Posted on 02/28/2023 1:00:54 PM PST by JV3MRC
Politico is apparently suffering from a bout with confusion. The liberal outlet is floating “sav[ing] the planet” by blocking — *checks notes* — the thing that literally gives the planet life.
Politico ran a headline promoting the mad science of solar geoengineering like it’s a legitimate solution to solve the leftist climate change boogeyman: “Block the sun, save the planet?” Politico reporter Arianna Skibell immediately hedged the insane headline by admitting that “[b]locking the sun’s rays to limit global warming has long been considered too dangerous to even study,” but then pivoted to promote woke drivel: “But 60 top scientists are breaking from their colleagues and calling for research into what they call solar radiation modification.” The method, said Skibell, involves “spraying aerosol particles into the atmosphere that would reflect sunlight away from the Earth, thereby slowing warming.”
Nowhere does Skibell mention the human cost that such an asinine idea could inflict. As Forbes magazine put it in a May 2022 article, “Major changes to the global climate [through geoengineering] could create unlivable conditions, negatively impacting densely populated regions, consequently displacing thousands.” The Scientific American editorial board noted in 2008 that “[t]he sulfates would slow or reverse the recovery of the ozone layer; they might also reduce global rainfall, and the rain that did fall would be more acidic. And those are just the foreseeable effects.” Strange how Skibell didn’t even address the potential negative impact so-called “solar radiation modification” would have on one of the left’s favorite renewables: solar energy.
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I, for one, welcome the Vitamin D Rays.
The plants agree.
What’s truly hilarious is that it’s raining and snowing heavily here in the West as it has now for the last 5 months, and will go down as one of the wettest / coldest winters in decades.
The Climate is changing! Gettin’ cold and snowy. Ain’t we sposedta celebrate?
Fake problem with a Fake solution which will only kill more people....which was the objective in the first place.
Giant umbrellas to stop flooding
Taxpayer funded of course
I am wondering.
How much, and what kind, dope they are using?
F these people.
There are always unintended consequences.
If it were me I would say Throw them into the bottomless pit
But, in the 1970s it was claimed pollution was causing sunlight to be reflected back into space causing a COMING ICE AGE!
There were plans to mine coal, grind it to dust and spray it on the ice fields to increase absorption from the sun!
Interesting note. On 9-11 when all aircraft were grounded the earth temperature of the US actually went up due to no contrails blocking the sun!
“...spraying aerosol particles into the atmosphere that would reflect sunlight away from the Earth, thereby slowing warming...”
It’s not good to f*ck with G-d.....
Ship the lot of them to Enewetak Atoll. Then test.
The planet needs to be saved from these morons.
"We know what we know, we know what we don't know, we don't know what we know, we don't know what we don't know" - Donald Rumsfeld
Sure, block the sun with some non-reversible method like clouding the upper atmosphere with metallic particles and create a 1000 year ice age but hell I’ll bet those folks advocating that already have their hidie-holes ready just in case.
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