As a chemist, if I had a choice of putting sulfate or
ocean spray into the atmosphore I chose the latter.
Not exact matches
Sea
spray droplets are aerosol water particles that are ejected
into the atmosphere as waves break at the
ocean surface.
Enceladus has plumes that
spray material from a subsurface
ocean out
into space; a lot of that material snows back down onto the moon's surface.
It gets even more confusing when Elizabeth suddenly takes off her battle armor, changes
into a nightie, walks to the top of a cliff and lets the
ocean surf
spray all over her.
Take a helicopter ride high above the Big Island's dramatic landscape, where the Kohala Mountains plunge
into the Pacific, the
ocean slaps back sea
spray, and waterfalls drape ancient land.
Outside, it's all about the infinity pool, carved
into a cliff and so close to the
ocean that swimmers get splashed by
spray.
Our 3 1/2 hour tours offer the opportunity to venture
into the wild and ignite all your senses: the salty taste of the
ocean spray; the unmistakable smell of a humpback's breath; the blow of a whale; the shrill sound of the gulls and eagles; the squeaks, squeals and whistles of the killer whales vocalizing through the on board hydrophone or the soothing yet elaborate song of the humpback males.
Giant boulders push
into the
ocean, waves crash
into coves, and fissures
spray foam high in the air.
Environmentalists demand government stop global warming, but oppose remedial actions like spreading iron filings on the
oceans to increase uptake of CO2 or
spraying chemicals
into the atmosphere to create clouds (chemtrails) to block sunlight and reduce global temperatures.
But between being
sprayed on land and getting
into the
oceans it necessarily gets there by becoming water vapour — more water vapour than would have been there historically when there was no irrigation.
Geoengineering aims to cool the Earth by methods including
spraying sulphate aerosols
into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight, or fertilising the
oceans with iron to create carbon - capturing algal blooms.
And the NRDC's Regan Nelson tells me that there's a new chemical dispersant that's being used in the cleanup effort — it's toxic, it's largely experimental, and it's being
sprayed in abundance
into the
ocean.
If just 1 % or even just half a percent of DWLWIR never reaches the
oceans because it is blocked by very fine water droplets of
spray and spume and is carried upwards
into the atmosphere (rather than reconnecting with the
oceans), then long term (over millions of years) the gross energy budget falls out of balance.
But the technologies that are promoted — from
spraying sulphate particles
into the stratosphere, to dumping iron particles
into the
ocean, to stimulate carbon absorbing plankton, to burning millions of [continue reading...]
Better yet, we just fill the special cube shaped bags someone suggested here with sea water and seal them and build liquid filled retaining walls around «sinking» countries and turn wind turbines
into giant sprinklers that pump water out of the
oceans and
spray it on land!