Alarmist ‘Scientists’ Want To Blot Out The Sun
A team of climate ‘scientists’ wants to launch enormous umbrellas into space to reduce the Earth’s exposure to the sun and fight ‘climate change’, The New York Times reported Friday.
The underlying idea is that large parasols could be positioned in space such that they marginally reduce the intensity of sunlight the Earth receives and thereby mitigate some global warming, the Times reported.
To block out enough radiation, a single sunshade would need to be approximately the size of Argentina — nearly one million square miles — and would weigh about 2.5 million tons, so scientists are looking to prove the idea could work by first producing a 100-square foot prototype with the help of $10 to $20 million of funding.
Dr. Yoram Rozen, a physics professor and the Asher Space Research Institute’s director at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, is leading the team of scientists pushing the idea, according to the Times.
Because the Argentina-sized umbrella would be too large to feasibly launch into space, his team is hoping to build a set of smaller shades that would diffuse the intensity of the radiation reaching the planet.
“We can show the world, look, there is a working solution, take it, increase it to the necessary size,” Rozen told the Times.
Rozen and his team are still designing the prototype, but they anticipate that they could build it within about three years once they get the required funds, according to the Times.
A full-sized product would cost trillions of dollars, and that expense would likely have to be picked up by many countries (i.e., their taxpayers), Rozen told the Times.
“We at the Technion are not going to save the planet,” Rozen told the Times. “But we’re going to show that it can be done.”
Supporters of the ambitious sunshade idea posit that, if implemented successfully, the world would still need to stop using ‘fossil fuels’ to power the global economy, according to the Times.
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Tom
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Billions of extremely alarmed humans want to blot out the silly, insane scientists.
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Howdy
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This is what I posted about in another article.
Lunatics coming up with crazy ideas in search of a problem, and it isn’t just climate. It’s all one ever hears now.
I know there are still sane science types, but they are lost in the noise.
Where are the innovators, the creatives…
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Bevan Dockery
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Scientists – what scientists? They do not even know that the simple molecule CO2 does not, cannot generate any heat whatsoever so it cannot raise the temperature of anything. Like everything else in the environment it passes on heat energy via conduction, convection and radiation from heat sources to cold sinks thereby moderating the overall temperature.
It is temperature that determines the rate of generation of CO2, not the reverse.
Mind you, if you can raise trillions of dollars from the gullible nations of the World, who cares about the outcome – they will be ultra-rich.
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