Posted on 08/09/2023 3:28:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Some of the most exotic solutions to climate change are the various forms of geoengineering. Such proposals aim to reduce global warming by shrinking the amount of solar radiation that reaches Earth’s surface—by, say, injecting large amounts of sulfur dioxide or dust into the air to mimic the cooling effect of large volcanic eruptions. Or building catapults to launch lunar dust into orbit around Earth and intercept the sun’s rays in the space near our planet.
But University of Hawaii cosmologist István Szapudi has an even more far-out idea: place a 372,000-mile-wide sun shade tethered to a captured asteroid between Earth and the sun to reduce the amount of solar radiation reaching our planet by 1.7 percent. His analysis is agnostic to the shade’s shape, though he imagines it could be a circular shade made of triangular segments, able to open or close like flower petals to allow variable amounts of sunlight through.
“It’s not going to cast a sharp shadow,” Szapudi says. ”Maybe with a telescope you could notice that there is something in front of the sun. But other than that, it would just be that people would notice that the weather is a little bit better.”
He readily admits that this concept would require millions of dollars investment in just preliminary engineering studies to see if it is really possible. “Of course, it’s unrealistic to actually do this, so hopefully, we will slowly give up fossil fuels,” Szapudi says, citing a much more mainstream goal to curb a source of climate change. “But that’s a very long-term process.”
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“It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature”
...Especially when a non-trivial fraction of the scientific community believes that Earth is entering a cool-down period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C98awWeO04
It’s only money....
Just think. The people coming up with these ideas are “educated” and have degrees. Tells you everything about the quality of a college education nowadays.
…Or critical thinking. All the environmentalists have been saying forever that global warming, now “climate change”, has been Man’s Fault. Now it’s too much Sun? We are in the middle of a solar maximum cycle. With a shade like that in place what’s gonna happen when we are at the low point in the cycle?
Can that cause us to have an ice age?
He’s right about one thing- millions of dollars will be needed to study this, which will end up in the pockets of MORE scientists, and MORE politicians.
Another cash cow for them at our expense.
Most of the dumbest people on this planet are highly educated.
That arrogance leads to unintended consequences. They should know that and completely avoid wasting their time on messing with the Earth’s climate. In a way, I think these scientists really are not scientists at all. The basis of all science is observation. They have not observed scientific disasters of the past and scaled the consequences to the size of the planet.
If they want something that might actually work, quit paving roads black. White might be too bright to drive on, but a lighter color than black would not heat up as much. Roads, roofs, and any other large surfaces exposed to sun light.
Seems like a pretty simple answer that might work, to me.
White liberals are the dumbest people on the planet.
It is they who prove that White Supremacy is a myth.
Clouds.
As the oceans warm, more water vapor is created which condense into clouds. The clouds in turn block sunlight and cool the oceans again.
It's a self-regulating system.
Would a massive shade between Earth and the sun help slow climate change? Which everyone knows is a fake issue designed to generate large grants to keep the supporters in the life style they would like to become accustomed to.
Other than that this nutty non-solution would surely increase the chance of, if not down right create, a new ice age. For which the only solution to stop is the massive burning of fossil fuels.
GOOD CATCH! These people live off of tax dollars because they have no useful real-world skills.
Arrrgh ... the stupid, it hurts ... make it stop ...
They are 21st Century snake oil salesmen.
“... a 372,000-mile-wide sun shade...”
Think about that. 372 THOUSAND MILES. The circumference of the Earth is 25 thousand miles. If someone seriously proposed an idea that unrealistic where I worked they would have been escorted off the premises.
István Szapudi
Rhymes with. .. Is da man stupid.
Chuckle-head “science”.
And some people claim the school system is not a joke.
So we could send Chris Christie into space?
Yes, please!!!
I think that would be a bad idea. This man Istvan needs to lay off the weed.
Can we keep our cars now?
Well played sir!
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