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The new book Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner tells two quick, cheap ways to end global warming. I saw the authors interviewed in person at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco and on various TV shows.

Garden hose to the sky and puffy clouds solutions

According to the results of what I call an unethical experiment, we can lower the temperature of the earth by 1 degree fahrenheit, the amount by which it heated up during the entire 20th century, by putting sulfur dioxide into the high atmosphere.

An unethical experiment is one that no ethical human would have initiated, but which gets initiated accidentally or by nature. For example, much of what we knew about the brain before World War II came from study of persons who survived severe brain injuries, like a javelin that accidentally went through their head. Doctors could see the part of the brain the javelin went through and test the person in question to see how their brain function had changed. Another is identical twins being separated at birth which helps identify human characteristics that stem from DNA versus how you were raised.

In the case of chapter 5 of Superfreakonomics, the unethical experiment was the eruption of volcanoes. We know that after big volcano eruptions, the earth cools. We also know it’s because volcano eruptions hurl sulfur dioxide into the high atmosphere. The sulfur dioxide reflects about 1% of the sun’s heat rays away from earth.

Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, says we can artificially create the volcano cooling by putting an 18-mile long long “garden hose” at the north and south poles that goes straight up to the stratosphere and pumps liquefied sulfur dioxide into the high altitude air. Yes, sulfur dioxide causes acid rain. But the amount coming out of the “garden hose” would be a tiny fraction of one percent of the amount normally produced by natural and man-made sources. The difference is getting it up into the stratosphere rather than the troposphere, the layer at the earth’s surface.

Puffy white clouds

Clouds also reflect the sun’s heat away from earth, thereby lowering earth’s temperature. There’s plenty of data on that unethical experiment, too.

Can humans make more clouds? Sure. Ever seen the contrails of a jet? The grounding of most U.S. jets after 9/11 for just three days raised the earth’s temperature a measurable amount by reducing the contrails.

The cheaper way to make clouds is to spray salt water out in the middle of the oceans a few yards up in the air. It then rises on its own up to cloud level. Myhrvold proposes doing that with a fleet of wind-powered boats that would cost a few billion total.

Reaction of the green movement

Al Gore’s reducing-carbon solution is questionable as to its effectiveness. Plus it would take hundreds of years to work. Carbon dioxide is a tiny fraction of one percent of the atmosphere. Myhrvold’s approaches are proven and would work immediately. Plus, they cost next to nothing compared to cap and trade taxes.

So the stop-global-warming people are thrilled with Myhrvold and Superfreakonomics, right?

Au contraire. They reacted with green road rage. Levitt discussed it extensively at the Fairmont.

Why? I thought they wanted to save the planet?

Apparently not. What they want is a way to jerk capitalists around. They hate the garden hoses to the sky and boats that make puffy clouds solutions because they do not let them jerk capitalists around for 400 years.

OOgo Chavez gets biggest applause at Copenhagen ‘climate change’ summit

At the 12/09 Copenhagen U.N. Climate Change Summit, Hugo Chavez, the nutty quasi dictator of Venezuela got huge applause. What new scientific data did he provide? Why was he even there at all?

He said the process in Copenhagen was “not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn’t that the reality of our world, the world is really an imperial dictatorship…down with imperial dictatorships.” [Rousing round of applause]

[There was a] “silent and terrible ghost in the room” [a ghost called capitalism] [even louder applause]

“our revolution seeks to help all people…socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that’s the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell....let’s fight against capitalism and make it obey us.” [standing ovation]

The green movement is the red movement in disguise

Like I said, the green movement is nothing but the red movement in disguise. If you pay attention, the truth leaks out in unguarded moments—especially when they gather in large groups and feed off each other. The anti-climate change movement is supposed to be scientific. So how come its conference looks, indoors and out, like the Socialists Workers Party Convention?

Because it is.

Nathan Myhrvold, a respected scientist, has come up with cheap instant solutions to the alleged problem. So why aren’t the global hot air people thrilled to death? Why aren’t they at least calling for trying his solutions to see if they work?

Because they have no interest in the physical planet. They are only interest in controlling the planet politically.

Obama’s stash

Obama promised the Copenhagen meeting $100 billion to help poor countries cut their emissions.

Where’s he gonna get that? His stash?

The green movement is really the red movement in disguise by John T. Reed