Posted on 10/13/2022 10:25:14 PM PDT by Libloather
The White House is coordinating a five-year research plan to study ways of modifying the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth to temper the effects of global warming, a process sometimes called solar geoengineering or sunlight reflection.
The research plan will assess climate interventions, including spraying aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space, and should include goals for research, what's necessary to analyze the atmosphere, and what impact these kinds of climate interventions may have on Earth, according to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. Congress directed the research plan be produced in its spending plan for 2022, which President Joe Biden signed in March.
Some of the techniques, such as spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, are known to have harmful effects on the environment and human health. But scientists and climate leaders who are concerned that humanity will overshoot its emissions targets say research is important to figure out how best to balance these risks against a possibly catastrophic rise in the Earth's temperature.
Getting ready to research a topic is a very preliminary step, but it's notable the White House is formally engaging with what has largely been seen as the stuff of dystopian fantasy. In Kim Stanley Robinson's science fiction novel, "The Ministry for the Future," a heat wave in India kills 20 million people and out of desperation, India decides to implement its own strategy of limiting the sunlight that gets to Earth.
Chris Sacca, the founder of climate tech investment fund Lowercarbon Capital, said it's prudent for the White House to be spearheading the research effort.
"Sunlight reflection has the potential to safeguard the livelihoods of billions of people, and it's a sign of the White House's leadership..."
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The sky is falling The sky is falling !!!
Maybe all new cars should have a weatherproof mirror installed where one would normally find a sunroof.
All the cartops can reflect the sunbeams right back into
Mr. Sun’s firey face!
The concept still requires a little tinkering.
Dumocrats try to follow science fiction. That is the premise of “Snow Piercer”. “Scientists” try to cool the earth, and it resulted in a world-wide ice age. Only the rich and powerful can buy a ride on Snow Piercer. The train moves around the globe while testing the earth to see if it’s warming up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lFMpmwn_hQ
How dare they. The can screw around with their bicycles, and eating worms and bugs, but they have no right to interfere with the sunlight. That IS nature. That IS natural. It is just the way God created it, perfect and without error. These are the same fools who want to put diapers on cows and give cows chemicals to stop them from burping!
“Spraying aerosols into the stratosphere”....so Bill Gates Sunblocker scheme is going ahead after all?
Now that NASA has learned to deflect asteroids, how about we crash one into the earth to trigger a nuclear winter effect and start another ice age? Just a suggestion.
Forget worrying about cooling the earth. . .these people need to be more concerned about the temperature of their ultimate destination if they don’t make a decision to follow Jesus. Heaven or Hell it’s everyone’s choice.
Back in the days of global cooling they were proposing to spread a mix of oil and coal dust on the ice caps too absorb more of the sun’s warmth. What could go wrong?
The EPA is trying to limit SO2 in the air. Per the EPA: “The largest source of SO2 in the atmosphere is the burning of fossil fuels by power plants and other industrial facilities.”
Why don’t we cut out the expensive middleman and fire up the coal burners?
Crazy. The gasses will still be in the atmosphere yet we want to reduce the sunlight that reaches the planet?
Moron in chief.
I have a plan to slow down the rotation of the earth so people will have more daylight to charge their solar panels.
Ok let’s have a new ice age and kill off most of the population
So if the methodology produces an “unexpected” catastrophic effect, how do they plan to reverse it, or is this all engineering by trial and error?
God damn. These people will be the death of us all.
When we’re all buried in snow I’m sure they’ll come up with something.
On the off chance these idiots are wrong - they damn well better have a way to ‘collect’ the crap they’re planning on putting into the atmosphere...
Not that Alarmists have ever been wrong or anything.../s
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