It has been addressed, but efficiency is problematic, especially in diesel engines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_converter

There's a reason that NO2 monitors today are near roads, because that's where much of the NO2 is being made and it is easy to for the monitors to monitor.

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/01/28/28gre...dside-monitors-45648.html

What happened to the talk that blamed the sun for everything.

http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/intern...hottest-hoax-in-the-world

regards

btw Weather is not Climate

Climate is average weather in a particular location

Just thought I would save you the trouble Eso ;-)

Oh and the point...


Our real life experience is at the extreme opposite end to that predicted by the CO2 hypothesis.

But not one taking into account the changes observed in solar output

The chinese have somwhere in their administration a department for "controlling" the weather. They use rockets that disperse silver-iodine crystals to make rain, and many other chemicals to try to master local weather according to their need. The results for sure are not as straightforward but it is their approach of the problem which is astounding.

We also had or have experiments of this type, on how to disperse clouds or on the opposite to make them rain. But all this remains more in the research domain and we have a big restraint about risks if we go too far.

The chinese do not have this kind of restraint. What is striking with their approach is that it is systematic with the clear objective to control the climate. At important events they will do whatever they can to ensure that the right weather is there. Like shooting hundreds of rockets with chemicals.
As an example for the Olympic games they indeed controlled the local weather. They needed blue sky, good weather and a clean city with nice people so everything was done to that end. No limit. They shut down the whole local economy for that end, deported people and ...... yes it worked. Forget the impact on millions of people. Who cares.
So if tomorrow the way to go is to disperse millions of tons of hazardous chemicals but to show success they seem to have have no trouble with that. Climate is simply a variable that must be mastered as any other engineering issue.

It is striking that there is no global vision at all. What count's is the success and the grandeur of China and it's single party I suppose and at any cost. The image (literally nice coloured picture) given to the rest of the world, but please do not scratch the paint, it is still very fresh.

It is so evident that if a country of the size of China would let's suppose succeed into an absolute control of it's climate, (weather at the whole country size) it can be only detrimental to other parts of the world. The climate is a global system, a thermal machinery powered mainly by the Sun, and affected thermally and chemically by our planet Earth, its oceans, continents and the living things, (and we debate exactly about this problem) all of which has a certain state of dynamic equilibrium. It is simple to see that if we modify at a very large scale climate somehere a new equilibrium will settle with as big as consequences somewhere else.
It is all the debate about the climate worldwide today. But it seems that there is a kind of invisible climatic border between China and the rest of the world. Climate change issues are for the world, but outside China.

But this does not seem to impress them too much as long as the Sun shines, and the sky is blue when the party commemorates an important political event.

Such blatant shortsightedness is just appaling.