Posted on 02/28/2023 8:18:45 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Giant mirrors positioned to reflect sunlight back into space may be needed to meet climate targets, according to a report from the United Nations.
Solar radiation modification (SRM), also known as solar geoengineering, is among the proposals from the UN Environment Programme to use radical technology to avoid a climate emergency.
“SRM is the only known approach that could be used to cool the Earth within a few years,” the report, compiled by an expert panel of climate scientists, stated.
“Climate model simulations consistently show that SRM could offset some of the effects of increasing greenhouse gases on global and regional climate, including carbon and water cycles, but there could be substantial residual or overcompensating climate change at the regional scales.”
The report found that more research is needed to be undertaken in order to better understand the environmental and social impacts of geoengineering technologies.
It is not the first time that space mirrors have been proposed as a way of alleviating the worst effects of climate change, with former US presidential hopeful Andrew Yang notably publishing a plan to geoengineer the planet in 2019.
Inger Andersen, the executive director of the UN Environment Programme, noted that SRM should not be considered a substitute for current targets to reduce emissions.
“Our best bet for a prosperous and equitable future remains putting in the unavoidable hard work to achieve climate stability by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to create a pollution-free planet and societies that live in harmony with nature.”
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I immediately think of the “Don’t Mess with Mother Nature” commercials from the 1970s.
Donate the mirrors you use to admire yourselves.
These are the same folks who brought us all the lock down crap and lies about COVID.
It’s time for the UN to move to a third world hellhole where the people are stupid enough to buy their crap.
Shades of “World out of time” by Larry Niven.🤨
...people think they can outsmart God.
I recently read an article, from a supposedly reputable doctor, who said the ONLY way to effectively treat cardiovascular disease was with statins. He then went on debunking natural remedies...one by one. (I wish I could recall the article for reference)
Your statement won the FR Pulitzer Prize.
No. That’s not how it works. The energy reaching us from the sun is a minute fraction of the energy the sun actually puts out. Energy dilutes as the square of distance from the source. Energy from such a mirror would likewise dilute, so only a minute fraction of the minute fraction would be directed back to the sun . It would have no noticeable affect on solar output
Mess around with Mother Nature and expect unintended consequences!!
Besides toasting airplanes and satellites, and roasting birds, the longest range effects of reflecting sunlight back to the sun may well be a pressure cooker effect of concentrated heat on the surface of the Sun and causing MORE heat and bigger explosions. Until the flame goes out.
Or we could reflect to the Moon, and then turn it into something like a giant greenhouse.
NAGT. Not. A. Good. Thing. People are idiots.
How dare you ? !! /s
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.”
(And because God must have a sense of humor)
And enough adult beverages (Beer) that I don’t kill all of the stupid people that I meet.
solar output
You are of .course correct. And sane. You explained well enough without saying that the proponents are idiots.
The nazi had a plan for wanting to do this.
I don’t know? What could possible go wrong with this scheme? /s
A couple of million square feet of aluminized mylar would weigh next to nothing and could easily be boosted into orbit over the North Pole. Set it perpendicular to the sun and voila - instant shadow over the pole.
It would be better to do it there and/or Antarctica. We wouldn’t want the food producing areas to suffer from lack of sunlight.
Then, when the absence of sunlight starts a new glaciation cycle and the glaciers march south to Chicago, we will have all the ice we need for frozen margaritas on Earth Day.
What could be better than that?
More like Diamonds are Forever if the globalists are defied.
Or both....
I vote both.
If they ever break that is going to be some serious bad luck.
Sounds like the plot for Snow piercer.
so it’s the SUN what causes gloBULL warming change...
More than likely Biden's son and brother will hold the contracts for construction.
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