Posted on 08/07/2017 10:25:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Late last month, about 100 researchers from around the world gathered at Logan International Airport in Boston. A fleet of buses appeared to whisk them to a remote and luxurious ski resort in northeastern Maine. They met to talk, drink, and cogitate off the record for five days about a messy solution to one of the world’s most challenging problems. They had gathered to discuss how to provide humanity one last line of defense against catastrophic global warming: solar geoengineering.
The idea behind solar geoengineering is simple. For the last four decades, humanity has struggled to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas entering the atmosphere. We have decommissioned nuclear plants, introduced millions of new gasoline-burning cars to the roadway, and dawdled through treaty after treaty. Meanwhile, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has only risen.
An administration hostile to climate mitigation has taken power in the United States, and some countries risk falling short of the promises they made under the Paris Agreement. It seems suddenly plausible that the industrialized world will not succeed in staving off two degrees of temperature rise.
“With the physics [of stratospheric injection], you can have huge multipliers. You put one particle in the stratosphere and it can deflect trillions of photons,” said Ken Caldeira, a senior scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science.
Yet this makes the most feasible form of geoengineering (dimming the sun) only a stopgap. “Most of the climate models project that solar geoengineering could offset most climate change for most people most of the time. But in climate models, if something goes wrong, you can run the model again. In the real world you don’t have that option,” Caldeira said.
So much of the meeting was devoted to the natural follow-up question: What could go wrong?
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A: Read "The Black Cloud" for the answer. For those "researchers" with millennial attention spans, here's the CliffsNotes version:
The sun is pretty dim seen from the surface of Venus, which is 800+ degrees.
we should darken and tint the sky to lessen the impact of the son. Also drink more stare and wave it so that the sea levels don’t rise. Move to northern canada and start farming
I see now. Skynet has to take control to stop humans from extinquishing themselves.
“An administration hostile to climate mitigation* has taken power in the United States...”
*Wealth re-distribution scheme.
Best. Election. Ever. EVER! :)
The Gulf nations are busy constructing nuclear power plants. These are best operating flat out night and day. But, what to do with the energy they produce during the day? A good idea would be to desalinate water and then irrigate the desert lands of the interior of the Arabian peninsula. Grow brush and graze sheep and goats. Over time, this will transform the topsoil. In the meanwhile, the biomass will draw CO2 out of the atmosphere. Same thing with unreliable wind power. Use it to desalinate and move water, and irrigate the inland of Texas. We can pull a lot of CO2 out of the atmosphere, and in the process irrigate a lot of desert and semi-desert lands.
Call me a tinfoil hatter but I think this is just social conditioning to accept that they’ve already been doing it, that’s what all the so-called “chemtrail” crap has been, reflective aerosols.
Is this about the upcoming eclipse?
Decreasing the amount of solar radiation reaching the surface and fueling photosynthesis, causing a worldwide drop in plant growth, which would impact the ability to survive of all life on earth? And which would, ironically, increase the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, since the process of photosynthesis fuels the conversion of carbon dioxide into biomolecules that makes all life possible?
Indeed, what could possibly go wrong?
It's long past time for these climate alarmists to engage with the life sciences community. Without that carbon dioxide that they are all panicking about, life on earth cannot exist. The climate alarmists seem completely unaware of that fact. Or they *are* aware, and their intent *is* to destroy all life--because destroying humanity is worth the small complication of destroying the ability of the earth to support life.
I don't think that man-made global warming is real. But, regardless of whether it is or not, I think the surest way to *really* screw things up is to have a bunch of government bureaucrats attempt to "fix" things.
What was the carbon footprint of this elite group who flew into Logan and were taken by the fleet of busses to a resort in Maine?? What was the carbon footprint of the resort they stayed at? Carbon footprint of the busses??
Malachi 3:19-20
...For lo, the sun comes, glowing like a furnace, and all the audacious sinners and all the perpetrators of wickedness will be stubble.
And the sun that comes shall burn them up so that it will leave them neither root nor branch, says the Lord of Hosts.
But the sun of mercy shall rise with healing in its wings for you who fear My Name...
As usual, he's always three steps ahead of everyone else.
Is it a coincidence he looks like Barney Fife?
It’s freezing and raining here ,I think the clouds have that covered already
They can use as much carbon as they want because they CARE. They are warm, loving people who care.
Exactly two weeks after I write this, a total eclipse of the sun is scheduled to take place in this part of the country. I hope that helps.
I volunteer to shoot any “scientist” that plans to launch any crap into the atmosphere to block sunlight.
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