US Urges Scientists to Block Out Sun

The Sydney Morning Herald ^ | January 29, 2007 | David Adam and Liz Minchin

[Reeses]

We need a Constitutional amendment, and a global treaty, outlawing attempts by governments and global organizations to interfere with the climate.

Interfering with CO2 emissions is intended to manage the climate, though passively and expensively. Managing Earth's reflectivity with cloud control is a cheaper and more active technology, with the advantage of being more localized, safe, and nontoxic.

We should fund experiments to build up our toolbox of climate management methods, especially local scope technologies that do not need UN oversight. But we shouldn't actually meddle with the climate until we need to address real vs. hypothetical problems. Currently global warming is so tiny it can only be detected by making millions of temperature readings over many years and analyzing them with statistics. It is so small it is beyond human perception.

[Eastbound]

". . . reflective dust pumped into the atmosphere . . . "

Science catching up with myth, huh? ;>

[Myrddin]

This reads like something from Zachariah Sitchin's "12th Planet". Sitchin claims his work derives from study of Sumerian tablets and scrolls. It details efforts of the Nephalim to mine gold to create a fine particulate suspension in the atmosphere as shielding from external sources of radiation. Supposedly humans were "engineered" as manual laborers to mine gold on earth to provide for this need. It's amusing to see similar ideas being floated here.

[Myrddin]

My value judgement when you're talking about planetary life support systems is that 10 per cent, my God, that's Russian roulette with a Luger."

That's really very good odds. If the first round isn't live, there's a 100% chance that it won't fire at all.

[hosepipe]

GIANT MIRRORS?... (laughing pounding the keyboard)...
Democrats? (Eddie Murphy laugh)..

[jwalsh07]

Possible techniques include putting a giant screen into orbit, thousands of tiny, shiny balloons, or microscopic sulfate droplets pumped into the high atmosphere to mimic the cooling effects of a volcanic eruption.

Oh yeah, thousands of tiny balloons will do the job. What are these people smoking?

[Eastbound]

"It details efforts of the Nephalim to mine gold. . ."

Years ago I read an AP story which reported the remains of an ancient goldmine in central Africa. Testing showed the timbers to be at least 245,000 years old. Also kept an clipping of a story reporting the existence of a very large hunk of gold, some platinum, (larger than a football field) orbiting in the asteroid belt.

[Myrddin]

Years ago I read an AP story which reported the remains of an ancient goldmine in central Africa. Testing showed the timbers to be at least 245,000 years old. Also kept an clipping of a story reporting the existence of a very large hunk of gold, some platinum, (larger than a football field) orbiting in the asteroid belt.

Interesting how those numbers support Zachariah's writing. Even so, it's hard to get too worked up about things that happen in time spans that are multiples of your own expected lifespan.

[unixfox]

Heck, anybody can block out the sun just by holding their thumb up to it. Bunch of idiots.

[unixfox]

I think I'm gonna start a Global Warming insurance company.

With all of the suckers that believe in it I should be wealthy beyond my dreams. Might as well cash in while I can.

[denydenydeny]

So they're admitting that it IS the Sun that is warmning things, not humanity?

No, the GW cult emphatically rejects that the sun is the cause of anything, that's why they react to ideas like the one proposed in the article by putting their fingers in their ears and saying "la la la, I can't hear you."

[Eastbound]

So is a 'shar' one year or 3,600 years?

[Hot Tabasco]

It's not nice to fool with mother nature......

[hinckley buzzard]

Upon first reading, I thought this was of Scrappleface origin

How do you play Russian roulette with a Luger? Don't you need a revolver?

[Arizona Carolyn]

These idiots are so busy rewriting history they've forgotten the lessons of the mini-ice age and how it affected the world clear up until the mid-1800's.

[kickme]

Oh like dude.....the toasting (aka nukin') of Iran will take care of global warming. With respect....doods.

[Myrddin]

So is a 'shar' one year or 3,600 years?

3600 earth years. A single orbit of "Niburu" through the solar system.

[Southerngl]

>>>A defective mirror? What's that? You look up into the sky and see Algor or Laurie David looking back?>>>

HA!!

>>>Oh, deflective...>>>

Thanks for correcting my type. Sometimes I get so caught up in the stupidity of mankind, my fingers rebel.

[myknowledge]

And an execution warrant for Mother Gaia.

[myknowledge]

God controls mother nature.