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Scientists suggest a giant sunshade in the sky could solve global warming
The Guardian ^ | April 5, 2018 | by Peter Beaumont

Posted on 04/05/2018 7:32:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: the creation, using balloons or jets, of a manmade atmospheric sunshade to shield the most vulnerable countries in the global south against the worst effects of global warming.

But amid mounting interest in “solar geoengineering” – not least among western universities – a group of scientists from developing countries has issued a forceful call to have a greater say in the direction of research into climate change, arguing that their countries are the ones with most at stake.

Scientists have long known that manmade events like pollution in the atmosphere, smoke from forest fires and volcanic eruptions can create a cooling effect.

That has led scientists at Harvard University to propose their own experiment, which they call “stratospheric controlled perturbation effect”, or SCoPEx for short. It involves using a balloon to test the controversial proposition that aerosols released at a height of 20km in the Earth’s atmosphere can alter the reflective properties of cloud cover.

Now a dozen scholars, from countries including Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, India, Jamaica and Thailand, have joined the debate, arguing in the journal Nature that poor countries should take a lead in the field since they have most to gain or lose from the technology.

The solar geoengineering studies may be helped by a new $400,000 (£284,100) research project, the solar radiation management governance initiative (SRMGI), which is issuing a first call for scientists to apply for finance this week.

The initiative is financed by the Open Philanthropy Project, a foundation backed by Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook, and his wife, Cari Tuna.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh Good Grief! Imaginary science for an imaginary problem. The great scam continues.


21 posted on 04/05/2018 7:50:36 AM PDT by Blennos
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sounds like that would produce the "greenhouse effect" which would make us all freeze to death as they claimed was inevitable back in the early 1970s when I was a pup.

Then, as now, the only cure was to let the self-appointed smart people micromanage our lives and economies.

22 posted on 04/05/2018 7:51:05 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: barbarianbabs

It only gets mor and more bizarre with these people! I’m freezing my behind off here in NY!!!!


23 posted on 04/05/2018 7:52:11 AM PDT by MGunny
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To: 11th_VA

They would have to close it when it rains..unless it’s raining to much.
Or, if we want to flood China or Iran we could tip the umbrella?


24 posted on 04/05/2018 7:53:25 AM PDT by Leep (Make The Swamp Small Again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Actually, there is some interesting theory here. Anyone who has been in the track of a full eclipse notices how the temperature drops quickly in their area. In some situation, *on land*, it is as much as 15F.

While these advocates are entirely thinking of the land, the real change might be over water. Specifically over “El Nino” water, which is hotter than most surface temperatures.

A slowly moving high altitude umbrella might cause the hot ocean water, already giving up heat, to give it up *faster*. And this might eventually reduce the duration of the El Nino.


25 posted on 04/05/2018 7:53:29 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberals have become moralistic, dogmatic, sententious, self-righteous, pinch-faced prudes.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They plan to tinker with a system that is so complex they don’t fully understand it?

Great! What could go wrong?!


26 posted on 04/05/2018 7:53:35 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: TexasGator

“...Scientists have long known that manmade events like pollution in the atmosphere, smoke from forest fires and volcanic eruptions can create a cooling effect...”

Great!!! So now, all we have to do is pollute to cool the earth...

But aren’t all you global warming and green earth yokels screaming about wanting LESS pollution???

YOU are the cause of warming then...LOL

So stupid, you have to laugh at them....


27 posted on 04/05/2018 7:54:18 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These people are witch doctors. Just throw some magic dust into the fire and call it a day.


28 posted on 04/05/2018 7:55:20 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Vigilanteman

I remember when Carl Sagan and the rest of the intelligentsia were wetting their pants about nuclear winter obscuring the sun.


29 posted on 04/05/2018 7:56:11 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: butlerweave

They are going to need a bigger set of shades than they think.


30 posted on 04/05/2018 7:56:21 AM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A giant airdrop of $100 bills over every university in the land would accomplish exactly the same thing.


31 posted on 04/05/2018 7:56:27 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They already have Giant Sunshades in the sky. They are called clouds and they are quite effective. Anyone in the Northeast should already be aware of their effectiveness at reducing temperatures.


32 posted on 04/05/2018 7:57:23 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: barbarianbabs

Don’t give them any ideas!


33 posted on 04/05/2018 7:57:52 AM PDT by Leep (Make The Swamp Small Again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tie a rope to Joy Behar’s leg, and fill her big, empty head with helium.

Solves two problems.


34 posted on 04/05/2018 7:58:34 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Aw, Jeez... (you know the rest)


35 posted on 04/05/2018 7:58:54 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
DON'T MESS with the CORE RULE... "DON'T SCREW with MOTHER NATURE."
36 posted on 04/05/2018 7:58:58 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How about a compromise.
These Scientist never mention this again.
And Trump Builds the wall.


37 posted on 04/05/2018 8:00:41 AM PDT by Leep (Make The Swamp Small Again!)
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To: from occupied ga

Seems like 50 billion pairs of sunglasses
would be just as effective...and cheaper.


38 posted on 04/05/2018 8:01:08 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: KC_Lion
I see you got here first.


39 posted on 04/05/2018 8:02:01 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is a great idea. Think of all the advertising opportunities available on the underside of the screen.


40 posted on 04/05/2018 8:02:32 AM PDT by moovova
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