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Would a massive shade between Earth and the sun help slow climate change?
Popular Science ^ | August 9, 2023 | BY JON KELVEY

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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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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To: exPBRrat

Better Idea. I need a LARGE GRANT to study the idea of using enough dry ice to cool down the volcanoes so they don’t erupt and cause global cooling.


81 posted on 08/09/2023 6:33:17 AM PDT by oldasrocks (uit )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re just trying to justify what has already been going on for years.

https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/


82 posted on 08/09/2023 6:44:00 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator

So a lot of climate change BS probably chatter to cover up their screw ups


83 posted on 08/09/2023 6:45:05 AM PDT by dkGba
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To: glorgau
What could go wrong?

A quick guess is widespread death and planetary destruction.

84 posted on 08/09/2023 6:46:15 AM PDT by Fzob (“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Duuuude


85 posted on 08/09/2023 7:19:52 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: P8riot

Ba da bing


86 posted on 08/09/2023 7:20:48 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: dfwgator

Since the dawn of time, man ha yearned to destroy the Sun.


87 posted on 08/09/2023 7:20:54 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: Yo-Yo

Nimbo Cumulos!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gjLBLgQFkg


88 posted on 08/09/2023 7:23:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/07/the-big-5-natural-causes-of-global-warming-part-5-how-clouds-moderate-global-warming/
89 posted on 08/09/2023 7:39:12 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Remember the 1970s and THE COMING ICE AGE scare when a proposal was made to mine coal, grind it to dust, mix it with oil and spread it on the ice packs to INCREASE absorption from the sun?

Then THIS from the same POPULAR SCIENCE...

POPULAR SCIENCE, Feb 1980..
PS/What’s News ....
page 73
Changing the weather intentionally or otherwise weather modification..(Earth cooling vs Greenhouse effect)

“Do you suppose we can learn enough, soon enough, to pull off a balancing act with the CO2 blanket saving us from another ice age?”

*****
And WE DID IT! STOPPED THE COMING ICE AGE IN IT’S TRACKS!

Now they want to block the sun. What could possibly go wrong?


90 posted on 08/09/2023 8:02:38 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: dkGba

They aren’t screw ups in their eyes. But the climate BS is chatter to cover the damage being done on purpose.


91 posted on 08/09/2023 9:35:05 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
I suggest loading all the global warming/AGW/'climate change' stooges on some of those upcoming SpaceX Starships and exiling them to Mars.

92 posted on 08/09/2023 9:37:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Beowulf9

And bask in chairs of fine Corinthian leather.


93 posted on 08/09/2023 11:24:30 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (Wake me up when somebody tells the truth.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

no it would mess it up worse, much like solar panels, wind turbines, etc etc, is doing.

Istvan, Our weather patterns and irregularities aren’t broken! Stop thinking you know or can figure out, some way to fix what God intends for our weather. He never said it’d be as you want or think it should be.

Buy sunglasses an umbrella and boots for snow and deal with it, or move.


94 posted on 08/09/2023 11:56:26 AM PDT by b4me
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

95 posted on 08/09/2023 12:05:01 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Disambiguator

Totally!! I have a headache because it astounds me the number of people that buy into every piece of BS put in front of them!! THAT’S scary


96 posted on 08/09/2023 12:07:46 PM PDT by dkGba
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To: Spok
'Other than the total destruction of life on earth, what could go wrong?"
They probably will never intend to do it on any significant scale, but spend billions studying how to go about it.
97 posted on 08/09/2023 12:28:56 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Beowulf9

Errf needs a pair of cheap sunglasses. Of course with governments involved it will be anything but cheap!


98 posted on 08/09/2023 12:42:01 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: central_va

Yes I know but, they collect a lot of heat! After writing the post I went on a business ride yesterday and something occurred to me, the asphalt road I was driving on wasnt black, it was much lighter. Not white, but kind grey so maybe my idea is already being implemented without my even realizing it.


99 posted on 08/10/2023 5:39:09 AM PDT by weezel
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yes, a massive shade would slow man made climate change. Also, a giant hamburger to feed the poor.


100 posted on 08/13/2023 12:45:22 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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