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White House pulls inspiration from 'Operation Dark Storm' in The Matrix film to combat global warming: Official want to spray particles into the stratosphere to limit sunlight hitting Earth - but it could cost $10 BILLION per year
2022-10-19
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Way to trigger a mini-ice age, guys. Thank goodness this is only at the proposal for research stage.
  • The White House's five-year plan to tackle global warming involves spraying particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space

  • This is a similar technique used in The Matrix 4 animated film to block the sun in order to slow advances of machines trying to take over the world

  • Officials want to research the possible uses of spraying sulfur dioxide

  • This gaseous pollutant has reflective properties and when released at large amounts from volcanoes, cools temperatures
Posted by:Skidmark

#21  Humans are destroying the planet, and we'll destroy the planet to prove it!
Posted by: Angstrom   2022-10-19 19:43  

#20  We're already expecting a bad winter and that cuts the growing seasons, you pull this crap and we might be lucky to see food grown in greenhouses.

What do you think their intent is? Greenhouses? Think again.
Posted by: Pheans Sproing5936   2022-10-19 15:49  

#19  Are we having fun yet?

Bread Prices Skyrocket as Inflation Grips Europe
The elevated costs of flour, nuts, eggs and even electricity are forcing bakers to increase their prices and cut their production.
Posted by: Black Charlie   2022-10-19 12:40  

#18  Can we do the spray particles and ditch the whole Ukraine funding thing? Maybe we can spray Cheeze Wiz instead for cheaper.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-10-19 12:37  

#17  Why do these ideas always come from Entertainment, and then always from The Bad Guy or Plot Device of Dystopian Future?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-10-19 12:04  

#16  I don't think the 10 billion will be spent putting material into the sky to block the sun. They'll pay for launches because of the optics, and then pocket the rest of the cash each year.

Then they will start to accurately talk about the global temperatures and credit their scam with the end of climate change, but insist the change will reverse or get worse then ever if we ever stop spending the 10 billion a year!.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-10-19 10:52  

#15  I remember a plan to cover the oceans in iron oxide to prevent global cooling.

Can't we please find a cure for insanity (yes I know a .45 will do it, but...)
Posted by: AlanC   2022-10-19 10:51  

#14  
Remember it is only 7,830 km from Minot MM Silo to Moscow
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-10-19 10:07  

#13  They’re fucking insane.

Get these lunatics away from the nuclear trigger
Posted by: Elmomp Ulaimp6887   2022-10-19 09:53  

#12  Really cool, NN2N1. Thanks.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-10-19 09:43  

#11  
Ere did this world hang,
and thousands upon it liv'd.
But some pestilence, some... thang,
to the rulers wickedness gived.
And now it just hangs there,
all life hath been seived.



Posted by: Dron66046   2022-10-19 09:40  

#10  

Pick your weapon and Nuke your Favorite RUSSIAN City
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-10-19 09:29  

#9  What happens if the nukes fall? Expert reveals which areas of London, New York and other cities will be instantly obliterated by Putin strike…and where you'd stand best chance of surviving
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-10-19 08:45  

#8  We don’t need this Bidet’s nuclear winter will do the same thing
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom    2022-10-19 07:52  

#7  BTW:
Given the push to cremate instead of bury and the fact Crops and Vegetables NEED the SUN grow.

Have the LSD's started building Soylent Green Factories yet?
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-10-19 07:51  

#6  
The LSD's want Solar Power and Clean Energy and they also want to reduce sunlight that is the source that generates that power?

Seriously, this isn't a Babylon Bee joke, is it?
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-10-19 07:37  

#5  Yes, I've read that. I loved how the heat was turned off at night to 'save' energy and essentially weed out old and sick people by hypothermia.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2022-10-19 07:25  

#4  ...There's an excellent sci-fi novel called Fallen Angels where the greens finally get their way and end 'global warming'...only to find that 'global warming' was the only thing keeping the worst ice age of all at bay...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2022-10-19 07:12  

#3  
The Wachowskis have proven it,
it's gonna be fun.
We new age scientists,
with our hair in a bun.
We're going to finally
tear gas the everlovin' Sun!
It worked in the movie, ok?
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-10-19 04:10  

#2  Imagine the lawsuits: "Global Terraforming causes Monsoon to fail for decade in Southeast Asia!" (Prove that it doesn't cause Bad Weather --I dare you!)
Posted by: magpie   2022-10-19 00:53  

#1  OMFG, are they F*CKING INSANE?!! Do they want a frigging ice age? Shit like this is how you get one. They wanna terraform something to be perfect, shove them all in a rocket and dump them on Venus. After they demonstrate how to bring about Utopia, maybe then they can try here. We're already expecting a bad winter and that cuts the growing seasons, you pull this crap and we might be lucky to see food grown in greenhouses.

Just No.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2022-10-19 00:39  

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