Posted on 09/18/2023 7:23:32 AM PDT by JV3MRC
The New York Times seems to get a kick out of pushing, hubris-riddled blather normalizing the ridiculous notion that governments can control Mother Nature to fight climate change.
A Sept. 14 Times guest essay whined that switching to clean energy from fossil fuels wasn’t enough of a radical change to “stave off climate catastrophe.” The essay, which had three co-authors, was adamant that “we desperately need another solution.” Their so-called “solution” was nothing short of cuckoo, and the co-authors even admitted as much: “As crazy as it might sound, geoengineering the oceans by adding iron — in effect, fertilizing them — may offer the best, most effective and most affordable way not just to slow the march of global warming but to reverse its course by directly drawing carbon out of the atmosphere.” The essay called for the U.S. government to immediately start testing the bonkers theory “now before the climate system spins off into an even more disastrous state.”
The new leftist motto, said Climate Depot founder Marc Morano to MRC Business, “seems to be: The government will control the weather, and you will be Happy."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Let's see if the Left is willing to give up their cocktails and drugs.
If you think whales are dying in large numbers now, wait until the left tries to change the world to fight ‘climate change’.
But, isn’t fighting climate change akin to fighting ghosts? Except ghosts are more real.
There should be enough sunken ships from ww2 to address
the catastrophic catastrophe of iron poor ocean waters.
They’ll try anything to Grab our money
In October 1859, Thomas Austin released 24 wild rabbits from England for hunting purposes, believing "The introduction of a few rabbits could do little harm and might provide a touch of home, in addition to a spot of hunting."
These fools are dangerous. When Democrats get elected, lunatics make policy. These are the “experts” that they will cite.
Send all the mad leftist scientists to the Mars colony.
In space nobody can hear you whine.
;-)
Geoengineering of the only planet where humans live strikes me as a really, really bad idea. Processes on that scale can’t be stopped or reversed quickly when the (inevitable) unintended consequences happen.
Try it somewhere else first.
> geoengineering the oceans by adding iron <
Great idea! But iron is never found in its elemental state. It is always found bound up with oxygen. So a huge amount of energy will be needed to run the furnaces that extract the iron from its ore.
Where will all that energy come from? It will have to be energy over and above that used now to process iron to make steel. I’m working on this. And I hope that if my idea is stupid and impractical enough I’ll get a big government grant.
Each iteration becomes more retarded.
Man’s hubris is infinite.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Let’s just cut to the chase and get to the real problem! Self sacrifice, restrictions, Abortion and euthanasia have not been enough to prevent Climate Change. We now need to go to step number two, asking for Volunteers. A statement of your personal sacrifice will be posted for all to admire your courage.
Please help because we don’t want to go to step number three!
Signed CCC (climate change communist)
They’re after my rum now, too? My light bulbs, gas stove, and gas heater aren’t enough for them? Now they want MY RUM, too?!!
What @holes.
“But, isn’t fighting climate change akin to fighting ghosts? Except ghosts are more real.”
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Excellent. Noted, saved and bookmarked for future use. Danka.
These idiots have no idea what they are doing.
Let’s just experiment on all of humanity. What could go wrong?
People should fly, as I have more than once, from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia. You will spend 14 hours, at nearly 500 miles per hour, flying over a Pacific Ocean so vast, its gigantic size is astonishing.
There is no need to “fix” the oceans. This is so mindless as to be completely laughable.
Indeed. This is just like "green" energy and EVs. We've got a hydrocarbon-based transportation system that has gradually evolved for 163 years since the four-stroke engine was first patented by Alphonse Beau de Rochas in 1861. They want to throw it all away and build a new government-mandated system from scratch in a decade or two.
These idiots have no clue how complex systems are created and how they evolve. Worse, they have no clue whatsoever of unintended consequences. When you do R&D, lab tests, pilot scale evolution, and demonstration projects, you can identify and correct course when you identify bad results and outcomes. They want to skip over all that and jump right to the end program without even thinking about unintended consequences.
The potential unintended consequences and inability to reverse course could easily wipe out mankind.
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