This is an introductory article into geoengineering and its effects on all living beings and Earth herself. It is the first article in a series I have been planning for some time.
The idea of global warming stems from the hypothesis made in 1880 that the temperature on Earth will rise for 1 degree C until 1940 because of the usage of fossil fuels and CO2 exhausts. In 1979 Magaret Thatcher, who was a graduate in chemistry and wanted to gain international respect, used this idea proposed to her by Sir Crispin Tickell, an ambassador of Great Britain in the UN. He suggested her that the majority of the international statesmen are scientifically illiterate. She spoke about global warming in her speeches at every political summit and UK became the prime promotor of global warming. Margaret Thatcher used that for enforcing the transition in harnessing electrical energy from fossil fuels to nuclear power plants. (Source: Global Warming: How It All Began by Richard Courtney)
Those who are old enough can remember the strikes, scarcity they endured and the fight between Margaret Thatcher and the coal miners’ union of United Kingdom. They were daily news then.
The next politician who used this in such a manner was Al Gore in his Inconvenient Truth. I guess this second introduction of this idea has most probably the same intent – some transition from one source of power supply to another.
The problem is though, that an expert explained me that for electrical system to function without blackouts, all of the next resources are combined: hydro power plants (using water), thermal power plants (using coal) and the nuclear power plants. When one is out in repair or in decreased operation, they switch on the other type of electricity producer or increase its operation.
The solar power plants don’t produce enough energy – for now, besides hardly anyone talks about their side effects: overflying birds fall down from the sky fried, water or air is used to clean the mirrors/solar panels and it also crates different microclimate. Also, wind power plants – they can use them where the wind blows powerfully enough constantly, and the side effects: birds flying into the turbines and they create their own microclimate as well. There are side effects of other plants too, like aerosol particles in the air from thermal plants, nuclear waste and leak out possibility from nuclear power plants, changed river flow and wind flow (becomes more foggy) from hydro power plants, what also changes the microclimate. The above certainly doesn’t cover all the effects neither all the side effects of all types of electricity production.
If you think that climate change is caused by traffic only and the ozone hole by CFCs in refrigerators and sprays, than no, it is not this way. It might contribute, but that to be the only reason is very unlikely. You see, each launched rocket also has its effects on the weather and climate, and others: “in USA every rocket launch that carries a space shuttle into the atmosphere, releases 240 tons of HCl, 26 tons of Cl2, 7 tons of NO and 304 tons of Al2O3 . HCl acid melts 16 m concrete launching platform raises the concentration of HCl acid in the nearby lakes up to 3M and cause massive dying of the fish in the oceans and destroys the car paint on the cars (area within 20 miles around the launch site). The major chemists think that HCl acid is the major cause of the holes in the ozone layer of the atmosphere.” (http://r3zn8d.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/shuttle-launch-acid-rain.pdf)
There is no need to lash out at USA as the only guilty one because of this, now - rockets are being launched also by other countries and there is a global rocket launch schedule website. Some years ago I found a more precise calendar of global rocket launches where there was a rocket launch nearly every second day, but it is gone now. However, you can get yourself a space launch schedule app. Also a new rocket fuel was tested: ALICE (aluminum and ice particles). Currently, some 4000 satellites orbit the Earth and SpaceX wants to launch some 4,425 new internet-providing satellites more in the near future.
So, when we hillbillies are bound to the ground&screens, some are planning to leave to some other part of the universe. Meanwhile, they splash everything with whatever the exhausts of the rockets contain. Well, we watch the satellite TV, don’t we? Dare we complain?
And by the way, we also have the spacecraft cemetery on Earth, which is approximately 2,250 km (1400 miles) from any spot of land in the middle of the ocean. The spot is called Nemo and the Oceanic Point of Inaccessibility, which exact coordinates are: 48 degrees 52.6 minutes south latitude and 123 degrees 23.6 minutes west longitude. Between 1971 and mid 2016 space agencies from all over the world have dumped over 260 spacecrafts there in the Pacific Ocean. Not every spacecraft lands there, though. By the beginning of 2018, the Chinese Tiangong-1 satellite, upon which China lost control, is going to crash somewhere on Earth.
We are also told that something is being sustainable or clean energy. Well, whatever we take from somewhere to produce something is missing where it has been taken, and is being put somewhere where it didn’t exist before. Production of goods/equipment also creates waste in the beginning of the production process and at the end of the product life-cycle as the usual used amount of raw material in producing something is from 5-30% (attempts are to increase it to 60 %), and the rest is thrown away as waste. Any type of equipment to produce electrical energy thus causes the extraction of some raw material from somewhere and then the extraction of the material needed and production of the needed equipment component. We should see the bigger picture: from where it came in the nature to where it ended and all that is needed to produce some product/service.
Where an oil drill was once, now is water as it fills the empty well, and sometimes it is gas or oil. Actually this might not be a good example, perhaps the coal, lead, or some other mine where the caverns are left empty or stuffed with some other waste would be a better one, for instance, nuclear waste in an abandoned German salt mine which walls are now cracking due to pressure.
Don’t get me wrong – I don’t say the climate doesn’t change overtime, or that there aren’t warmer or cooler periods, but what causes it might be something different than we are told. Humans have been influencing the weather and changing the climate throughout history by warfare, construction/industry, agriculture, pollution, and ceremonies. What I’m trying to present here is that every object placed on earth or in the water creates a current, a change in turbulence or turbulent flow of wind and/or water. And if objects are eliminated then the current turbulent flow of water or air changes also and affects the microclimate and weather in a small or big way.