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Posted By Amabaie 8 months ago in Science & TechnologyThere is a “Plan B” to slow climate change and cool the earth almost overnight via massive human interventions. Among their science-fiction-style ideas: the deployment of millions of lenses the size of doughnuts in geo-stationary orbit between the earth and the sun, the creation of vast banks of artificial clouds over the world’s oceans, covering deserts with reflective material, and Keith’s preferred solution—seeding the stratosphere with sulphate or other particles. All schemes designed to send a portion of the sun’s rays back into the cosmos, and buy politicians, business and the public time to finally get serious about cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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engineer8 months ago
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The only way we can achieve climate change is by humans making their lives much more simple and giving up the gadgets, cars, McMansions, settling in densely populated areas where mass transit would be easily obtainable. Man is overimdulgent
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alakazam8 months ago
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Wow!!!
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Do you have any Idea what kind of experiments have gone on?
http://www.haarp.net/
"-this invention provides the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the Earth's atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the power injection level particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and better controlled than heretofore accomplished by the prior art, particularly by detonation of nuclear devices of various yields at various altitudes... "
Heterodyning the atmosphere is probably a bad idea. Unless someone has refined the work of Tesla into a practical and safe technology.
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Mikunited8 months ago
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These ideas are interesting in the lab,or in computer models,but scary in the "World at large".Nature has created a huge integrated system,any tampering at a fundamental level is fraught with danger.The ideas in this article,will probably cause unforeseen disaster.
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I live in London and the UK appears to be aperfect for the use of greater wind power.It being a windy island,it would,according to over 90% of models,reduce co2,proportionate to it's use.Any attempt to make a greener planet,must start with a massive reduction,in polluting in the first place!
If we all took what we needed from Planet Earth,rather than greedily squandering all it's riches,it would be a good starting point. -
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Lilyputts-Gift-Baskets8 months ago
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In our..(humans) strive to be better and bigger, we have total no regard for the consquenses. I think we all need to go back to when we were little kids, and ask ourselves what would happen if?? Bigger and better, lets take care of all first instead and bigger and better for some and none for others.
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willottica8 months ago
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FTA:For months, he wasn’t able to bring himself to submit it for publication. “I’m worried about opening up Pandora’s box,” he explains.
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I wonder if Einstein felt that way about his work, and if he would take it back if he could.
The article was extremely interesting. If climate scientists are to be believed, and global warming is approaching catastrophic possibility, then having some sort of backup plan would be worthwhile. But the Earth is such a linked system, that small-scale testing will do nothing to predict large-scale effects. I pray that it doesn't come down to using these techniques, and if it does, that they choose the right ones. (The idea of lenses in outer space to reduce the amount of sunlight seems the most promising, because it might be possible to equip them with "off" switches, in case the results are detrimental.
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