Blocking the sun? What could go wrong?
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Massive crop failures and a billion people die.
It’s really stupid considering we’re still in an ice age. A small change could trigger the end to the current interglacial period.
Massive crop failures and a billion people die...
The plan is not that totally far-fetched and can be safeguarded against the dire consequences you envision.
Blocking 100% of sunlight is neither feasible nor desired. The way to do this is with a swarm of smaller satellites which collectively block a small percentage of the total sunlight. This produces a small amount of cooling and if the satellites are in quickly decaying orbits reverses itself if they are not periodically replenished.
Blocking a very small percentage of sunlight would not even be noticeable from the ground.
Many advantages. If crop yields start to decline the warmists will have to admit that they didn't understand something. Maybe they will stop "correcting" the temperature record.
Plus, if GW is real and this works, there would be no need to reduce carbon emissions oh earth. Huge benefit. Of course political pressure would stay high. But there are real benefits to more CO2, and we would be able to reap them.
Best of all, there are very few nations who could launch and manage a swarm of satellites like this. The US would be one, which would cement our position as a world leader even more.