Scientists suggest a giant sunshade in the sky could solve global warming

The Guardian ^ | April 5, 2018 | by Peter Beaumont

[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.

[editor-surveyor]

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Buffoons best describes these grant-grubbing fools.

[bmwcyle]

What Operation Solar Shield is not working?

[jimmygrace]

I like it! Even though it is a hoax, at least it gets people thinking about a technical solution rather than a stupid Marxist stoneage solution. Man-made climate change should be a source of pride, not a dirty word. It is the invention of fire, shelter, refrigeration, air conditioning, etc.

[The Great RJ]

Instead of wasting $400,000 on a pipe dream solution to a non existent problem, consider how many wells could be drilled with that money giving people in places like Haiti safe drinking water so they don’t die of dysentery or cholera?

[zencycler]

I think this creates a dilemma for the leftists:

If the project works then it undercuts their push to say that the only solution to climate change is to dramatically reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.

But if the project doesn’t work, then how is it possible that humans can unintentionally affect the climate in one direction, but cannot intentionally affect the climate in the other? That undercuts their claim that it is us humans that cause most of the warming, which also means significant reductions in fossil fuel usage won’t have much of an effect.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

And all the space junk in Earth orbit, cruising at about 17k mph, will make Swiss cheese out of it in fast fashion.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

So the GW Libtards want to “remove the cause...but not the symptom.” Smart. Not.

[justa-hairyape]

Yes. But of course. The people with the least, have the most to lose. Ah. The mind of a progressive. Wired up backwards.

[Vermont Lt]

We would no more than get the giant sunshade up, and there will be a cataclysmic volcano explosion that tosses up a natural sunshade.

Then warming will be the least of our problems.

[R_Kangel]

"Scientists suggest a giant sunshade in the sky could solve global warming..."

..... So are they actually admitting the Sun is the culprit of Global Warming? (Well .... When it was Warming)

[teeman8r]

The sky will be partly Joy Behar with a 30% chance of rain.

What if we put depends on her before sending her up, would that cut the chance of rain to 20%?

[9422WMR]

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[Magnum44]

why don’t they just move the earth?

I am blocking you out

[JimRed]

How about we all just turn on our AC and open the windows? That would be just as effective!

[JimRed]

I would suggest something cheaper: tin foil hats for GW believers

Can't find any tin foil, only that second-rate aluminum stuff!

[Magnum44]

Here is a prototype of the giant sun shade being flown in space as seen from the Earth...

[Crucial]

This reminds me of the second Highlander movie. They tried to do the same thing but everyone started dying.

[BuffaloJack]

Fake-Scientists

[Gumdrop]

Oh, NO! Imagine if you just spent thousands of dollar on Solar panels?

[Magnum44]

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

You can tune a piano but you cant tunafish...