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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This does not end well. Biden eff’s up everything he touches. This will be no different. The arrogance of a demented man will receive God’s wrath.
Maybe we should get the earth away from the sun by everyone blowing hard at the same time in the same direction. Then go over to the other side and blow hard enough to put on the brakes so we don’t collide with Mars. That’ll be called Global Blow Job!
This has gone over the top! What demented idiots. They have no right to do this.
Don’t we need that for our solar panels?
Cow turds make great fertilizer, and can and is used to make green energy on dairy farms. They have a problem with nature. How did the world get along ‘til they showed up!
Keep going woke and the earth will cool considerably, after the conflageration.
(Non) nuclear winter,anyone?
Our current leadership makes Nero seem like a piker
we are so screwed
There are other examples. The Planet Miranda in “Serenity.” Their manipulation of the environment to remove anger and violence from the population caused the Reavers.
A myriad of possible unintended consequences, IMO. So, remove the heat from the atmosphere and what happens to air turbulence from temperature variations in air masses? Do all their precious wind turbines stop then?
Climate Scientists (aka bad weathermen) can’t even predict tomorrow’s weather and temperature precisely for any given area. How can they be trusted with this?
Insanity run amok. What fools they are.
Makes sense. Got some preliminary concepts you could share? 😂
Are they starting to believe their own bs?
I wrote a science fiction book a couple of decades ago called fallen angel. It brings up this very issue. Basically, in the book, the world is looking at glaciers edging down through Montana again. It’s because of the work of the world governments to cool the planet decades before. I would not be surprised if snowpiercer got its idea from that book actually.
Is your company the ones who make the extra hours of light we get during DST too? Are you expanding your factory now that we are looking at going to it permanently?
Im the president of the company that is working on reversing the flow of electricity back into windmills so we can fly the earth into an orbit that counteracts global warming.
By the way, have you heard the array of arguments that snowpiercer is a sequel to Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory?
It’s actually pretty hard to argue with. 🤣
Get ready for the great vitamin D deficiency era. People will begin to look like Matthias in the 1972 movie “The Omega Man”.
Just like the military industrial complex, sucking the American taxpayer dry, there is also a Quack Science Complex, doing the same thing. /spit
Why not just have SpaceX drop some Mylar reflectors into orbit? They would be very easy to control and to remove if necessary. And, a whole lot less worrisome than spraying sulfur into the atmosphere. Less Acid Rain.
This would be a lot cheaper too.
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