Posted on 07/02/2022 7:07:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The White House is developing a research plan that would guide and set standards for how scientists study one of the more controversial ways of counteracting climate change: solar geoengineering.
The basic idea is that we might be able to deliberately tweak the climate system in ways that release more heat into space, cooling an otherwise warming planet.
The move, which has not been previously reported on, marks the first federally coordinated US effort of this kind. It could set the stage for more funding and research into the feasibility, benefits, and risks of such interventions.
The effort may also contribute to the perception that geoengineering is an appropriate and important area of research as global temperatures rise.
Solar geoengineering encompasses a range of different approaches. The one that’s gained the most attention is using planes or balloons to disperse tiny particles in the stratosphere. These would then—in theory—reflect back enough sunlight to ease warming, mimicking the effect of massive volcanic eruptions in the past. Some research groups have also explored whether releasing certain particles could break up cirrus clouds, which trap heat against the Earth, or make low-lying marine clouds more reflective.
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“The climate change has been changing for billions of years and now they think can stop it “
Actually they do not and they know there is no need to. The climate BS is everything to the left in general and to the rats in particular. Unlimited Power, Control and funding. They will use it to inflict so much misery the people be relegated to serfdom.
Only 1 billion?
👍 You are correct.
later
Nothing will go wrong with this (sarcasm for the slow people). It begins with spending money that we don’t have, digging us deeper in the inflation hole.
Montgomery Burns shaded the sun in a Simpson’s episode.
Wouldn’t hot greenhouse gas escape through the gigantic hole in the ozone?🤷🏿♀️
Yes, money laundering. But also they will need an excuse when the world doesn’t die in (what is it?) 7.5 years. They can then say that their efforts put it off for a few more years.
The White House is developing a research plan.
We know how that will end we saw how all their other plans went more gasoline on the fire mode.
The dazed and confused sage continues.
They could start by pulling their heads out of where the sun DON’T shine.
“deliberately tweak the climate system in ways that release more heat into space”
If this really goes through, the best we could hope for President Obama-Jarrett’ friends (who pulled off the Solyndra scam) would be given the contract...they would pretend to be working on something and then shut down the operation and skate away with billions. The worst that could happen: the end of like on earth.
Are the Demonrats REALLY this stupid?
More people die from frost bite than sunstroke.
I see it was another Ubama/Biden debacle.
Shouldn’t there be an IQ or good sense test to run for office or occupy any position of responsibility?
The easiest solution would be to build as many passenger rockets as possible. Then load ALL POLITICIANS and all liberals into them and send them off into permanent orbit around the sun. That would reduce hot air and gaseous emissions by 99.99% and allow life on earth to continue.
Where is the article in the United States Constitution that delegates this power to the Federal government, to attempt to regulate the global atmosphere of the world?
Count on the Joe Stolen/”Que mala” Harris regime and the Democrat Socialist oligarchy behind them to come up with the exactly WRONG answer to solve a non-existent problem that has only always been in their fevered imaginations.
Want to do some REAL terraforming? On the east coast of the continent of Africa, build a series of thorium-fueled molten salt reactors, the principle purpose of which would be to evaporate huge quantities of sea water down to brine or even rock salt, with a huge condensing tower to catch the water vapor. The condensed and now very pure distilled water is then sent in conduits westward to the expanse of the Sahara Desert, where it can make the desert bloom again, on a scale not seen since probably pre-Biblical times, gradually driving back the line of desertification that has been creeping southward at an accelerating rate in historical times. With time, and enough fresh water made available, the entire desert could be converted into a breadbasket for the whole world, and change weather patterns across the Atlantic in dramatic ways.
Now, of course, this is going to result in a HUGE pile of rock sea salt, which is known to contain every metallic element on the periodic table, plus a lot of non-metallic elements. With a little clever chemical engineering, these various fractions of the mixture could be abstracted from the very dominant sodium chloride, rendering up a quantity of potassium chloride, which crystallizes out separately from sodium chloride, and on a massive scale, would be an excellent new source of mineral fertilizer. Other mineral salts also crystallize out and may be separated in this manner, using machinery to harvest the various fractions. There is a distinct line between each rate of crystallization, creating a potential source for a number of elements like lithium and the rare earths so essential for the development of high-tech storage batteries, and even a little bit of gold may be recovered in this manner.
No. Totally inadequate.
Need 12 months - definitely.
The "Beltway Ice Age" is required, IMO.
Frozen solid. Absolute zero temps.
No molecular movement whatsoever.
/s (just kidding)
****The basic idea is that we might be able to deliberately tweak the climate system in ways that release more heat into space, cooling an otherwise warming planet. ***
Not a new idea. Remember back during the COMING ICE AGE Scare that a plan was drawn up to mine coal, grind it to dust, mix it with oil and spray it on the ice fields to absorb heat from the sun and stop THE COMING ICE AGE!
Popular Science Magazine also had this to say...
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!
Woohoo! This could fund research institutes for years!
Rather than enacting a sound money policy (higher interest rates on loans) and a consumption tax (an income tax only on money people use to buy stuff) to discourage overconsumption.
Okee-dokee.
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