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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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.
They’re just trying to justify what has already been going on for years.
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
So a lot of climate change BS probably chatter to cover up their screw ups
A quick guess is widespread death and planetary destruction.
Duuuude
Ba da bing
Since the dawn of time, man ha yearned to destroy the Sun.
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?”
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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?
They aren’t screw ups in their eyes. But the climate BS is chatter to cover the damage being done on purpose.
I suggest loading all the global warming/AGW/'climate change' stooges on some of those upcoming SpaceX Starships and exiling them to Mars.
And bask in chairs of fine Corinthian leather.
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.
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
Errf needs a pair of cheap sunglasses. Of course with governments involved it will be anything but cheap!
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.
Yes, a massive shade would slow man made climate change. Also, a giant hamburger to feed the poor.
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