Posted on 03/11/2025 4:30:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology calculated that as global warming caused by burning of coal, oil, gas continues, it may reduce the available space for satellites in low Earth orbit by anywhere from one-third to 82% by the end of the century, depending on how much carbon pollution is spewed. That’s because space will become more littered with debris as climate change lessens nature’s way of cleaning it up.
Part of the greenhouse effect that warms the air near Earth’s surface also cools the upper parts of the atmosphere where space starts and satellites zip around in low orbit. The cooling also makes the upper atmosphere less dense, which reduces the drag on the millions of pieces of human-made debris and satellites.
That drag pulls space junk down to Earth, burning up on the way. But a cooler and less dense upper atmosphere means less space cleaning itself. That means that space gets more crowded, according to a study in Monday’s journal Nature Sustainability.
“We rely on the atmosphere to clean up our debris. There’s no other way to remove debris,” said study lead author Will Parker, an astrodynamics researcher at MIT. “It’s trash. It’s garbage. And there are millions of pieces of it.”
“There used to be this mantra that space is big. And so we can we can sort of not necessarily be good stewards of the environment because the environment is basically unlimited,” Parker said.
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What an absolute crock of merde.
It’s all the gas from those two astronauts stuck up there for the past 9 months.
The AP = Associated Propaganda.
If I am reading this right, they are saying that more space for satellites means less space for satellites.
What drug are these lefty looney toons taking and/or smoking ?
With the comments out of the Canadaites worried about needing Nukes to protect themselves against The USA I’m pretty sure they are All using the same thing.
I am hoping that the shut down of the lefts slush fund otherwise known as USAID will soon end these “reports” on climate change. Without grant money I doubt they will do such studies.
In 1815 a volcano in the the south pacific erupted and put so much derbies in the air that it caused a real climate change -it was known as the “the year without summer.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
Other then in small areas humans have not been able to duplicate this feat.
Climate change is just one tool in the globalist are using to enslave the people of the world.
Climate change turned me into a newt.
SUVs are shrinking space. If this continues, soon there will be no space. The whole universe will be Earth’s atmosphere. Like in those 1930’s Flash Gordon movies.
Global warming is increasing the pressure of the earth’s core which is magnifying the magnetic field and pulling in the satellites like a giant Ming the Merciless weapon! (Sarc alert, typed with Queen’s 1980 Flash song in mind)
Hilarious
“Climate Change Sends Earth Crashing into the Sun!!!” Details at eleven.
The AP believes that if they capitalize the word “White”, that the world will end.
I call B.S.
Yes, and the warming of the atmosphere is causing it to cool. My head hurts.
EC
(...giving you an opportunity here)
How can you type on the keyboard?
God father of climate change is Al Gore, boy did he pick a cash cow up to now
“What an absolute crock of merde.”
Absolutely. Isn’t colder denser? This is 180 degrees from fact. It is going to create even more drag on this hardware.
One of the goals in building automobile race engines is doing everything you can to cool the air coming into the engine so it is more dense and you can pack more into every compression stroke.
I got better.
Complete and utter bullshite. Satellites do not orbit within the atmoshpere. They orbit well outside the atmoshpere...and for good reason.
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