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..."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
Most climate activists would never support that spray-from-balloons scheme even if it was sure that it works because it would be simple and only cost pennies, but they demand the remaking of the whole society.
Yes! I don’t understand the logic of these idiots. “The earth is getting hotter” Well would they prefer it getting colder? Last time I checked not a lot of plants grow in the Antarctic and I’m sure they would want a lot of food since they made the USA a sanctuary country.
“…Plants hardest hit”
That’s PLANTIST!!!
Oh sure, that’ll cost loads of money, money they can once again graft and loot. These asses are unbelievable and they really need to be stopped. If they’re allowed to keep stealing elections then this nation is doomed.
Easiest way would be to take all of those taxpayer’s dollars and launch them into low earth orbit. There’d be a band of greenbacks circling the planet Earth, providing needed shade. /s
Big name democrats must be holding huge investments in the mirror manufacturers.
And how will the reflectivity compare with that of the sea surface?
What could possibly go wrong?
Liberals will never understand Unintended Consequences.
I find it interesting how a few people make decisions for billions.
Develop a way to make car exhaust reflect sunlight outward
I hope all the global warning lunatics freeze their butts off this winter.
Disrupt the sunlight falling upon Earth? What could possibly go wrong …
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There are many major things happening around us like people ‘dying suddenly’ and the persistent ‘chemtrails’ that no one wants to acknowledge. Weird hardly describes it, but the happenings just keep going on and on.
You are correct sir. They are douche bags.
Ya... It’s like the 2/3s of the planet covered in water doesn’t do that enough...
I guess they forgot about the acid rain hysteria of the 1980s...
Also per the EPA:
“Acid rain results when sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOX) are emitted into the atmosphere and transported by wind and air currents. The SO2 and NOX react with water, oxygen and other chemicals to form sulfuric and nitric acids. These then mix with water and other materials before falling to the ground.”
What’s their plan for this side effect? It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/06/dangerously-stupid-science-solar-geoengineering/
Best site for us climate deniers
I am a meteorologist
Is that why they plan to turn the clicks back an hour this month?
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