"Commence Operation... Vacu-suck."
I’m not a marxist or anything like that but has anyone considered the possibility of taking money away from stupid people for their own safety?
I don’t agree with the basic premise of intervening to deliberately affect world climate at all, but what the heck, these people just can’t help themselves. So, here goes.
Why don’t they just spend $5 billion on desalinization plants, to send seawater to arid regions? No need for “artificial” trees in that instance. A side benefit would be agrigulture to feed those incapable of feeding themselves, and it would help prevent shortages and keep prices in check for the balance of the population.
Of course, this is just too rational and too simple. We’re talking about lofty, self-absorbed types here, enraptured by their own presumption of brilliance, who have always greatly preferred a goldplated boondoggle. So, we’ll probably be deploying space mirrors and artificial trees and artificial clouds. Such fakery doesn’t aid in supporting the current population, let alone enable an increase in that population, and that’s a good thing for these neo-Malthusians.
On top of it all, this stuff comes from the putatively concerned, over manmade climate change. Grasping irony is just not their strong suit, but creating it is.
Now since then, we have heard about how the planet will practically autoignite because of plant food in the atmosphere, as if there were no biological controls either on land or in the upper 300 feet of the oceans where phytoplankton thrive and eventually will form the ooze which makes the oil of the distant future provided all goes well.
Now, in an attempt to mitigate a problem which we have been assured exists, despite problems with flawed data, severely edited datasets, obvious profit motives and agenda pushing, people propose to physically mitigate a problem which does not exist, not just profit from their lunacy and go home.
Let's say the climate does get warmer, the temperature (globally) rises by 5 degrees celsius, and the sea levels rise by a few meters.
Okay, some people are going to lose a bunch on their real estate investments and will have a hard time buying flood insurance, but people aren't cemented in place. The population of low-lying areas will move to higher ground, which will, by definition, become the new low-lying areas.
Millions of acres of previously untillable land, however, will become arable, by virtue of shifting temperatures, and even Greenland might be a bit more, well, green--in the literal sense.
Areas of the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, far Northern Europe, Siberia, and even Antarctica might become a bit more habitable, and as the foundations for new cities are dug, doubtless the remains of previous occupants will be discovered--all without the archaeologists having to wear parkas, just lots of bug spray.
Let's look at the opposite scenario, an Ice Age, where a third of the lower 48 is covered in ice, (and vast regions elsewhere) the amount of arable land decreases significantly, and the human population is squeezed into relatively narrow bands of habitable land.
Even with the expansion out onto the Continental shelves, (bared by falling sea levels) where doubtless there are remanants of past civilizations, or at least human occupation, things are going to get a mite crowded.
If you had waterfront property, you will be up hill from all that now.
Given a choice between the two scenarios, and keeping in mind that living in North Dakota has taught me that it is easier to stay warm where it is warm, that despite discomfort, heat is survivable, and cold not so much, I'd take a chance with the possibility that the climate is warming over inducing cold, cold which may well be added to a natural downtrend in temperatures and which will kill.
It is the ultimate human folly to tamper with a dynamic system we do not understand well enough to predict, especially when our flawed understanding of that system relies on questionable data taken over an incredibly short term, when compared with the life of the system.
To do so in a manner in which the (unpredictable) results could possibly invoke the worst-case scenario for the species is stupidity at its finest.
I don't think that's a good idea.......There are certain things in nature that should be left alone and this is one of them.
A FOOL and his money are soon parted!
Hey Billie,
Try playing with Mother Nature along with all your little friends who all of you now believe you’re God, and she will blow you straight to hell.
It’s a promise.
I think Bill should invest in tin foil hats to reflect the sun. We’ll know every liberal by their tin foil hat.
What will happen to the Dolphins and fish that get sucked up in the seawater? Starkist should build a factory next to the pump.
"Commence Operation... Vacu-suck."
I have come to the conclusion that elitists like Gates, Ted Turner, Soros, et al, want to kill off the vast majority of us so they can rule over the survivors in a “pristine” renewed earth. Who would have believed that the old “The Wild Wild West” TV series with its hairbrained schemes by Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless to depopulate the world would become prophetic?
Just in case anyone was wondering, you can be smart and still be a douche.