Posted on 04/20/2022 12:21:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In 1991, Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines, injecting nearly 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the sky. This sudden burst of gas in the atmosphere reflected away sunlight from Earth and lowered the planet’s average temperature by about 1 degree Fahrenheit for a little longer than a year. If humanity wants to turn down the worst effects of global warming, then it simply needs to do that, with planes, indefinitely.
That is the idea, at least, of solar geoengineering. To its supporters, mimicking a large volcanic eruption is an ethical necessity, a way to soften the blow of climate change. “Perhaps the best reason to take cooling seriously is that benefits seem likely to go to the poorest countries,” David Keith, a Harvard professor of applied physics.
The technology necessary for geoengineering has never been successfully demonstrated, but already many economists are sure that it will happen at some point this century. That’s because its theoretical costs are little more than a few flights, a spraying device, and a couple million tons of sulfuric acid—expensive, to be sure, but not out of the reach of your average island nation or climate-concerned billionaire.
But geoengineering is far from a sure bet. To its critics, the technology runs the risk of re-creating some of the worst mass extinctions in the planet’s history, which have been the consequence of boosting both the atmosphere’s carbon-dioxide level and its sulfate level. We’re already pumping CO2 into the sky, they argue. Why are we so sure that adding sulfates won’t just backfire?
A new study hints that solar geoengineering is going to be even more complicated than its proponents realize: It could expose tens or even hundreds of millions of people to malaria every year.
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These liberals freaks can’t decide what’s a male or female, now they want to try darkening the sun to lower the global temperature, what could possibly go wrong...LOL
Getting echoes of Highlander II: The Quickening here........
Everybody likes warm weather. Why should we go back to the ice ages?
Just use ‘ the clapper’. Sheesh
These folks are freakin’ insane.
LMAO!!
They will kill us all while trying to save us.
How much sun needs to be blocked? For how long? Where is the math? What is Earth’s correct temperature anyhow?
People in the Medieval Warm Period and Roman Warm Period were wise enough to appreciate how good it was, and by some measures they didn't have it as good as we do. LOL
I’ve seen this movie before.
It doesn’t end well for mankind.
If ever there has been a collection of conspiracy theorists, it is definitely the group of so many “climate emergency ‘scientists’” and deep state politicians/bureaucrats.
What could possibly go wrong?............................
We’ve had the technology to cheaply kill hurricanes for a half century, but can’t because everyone will sue everyone else if we do it.
Block the Sun? Right.
We have? Link?
Climate has been in a constant state of change since the earth was created. It’s like a pendulum, always moving - one way then the other. Why do these people want to change what God has ordained.
In most cases, when some out of the ordinary condition arises it is caused by activity on the sun’s surface. There is a good reason for everything that occurs.
For humans to try to influence the every day flow of nature’s activity is to invite disaster.
"DON'T MESS with MOTHER NATURE!"
So instead...we pull sunlight in to these solar panels.
You suffered through that craptastic movie too?
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