Harvard creates advisory panel to oversee solar geoengineering project (block sun/cool planet)

Nature.com ^ | 7-30-19 | Jeff Tollefson

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Plans to test a technique that would cool the planet by blocking sunlight are one step closer to reality. Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has created an external advisory panel to examine the potential ethical, environmental and geopolitical impacts of this geoengineering project, which has been developed by the university’s researchers.

Known as the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), the project would involve the release of calcium carbonate particles from a steerable balloon some 20 kilometres above the southwestern United States.

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"Winter is coming"

Insanity is here.

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An implication of the article is that sun is an important factor in weather and climate.

I thought white males living in the US were most responsible for changes in the weather and climate.

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This is the worst of bad ideas.

[Don W]

Likely composed of the students of the geniuses that wanted to spread coal dust on the ice at the poles to reduce earth’s albedo, to counteract the global cooling scare of the 1970’s.

Must keep the populace afraid.

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Someone should name a candy bar after glowbull warming.

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and driving SUVs.

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Maybe “Guck Fore Fever”

[backwoods-engineer]

These geoengineering plans are some of the.most evil schemes of mankind, ever, and that’s saying something. MILLIONS could freeze to death if this goes wrong. I’m trusting the Lord that a) it won’t happen, or b) it won’t work.

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I could see a future war being fought over this. Even nukes being deployed to fight “fake science”.

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Oh boy Harvard an elite brain as ludicrous as Yale

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Intentional air pollution! Throw them in EPA’s jail and lose the key. Then sue them civilly for reducing solar power output!

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Glaciation will be on us any year now.

[no-to-illegals]

Experts equal dog poop. Oh wait, I don’t desire to insult dog poop

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Plastic straws and bags are the real culprits!

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To Harvard, how about no!

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Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation

It's more like something that rhymes with perturbation.

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This is what happens when man’s ego is unchecked. Amazing.

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These nuts are dangerous.

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“Insanity is here.”

I think you have the correct assessment.