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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!"


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


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: rktman

How about publicly naming the idiots in the WH who are proposing these programs? Just curious who they might be.


61 posted on 11/20/2022 5:39:56 AM PST by oldtech
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To: norwaypinesavage

Blocking the sun would not be a good idea for future generations.


What future generations?


62 posted on 11/20/2022 5:40:57 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: oldtech

How about publicly naming the idiots in the WH who are proposing these programs? Just curious who they might be.

Look no further than the guy who bragged about setting up and fixing the 2020 election: Chief of Staff, Ron Klain an ardent climate change activist


63 posted on 11/20/2022 5:45:03 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

Sure, Klain’s got his mitts in this particular announcement, but this is part of a horrific, global effort.


64 posted on 11/20/2022 5:47:04 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

And forty five years ago the same eggheads proposed to mine coal, grind it to dust, mix it with oil and spread it on the glaciers to stop THE COMING ICE AGE which was all the rage in the 1970s.

Now it is glo-bull warming as they try to clean up all the articles written in the 1970s about THE COMING ICE AGE.

https://www.johnlocke.org/climate-experts-believe-the-next-ice-age-is-on-its-way-within-a-lifetime/

From POPULAR SCIENCE, Feb 1980..
PS/What’s News ....
page 73
Changing the weather intentionally or otherwise weather modification..(Earth cooling vs Greenhouse effect)

“Do you suppose we can learn enough, soon enough, to pull off a balancing act with the CO2 blanket saving us from another ice age?”

Meanwhile the last two weeks have been almost as cold as it was back in Thanksgiving 1976. Brutal!


65 posted on 11/20/2022 5:52:32 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (BACK in Facebook Jail for quoting a line from the Dean Martin movie "Rough Night In Jericho.")
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To: 9YearLurker

US is leading this insane effort, with some backing from even more crazy EU people.


66 posted on 11/20/2022 6:05:32 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: rktman

I told my wife years ago that if you want to stop “AGW” take the scrubbers off the coal plant stacks and get back to spewing particulates into the atmosphere. It’s not hard to see that all this supposed warming started right after they started scrubbing plant emissions.

But I do have a question for Joe. Have any of these clowns considered the effect cutting down the amount of sunlight hitting the earth will have on the solar energy we’re all supposed to live on? First, we totally switch to wind and solar. Then we reduce the amount of solar radiation reaching Earth surface. What a bunch of idiots we have ruling over us today.


67 posted on 11/20/2022 6:06:57 AM PST by redangus
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To: SeekAndFind

Government Is Not GOD.


68 posted on 11/20/2022 6:09:09 AM PST by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: DoodleBob

Let’s cut down sunlight while reducing CO2 in the atmosphere. What could possibly go wrong. Let’s see plants need both to grow, and plants produce food and oxygen. So, let’s kill all the plants. Great idea Joe.


69 posted on 11/20/2022 6:10:37 AM PST by redangus
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To: SeekAndFind
And stupidity is a curable disease
70 posted on 11/20/2022 6:11:05 AM PST by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Basically the same as a large volcano going off and blocking out sunlight. The effects:

1. Less solar power generation, due to weaker sunlight intensity.
2. Less rainfall, due to less evaporation of water.
3. Less wind, due to lower temperature* differentials on the planet.

*temperature differentials lead to pressure differentials which cause air to move (wind).

So, less production of alternative power (due to weaker wind and solar energy sources) and likely less food production (due to less rainfall).

Even so, I SUPPORT THE IDEA, because we’re going to get more volcano blowouts whether we like it or not, so we might as well learn the effects of them on our alternative-energy economy.


71 posted on 11/20/2022 6:12:05 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 21 degrees, burrr!)
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To: SeekAndFind
(from the article):" The hope is that, once the sunlight is reflected, less heat will be generated,
and ergo temperatures will go down."

Just more hopeium
to match the computer generated 'Climate Change' hoax.
GIGO !

72 posted on 11/20/2022 6:14:18 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: redangus

For those interested, just after 9-11 when all aircraft were ordered grounded, the temp of the US actually went UP without all the contrails from aircraft.

https://globalnews.ca/news/2934513/empty-skies-after-911-set-the-stage-for-an-unlikely-climate-change-experiment/


73 posted on 11/20/2022 6:14:45 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (BACK in Facebook Jail for quoting a line from the Dean Martin movie "Rough Night In Jericho.")
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To: brookwood

Remove the scrubbers. Thousands of small volcanos running 24/7/365. Screw waiting for Mother Nature.


74 posted on 11/20/2022 6:14:51 AM PST by redangus
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To: PIF

Nah, the UN globalists have been all over this crap for decades. We just contribute some of the leaders and doers.


75 posted on 11/20/2022 6:21:46 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

The result will be mass starvation as crops fail worldwide. Please come soon, Lord Jesus!


76 posted on 11/20/2022 6:22:02 AM PST by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: SeekAndFind

This actually happened in 1816: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

A volcano erupted and spewed so much ash into the air that the sun was partially blocked for a year. So we have some kind of data on this, undoubtably it has happened before in the Earth’s history.


77 posted on 11/20/2022 6:25:44 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: 9YearLurker

the UN globalists have been all over this crap for decades. We just contribute some of the leaders and doers.


Well that may be, but now it seems they are serious and getting ready to do it for real. Before it was just so much posturing.


78 posted on 11/20/2022 6:44:10 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m sure that they can do just as good of a job with this as they did with the covid vaccine. We are overdue for a big volcanic eruption or two. Maybe these fools can help drive us straight into a full on ice age.


79 posted on 11/20/2022 6:44:54 AM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: PIF

It’s all tied in to the global climate change, ESG, carbon credit, CBDC/social credit, depop stuff that they have indeed been taking quite seriously for some time now.

It has taken them decades and decades to strangle the globe administratively.


80 posted on 11/20/2022 6:47:34 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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