to have a negaitive impact on surrounding eco life.

A dangerous solution is the manmade volcano. By releasing sulfer into the air you create a cloud which reflects sunlight. Volcanoes have erupted before and have proven this is possible however its a dangerous solution and the volcano wouldnt do anything about the green house gases already trapped on earth.

Probably the craziest idea of them all is solar umbrellas. Similar concept to the manmade volcano, we fly millions of umbrellas or discs into space and let them block off the sun thus cooling our temperatures down. Still wouldn't d anything about our greenhouse gases but it would cool our earts down and slow the melting of the polar ice caps.

These are solutions which are pretty radical but I feel that with the way we treat climate change, soon we'll need a radical solutions to a problem which is constantly ignored.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

These ideas seem to be too radical to be employed. Releasing sulfer into the air and placing algae in the oceans would only place a bandaid over a wound that needs better healing.