D.I.Y Planet Cooling

[Little Bang]

Mich, I was not advocating genoside but I am suggesting that all humans on this planet be allowed only one child until we get the population down to a level that will allow the earth to clean up the pollution that we produce.

[Boerseun]

Hey - here's a quick 'n easy DIY planet-cooling technique for y'all:

Whenever you boil a kettle, make sure that you ONLY use as much water in the kettle as needed.

For instance, if you wanna make only one cup 'o tea, have the water in the kettle only cover the element, so that it don't boil dry.

There's no point in boiling a full kettle for only one cup.

I've been doing this consciously for years, now, and I must say that my hometown is at least three degrees cooler because of this.

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Boerseun

For instance, if you wanna make only one cup 'o tea, have the water in the kettle only cover the element, so that it don't boil dry.

There's no point in boiling a full kettle for only one cup.

I've been doing this consciously for years, now, and I must say that my hometown is at least three degrees cooler because of this.

It might sound trivial buy multiply that by a million or so people and you have then got something important happening. "Act Locally Think Globally" as they say.

If you invested in one of these:-
http://www.abc.net.au/newinventors/txt/s1740164.htm
You could have all your hot water for tea free!

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by CraigD

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I’d never considered this. I hope that this effect is confined to costal waters, and that these DDT films break up, poisoning only a small area of phytoplankton, before reaching the open ocean.

See
http://www.hancock.forests.org.au/docs/chlorine.htm
or seach in google scholar Many Australian articles strangely

3.3.10 Plankton. Suppression of photosynthesis in phytoplankton exposed to low levels of PCBs has been reported.
98 Chronic exposure to PCBs has the ability to alter populations of the marine microlayer through the disruption of egg and larvae development.99
The microlayer is a film of natural fats and oils on the surface of the ocean - it is a highly productive ecosystem and under extreme threat of long term damage due to the fat-loving nature of organochlorines.

See also
DDT Should it be used?

[Turtle]

Let us suppose for a moment the worm turns and Earth abruptly cycles into another ice age ; what means may we employ for D.I.Y planet warming?

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Let us suppose for a moment the worm turns and Earth abruptly cycles into another ice age ; what means may we employ for D.I.Y planet warming?

Some say, in the long term, we may be going into a planetry cooling phase.
But we seem to know all there is about planet warming

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

Some say, in the long term, we may be going into a planetry cooling phase.
But we seem to know all there is about planet warming

Really!? You could've fooled me.

[Michaelangelica]

The Swindon Borough Council Debating Chamber??

My audio is on the blink so I didn't listen to this.
Is there anything there more than hot air?
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/...l?c=on#c157333

After the formal part of the event, tea and coffee was served, and some of the local politicians took the opportunity to talk to the climate campaigners.
Roderick Bluh surprised us by offering Swindon Climate Action Network the use, free of charge, of the Swindon Borough Council debating chamber, should we want it to hold a similar event in future.

The blog at the end about E=MC2 was interesting (but useless??)

[Zythryn]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Let us suppose for a moment the worm turns and Earth abruptly cycles into another ice age ; what means may we employ for D.I.Y planet warming?

If it had not already happened we could find and release the larger stores of methane trapped in the ocean floor.

However, doing anything on this scale holds HUGE risk as we really would have little idea about what we were doing. It could very well be like lighting a haybale in a barn

[Michaelangelica]

THE SCIENCE SHOW - Your PC - worth ten times its weight in carbon Saturday September 30, 12.10pm & Monday October 2, 7.10pm, RN Each lap top computer takes ten times its weight in carbon to manufacture.
As 208 million of them were sold last year alone, that's some hefty contribution to the atmospheric load. What can be done? Stewart Hickey from the University of Limerick in Ireland has a practical suggestion that could make a huge difference.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/