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Geoengineering - White House proposes blocking sunlight to fight global warming: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
American Thinker ^ | 11/19/2022 | Eric Utter

Posted on 11/19/2022 9:10:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The White House recently announced that it was funding a five-year research plan for a controversial proposal to fight climate change by geoengineering — i.e., technologies and processes that can be used to artificially modify the Earth's climate.

This research would be dedicated specifically to a form of geoengineering known as "solar radiation management," which involves spraying fine aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight away from the Earth.  The hope is that, once the sunlight is reflected, less heat will be generated, and ergo temperatures will go down.  Presto: actual anthropogenic climate change!  A global SPF 100, as it were!

The research reportedly will attempt to model how solar radiation management might impact the atmosphere, as well as assess its viability as a potential technique to be employed to "manage near-term climate risk." 

They're hoping to fight the scourge of climate change by blindly trying to change the climate?  What is it with Democrats?  They're also fighting racism with racial quotas and making race the primary consideration in, well, everything.  That's working well, isn't it?  Next, they'll propose fighting drug abuse by giving out free needles and crack pipes.  Oh wait, they're already doing that.  Why haven't they yet suggested we combat STDs by having indiscriminate sex with as many other people as possible?

Now they're going to "cancel" the sun, without which life on Earth would be impossible?  What could go wrong?!

And would this be a unilateral decision? "Hope the rest of you guys don't mind, but we're blocking the sun! Oops, we didn't expect that! Our bad. Sorry, might be a bit chillier than we'd like for a while!"


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billgates; blockthesun; georgesoros; globalwarming; nuclearwinter; soros; sunlight; whitehouse
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To: Organic Panic
SRM is a speculative form of climate change response. SRM schemes, should they ever be developed and used, would operate by reflecting some amount of incoming solar energy back into space before that energy can be trapped by the gases that produce the greenhouse effect. Think of SRM like a reflective shield, artificially providing regional or global cooling.

Setting aside for the moment potential negative or unintended consequences, increasing the reflectivity of planetary features at any altitude could achieve the cooling goal of SRM.

They really are stupid.

21 posted on 11/19/2022 10:11:28 PM PST by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: SeekAndFind

This article doesn’t mention the best part. The particulate this plan calls for is sulfur dioxide. The stuff coal-fired power plants emit. Particularly dirty ones like China’s.


22 posted on 11/19/2022 10:12:16 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, in case there really is a very dangerous global warming (IF!), this seems to be a better solution than banning fossil fuels and all the idiocies we are supposed to do now!


23 posted on 11/19/2022 10:14:08 PM PST by AZJeep
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To: SeekAndFind

My friend Robert Kennedy, the engineer from Huntsville, not the politician talked to the Russians after the cold war was over about building a Space Sun Shield for this. It was all futuretech at that point, so pre-SpaceX but there was interest from them to shield most of the world but increase their sunlight strength. They wanted a weather machine and to increase their wheat areas land in Ukraine and Siberia.

It’s a lot more closer now as soon as SpaceX Starship is ready. One of the other problems other than cost and scale is that it is one hell of a weapon plus we do probably don’t want to be doing planetary engineering on your sole planet.


24 posted on 11/19/2022 10:51:35 PM PST by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: SeekAndFind

So.....the fiction that was “Snow Piercer” will now become fact?


25 posted on 11/19/2022 11:09:42 PM PST by duckbutt (I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery - T. Jefferson)
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To: SeekAndFind

Imbeciles! They would accomplish their crazy goal by simply repealing the Clean Air Act.


26 posted on 11/19/2022 11:20:04 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerorum delenda sunt.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What could possibly go wrong?


27 posted on 11/19/2022 11:43:46 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: BenLurkin

The voting electorate are stupid, in general. Addicted to blissful ease and mindless pleasure. Don’t expect them to know how to choose, analyze, and demand competent people to run the show.


28 posted on 11/19/2022 11:46:11 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

If ya block sunlight, how do the solar panel thingies work? 😁😁😁


29 posted on 11/19/2022 11:46:53 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

What could possibly go wrong?
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A massive uptic of OCPD.

Oh wait,,,

They’ve been spraying the atmosphere for about 20 years at least already.


30 posted on 11/19/2022 11:52:52 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: SeekAndFind

31 posted on 11/20/2022 12:22:11 AM PST by Bobalu (Elon should buy the Washington Post—and turn it into a newspaper.)
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To: All

What could possibly go wrong is basically this — small changes in the radiation budget (incoming solar energy) might be fairly minor in their effects in the tropical and temperate climate zones, let’s say they manage to reduce the incoming solar radiation by 1%, that would leave our climate colder by perhaps 1-2 C deg, but the big unknown is the effect in higher latitudes which are much more sensitive to rapid changes in climate in relatively small changes of energy budget. That is the main reason I would fear this proposal, and there’s no control planet to test this out before applying it here on earth. You could easily tip the balance rapidly towards the onset of a major glacial advance or an “ice age” climate and once you set that into motion, just stopping the aerosol program will not guarantee a reversal of those effects.

Fortunately I think this fact is well understood by those in the profession and if these proposals go much further they will probably start speaking out against the idea.


32 posted on 11/20/2022 12:35:42 AM PST by Peter ODonnell (If Arizona held the Olympic Games, Usain Bolt would lose to Joe Biden)
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To: SeekAndFind
"White House proposes blocking sunlight to fight global warming: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"


33 posted on 11/20/2022 12:41:02 AM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Those folks, well their just plain STUPID!


34 posted on 11/20/2022 12:43:59 AM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: ClayinVA

An article appeared in Popular Scince magazine about a thin aluminized mylar “web” spun between Earth and the Sun. Only Siberia was mentioned as being the benefactor, and the article appeared about 30-35 years ago.

I’ve mentioned the article here at FR on several occasions.


35 posted on 11/20/2022 2:02:54 AM PST by Does so (It's not OUR guns...It's YOUR sons!)
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To: FreedomPoster

I recall reading articles about the “experts” wanting to coat the ice caps with a mix of coal dust and oil to absorb the solar radiation so as to prevent the coming Ice Age of the 1970’s.

So I guess if this new plan of theirs screws things up we can always go back to the coal/oil thing.


36 posted on 11/20/2022 2:15:59 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: SeekAndFind; Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; Carriage Hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; nascarnation; ...

}{€££ they’ll probably try to spray the clotshot crap thinking that we’ll get those Pure Bloods one way or another.


37 posted on 11/20/2022 2:50:17 AM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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To: rktman

MAybe they are going to put Stacey Abrams fat ass in orbit. That will block anything including the sun’s rays, asteroids, hemmoriods and Democrats


38 posted on 11/20/2022 3:00:46 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: rdcbn1

That is why most have never had a real job. 🙄🙄🙄


39 posted on 11/20/2022 3:02:01 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: LegendHasIt

Bill Gates is already doing it, spraying aluminum and barium compounds out of high flying jets.
uh......... Alex jones please pick up the phone in the lobby
chem trails anyone? from years passed conspiracy theorists and tin foil hat MF’ers


40 posted on 11/20/2022 3:51:44 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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