MEAT represents a solution to climate change. Humans have extracted and burned fossil fuels. The resulting increase in CO2 and H2O in the atmosphere is causing the Earth to warm.
Mars Earth Atmosphere Transfer – MEAT
Proposal: Move 3% of Earth’s atmosphere to Mars.
This would cool Earth and warm Mars.
MEAT represents a solution to climate change. Humans have extracted and burned fossil fuels. The resulting increase in CO2 and H2O in the atmosphere is causing the Earth to warm.
Mars is extremely cold (-64 degrees C or -83 degrees F) because it has almost no atmosphere. Adding air to Mars would give it a warming blanket of vapor consisting of nitrogen, oxygen, water, carbon dioxide and methane. This would warm Mars, increase the atmospheric pressure needed for life, allow parachutes to work, and provide oxygen to breathe. Humans, dogs, cats, goats, sheep, cows, chickens, pigs, fish, plants and micro- organisms would then have many of the conditions for life met. Humans would have food, including meat.
Because Earth is so much larger than Mars, only about 3% of Earth’s atmosphere would be sufficient to provide Mars with adequate atmospheric pressure and oxygen for terraforming.
The idea behind MEAT is to very slowly transfer air from Earth to Mars – perhaps 0.1% of our atmosphere per year for 30 years – to carefully monitor the effects on Earth’s climate. One objection is that such a transfer of air would be human geoengineering of Earth’s environment. Humans, however, have already burned fossil fuels and have already changed the atmosphere. The cow has left the barn, and the gas has left the cow.
Disruptions in the climate and environment caused problems in many ancient civilizations including Egyptian, Chinese and Mayan. Let’s prevent that from happening again.
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Thank you, Ernest T. Armstrong inventor and founder of MEAT.
Contact Us ernest@exposurescientific.com