Posted on 07/02/2022 7:07:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The White House is developing a research plan that would guide and set standards for how scientists study one of the more controversial ways of counteracting climate change: solar geoengineering.
The basic idea is that we might be able to deliberately tweak the climate system in ways that release more heat into space, cooling an otherwise warming planet.
The move, which has not been previously reported on, marks the first federally coordinated US effort of this kind. It could set the stage for more funding and research into the feasibility, benefits, and risks of such interventions.
The effort may also contribute to the perception that geoengineering is an appropriate and important area of research as global temperatures rise.
Solar geoengineering encompasses a range of different approaches. The one that’s gained the most attention is using planes or balloons to disperse tiny particles in the stratosphere. These would then—in theory—reflect back enough sunlight to ease warming, mimicking the effect of massive volcanic eruptions in the past. Some research groups have also explored whether releasing certain particles could break up cirrus clouds, which trap heat against the Earth, or make low-lying marine clouds more reflective.
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I smell a “billion dollar boondoggle” which will enrich Sloe Joe and his FRiends!
Sloe Joe’s “Solyndra?”
What could possibly go wrong? Like the Crescent Dunes solar plant outside Tonopah NV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9IdJHNYX40
Sorta back in operation now butt...............
Oh Geees, Why don’t they just leave it alone.?!
God save us!
Meanwhile the elites will continue flying around in their private jets.
$$$ laundering again
YUP!
FRom poor suffering American taxpayers to Sloe Joe and his rich FRiends!
The climate change has been changing for billions of years and now they think can stop it , LOL
That is EXACTLY what it’s going to be.
10 feet of Snow in DC 11 months of the year would be GREAT
Messing around with the upper atmosphere is a recipe for global disaster.
But that’s stock and trade for democrats these days.
Where have you been? This was a done deal in the covid stimulus bill. It was pushed by couch sitter Newt, as a compromise. The WEF agenda is seen in a similar manner. To the right of AoC.
They’re planning to poke a hole in our atmospheric balloon to let out some heat? One can only imagine how that’s going to turn out.
The sheer ignorant arrogance of these people is mind-boggling.
They’ve already been doing this for 25 years.
“Messing around with the upper atmosphere is a recipe for global disaster.”
Absolutely. By the time you start seeing any effect, it’s irreversible. Can’t fine-tune this stuff.
What could possibly go wrong?
We do have the technology to cool the earth.
We do not have the technology to warm the earth when they screw it up and we are all starving because it is too cold to grow crops.
The fools who would do this are dangerous.
A little warming, overall is a good thing, if in fact there is warming.
2-There are no actions man can take to impact the climate.
3-Attempting to move off of fossil fuel to unreliable and inadequate wind and solar power will only crash the economy and our culture.
Which is the the ultimate goal anyway.
There is no means to store "renewable energy" on a commercial scale.
They are opposed to nuclear power, because they don't want a solution. They want global Population Control and destruction of our Constitutional Republic.
To be clear, there is nothing gradual about their Population Control plans.
They want Billions dead by 2030.
This is truly meddling in that which they have no understanding. Climate models are a joke and have proven to have no predictive value at all. If they are able to modify the climate, they have no idea at all about what those changes will be and have no idea if they could even reverse the changes they made if required.
A little warming, overall is a good thing, if in fact there is warming”.
I’ve seen numerous reports that we are going into a Solar Minimum which will bring on another mini ice age, which is expected because it all goes in cycles.
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