Posted on 05/11/2010 7:49:38 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Boffins want to curb climate change by building a $7bn fleet of 1,900 ships to crisscross the oceans as each sucks up ten tons of seawater per second and blasts it a kilometer into the sky to create clouds to absorb sunlight and cool the earth.
And Bill Gates is funding them. No, really.
The Times Online reports that a San Francisco research group with the cloudy name of Silver Lining has received $300,000 from the billionaire mosquito terrorist and tiny-nuke pusher to fund research into the aforementioned geoengineering project.
Sailing over a school of sardines is not recommended (source: Inhabitat)
The Times notes that the US and UK scientists involved in the project witnessed the wimpiness of climate change–fighting agreements (or lack of same) coming out of last year's Copenhagen conference, and decided that it'd be global seppuku to wait for international action.
So they're going it alone: Ships + pumps = gushers. Gushers + clouds = cover. Cover = cooling.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
ROFL!
Pi$$ing in the wind!
Good thing there’s no such thing as “unintended consequences” or this would frighten me.
Will children be allowed to play in these giant sprinklers?
Hey, Bill, you should have been named dick, f’n dick!
Some day people will laugh about this crazy “science” the way we do when we see pictures of people strapping “wings” to their arms and leaping off a cliff in an attempt to fly.
So how much energy will these ships use propelling themselves across the ocean and a constant stream of sea water 1 km in to the air?
Or will it all be done with “magic”?
I like it.
Yes.
I mean, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Are they powered by coal?
I guess he didn’t get the memo.
Which proves that yes, even Bill Gates can have more money than sense...
Unbelieveable. I believe these quacks are going to actually create a climate disaster someday with their crackpot science. Ugh.
Well, he certainly has the cash to chuck, don’t he??
“A fool and his money are soon parted.”
It sucks, and it blows. Wouldn’t expect less from ol’ Bill.
Bill Gates pays for ‘artificial’ clouds to beat greenhouse gases
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Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire, is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every second and spray it upwards. This would seed vast banks of white clouds to reflect the Sun’s rays away from Earth.
The British and American scientists involved do not intend to wait for international rules on technology that deliberately alters the climate.
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Other types of geoengineering, such as mimicking volcanoes by using aircraft to spray reflective sulphate particles in the stratosphere, would have much longer effects on weather patterns.
Stephen Salter, Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design at the University of Edinburgh, said that there was no need to wait for regulations because the trials would not add chemicals to the atmosphere. But Sir David King, former chief scientific adviser to the Government, said that experiments with potential consequences beyond national borders needed international regulations. He told The Times: “I do not see any geoengineering solution which does not have unintended consequences or is not far too expensive.”
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paul clark wrote:
I bet Larry Ellison (of Oracle) already has one. He likes ships and boats.
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http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
at 4:44 he discusses a role for vaccinations in population reduction: “If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower [global population] by perhaps 10 or 15 per cent.”
Of course, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is one the largest providers of vaccination programs in the third world, so the implications are chilling.