Posted on 02/02/2024 7:10:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
It’s come to this. With Earth at its hottest point in recorded history, and humans doing far from enough to stop its overheating, a small but growing number of astronomers and physicists are proposing a potential fix that could have leaped from the pages of science fiction: the equivalent of a giant beach umbrella, floating in outer space.
The idea is to create a huge sunshade and send it to a far away point between the Earth and the sun to block a small but crucial amount of solar radiation, enough to counter global warming. Scientists have calculated that if just shy of 2% of the sun’s radiation is blocked, that would be enough to cool the planet by 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 Fahrenheit, and keep Earth within manageable climate boundaries.
The idea has been at the outer fringes of conversations about climate solutions for years. But as the climate crisis worsens, interest in sun shields has been gaining momentum, with more researchers offering up variations. There’s even a foundation dedicated to promoting solar shields.
Proponents say that a sunshade would not eliminate the need to stop burning coal, oil and gas, the main drivers of climate change. Even if greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels were to immediately drop to zero, there’s already excessive heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
A sunshade would help stabilize the climate, supporters of the idea say, while other climate mitigation strategies were being pursued.
“I’m not saying this will be the solution, but I think everybody has to work toward every possible solution,” said Szapudi, the astronomer who proposed tethering a sunshade to an asteroid.
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Maybe so. It might take all of the fossil fuel left on earth to get the thing up there.
A parasol in the summer months, and a magnifier in the winter months to even everything out and make it tropical everywhere all year round. Next we can tackle interstellar radiation issues by creating giant radiation sponges so that we never have to worry about radiation anymore then on to so.ving problems in other galaxies.
A parasol? For what? A non existent problem?
People pushing ideas like this should be thrown into volcanoes.
The people pushing this do not realize they are admitting that warming is caused by the sun.
I have heard some stupid ideas before, but this one is off the charts!
No
What do we have to lose?
There is no climate crisis. Practically everyone has been brainwashed by this. At work I praise an unusually warm winter day and I’m met with furrowed brows...and a comment on “climate change”. Tiresome!
No Sun WE DIE you fools
“Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis?”
Why not a pretty floral bonnet?
The climate is a crisis but the 30 percent increase in murder.. nothing to see here.
I bet you all thought the popularity of taking LSD died with Jerry Garcia didn’t you?
If New York City gets two degrees warmer, how will its Mexican, Central American and Puerto Rican people cope?
Here in Florida, temperatures can easily drop 10 degrees in a few hours later in the day.
The CO2 in the atmosphere isn’t preventing that.
Water vapor is the greenhouse gas that matters.
No, because there is no climate crisis to solve
Question for the cult of climate change. Why is the climate changing on all the planets in the social system?
The Earth is drowning ... in stupidity.
There is no climate crisis. There is only a crisis of intelligence.
I love it
There’s no climate crisis. The people who propose this giant space umbrella are nearly totally insane. Their only remaining plausible bit of sanity is their wanting the US taxpayer to pay for it, because they certainly won’t fund it themselves.
sounds like another instance on some brilliant mind farting an idea without thinking it through
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