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The Environment / Global Warming - Preventing Ice Melt
« on: 08/07/2005 08:12:04 »
Probably a crazy idea, but...
In busy parts of the sky aircraft vapour trails spread out and merge together resulting in less sunlight striking the ground beneath them.
If we flew aircraft, maybe specially adapted to increase the volume and reflectivity of their vapour trails, over the vulnerable Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, laying down a sort of 21st century parasol above them, would this slow the rate of melting?
This reflective sheen of water vapour would probably only need to be in place during the summer months and then only during the daytime, being allowed to dissipate at night so that it did not inhibit heat radiation from the ice at night.
Mike Harding Roberts
http://www.bagley123.wanadoo.co.uk/global-warming.htm
In busy parts of the sky aircraft vapour trails spread out and merge together resulting in less sunlight striking the ground beneath them.
If we flew aircraft, maybe specially adapted to increase the volume and reflectivity of their vapour trails, over the vulnerable Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, laying down a sort of 21st century parasol above them, would this slow the rate of melting?
This reflective sheen of water vapour would probably only need to be in place during the summer months and then only during the daytime, being allowed to dissipate at night so that it did not inhibit heat radiation from the ice at night.
Mike Harding Roberts
http://www.bagley123.wanadoo.co.uk/global-warming.htm