An idea to stop global warming

[Contra]

Last night, while zapping through the news channels to find out more details about Brittany Murphy's death, there was this interview to a man that was giving an idea to stop global warming.
That idea consists of a hose that pumps sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, and that would help erradicate global warming.

Anybody heard about it? What are your thoughts?

[mirr0rz]

I haven't heard about that, no. But I'm also what would be considered a 'skeptic' of global warming. Not the actual rising temperature, that would be ludicrous, but the causes listed by the media and Al Gore (inventor of the internet and the environment). Volcanoes put out 3x as much Carbon Dioxide as humans ever have, as do forest fires. I have also seen a graph done up by John Coleman, creator of The Weather Channel, that showed a strong correlation between sunspots and average global temperature. I've also heard of the Little Ice Age, a cooling trend that we are now coming out of that has been present for the last several hundred years. Before the Little Ice Age there was a Medieval Warm Period which lasted for a few hundred years and had average global temperatures ~3 degrees higher than they are now. I also noted that 1998 is the hottest year on record. That was 12 years ago!

I've also noted that people tend to predict the end of the world. Particularly starting with John Miller in 1843. He stated that his Biblical studies had predicted the end of the world then. Perhaps you noticed, he was wrong. That's what I think has contributed to this global warming business as well. People have been predicting the end of the world for a while. There was also in the 80's some people predicting the end because of Israel. I suspect this is just the most recent fad.

Sorry for the tangent, but that sounds like an extremely expensive idea. I don't see how we could engineer such a device with regard to realistic economic means. Then there's the problem of powering it and supplying it with Sulfer Dioxide.

[CaptainObvious]

Yeah, let's just bathe in acid rain, sounds like a good idea.

[Gumleaf]

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