Posted on 12/20/2020 11:25:09 AM PST by BenLurkin
The flight, which requires approval from a Harvard project advisory committee, will test how to manoeuvre the balloon and check communications equipment and other systems. It would not release any particles into the stratosphere.
Still, if successful, it could be a step towards an experiment, perhaps in the autumn of 2021 or spring of 2022, to release a tiny amount – up to 2 kg - of non-toxic calcium carbonate dust into the atmosphere, Keith said.
Studying that material's effects on high-altitude sunlight could help advance understand of how solar geoengineering might work.
But opponents see the Swedish balloon as a step on a slippery slope towards engineering the climate with an artificial sunshade - something with potentially large and hard-to-predict risks, such as shifts in global rain patterns.
Officials of the Harvard project, the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), said they did not believe it needed any special approval from Sweden for the flight.
SCoPEx said about 300 similar stratospheric balloons were launched worldwide in 2019. Backers of SCoPEx include Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Anni Bolenius, spokeswoman for the Swedish Space Corporation, also said "We comply with all applicable international and national legislations."
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If age is caused by humans, why is there a need to dim the sun?
Growl, auto correct, age should be AGW
Make way for the
Klimate Kontrol Korps
Not necessary, the Sun is cycling down all on its own, mini Ice Age has already begun, maybe not so mini.......
We are overdue for another.
Can I then release HCl into that area with my own balloon?
These people are out of their freakin minds.
Sure, let’s see what happens. What could go wrong?
(/s, for those who need it)
and while we’re at it let the Biden Klimate Kiddies make it worse ! Snowball Earth ! We can do better then the Late Ordovician glaciation !
Yeah, me and my wife still debate where to set the thermostat in our house.
Who will decide what the “correct” temperature of the planet should be?
Humans can’t affect the climate either way.... it is hubris to think we can
So they are predicting the end of volcanoes? How about an asteroid that turns to dust in the atmosphere?
That genius climate scientist, Al Gore, of course.
This is a point I try to make in discussions with people.
I mention facts, such as how Chicago was buried under a mile of ice during the last ice age, and how that ice age ended due to a natural climate of global warming. We know that Cro-magnon man didn’t have coal fired power plants, so previous periods of global warming had nothing to do with human activity.
Criminy, I swear Liberal Democrats are the DUMBEST beings on the planet.
That’s Kommie Klimate Kontrol Korps.
While I don’t believe any level of man-made shade will have negligible impact, I trust them about zero. I can’t help but think of a vehicle that is adequately adjusting to the contours of a road and some genius slams the wheel in one direction to compensate and drives off a cliff or into a granite wall.
Some billionaire climate zealot with access to low earth orbit can do pretty much whatever the radical left wishes
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