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2023-07-02 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
More gloomy news from Biden! White House says it's open to plan that would BLOCK sunlight from hitting surface of the Earth in bid to limit global warming
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Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-02 00:45|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ]  Top

#1 I think the [Putin, Iran, NKor...] nuclear winter will take care of that.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-02 05:16||   2023-07-02 05:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Zelensky warns of 'serious threat' at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant amid fears Putin's troops are preparing to blow up the facility - as Russia launchses overnight drone attack on Kyiv after a 12-day break
Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-02 06:20||   2023-07-02 06:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey, they're already in the dark, and think the rest of us should join them.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-07-02 09:46||   2023-07-02 09:46|| Front Page Top

#4 a relatively low cost global cooling measure would be to mix more mica into asphalt road surfaces

in theory, the cooler surface would also deteriorate somewhat more slowly

There was an effort underway on this during the W administration but it was pretty small scale and I don't think they were able to fund the monitoring needed to establish the actual impacts.
Posted by lord garth  2023-07-02 10:25||   2023-07-02 10:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Global warming - meh.
Global cooling - ice age
Posted by Mercutio 2023-07-02 10:26||   2023-07-02 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 I should have noted that the mica mix would produce a surface with a reflectivity of about 15% as opposed to new asphalt surface having a reflectivity of about 3%
Posted by lord garth  2023-07-02 10:27||   2023-07-02 10:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Or you can set off Yellowstone.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-07-02 11:15||   2023-07-02 11:15|| Front Page Top

#8 The fact it can be done but not undone should give pause. Not that gerbil worming zealots have any sense of reason.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-02 11:26||   2023-07-02 11:26|| Front Page Top

#9 You wouldn't trust most of these idiots with your car keys and they want to ask you to trust them with permanently blocking out sunlight?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-07-02 11:45||   2023-07-02 11:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Isn't there something called the Clean Air Act that prohibits this stuff?

Or is that irrelevant (pending Supreme Court review) if it interferes with something Joe wants to do?
Posted by Tom 2023-07-02 12:51||   2023-07-02 12:51|| Front Page Top

#11 I actually did some research on this years ago.

While you want sunlight on cultivated areas, it is actually possible to increase the reflectivity of the planet by treating some areas which don't need the sun, e.g., parking lots, rooftops of buildings, canals. Oceans are an interesting area where some decrease in sunlight a few hours a day wouldn't be a problem.
Posted by lord garth  2023-07-02 12:55||   2023-07-02 12:55|| Front Page Top

#12 ...Lemme see if I got this straight:

1) "We need to go solar powered EVERYTHING!"
2) "We're going to cut the amount of sunlight reaching the solar powered everything."

These people are mad, and they're going to take us with them.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2023-07-02 13:13||   2023-07-02 13:13|| Front Page Top

#13 I don't think anyone anticipated a world where the rich and powerful try to make the planet uninhabitable for everyone else.
Posted by Angstrom 2023-07-02 13:49||   2023-07-02 13:49|| Front Page Top

#14 I think this is a California super train initiative. The point isn’t to actually complete the project, but rather to get money flowing to favored people with skimming plus kickbacks. In the end nothing useful will be achieved and useless facilities will remain - sort of like hosting the Olympics.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-02 13:50||   2023-07-02 13:50|| Front Page Top

#15 JUST SAYING

Seem to remember Signs of the Apocalypse lists this as one of the end of times.

"Fourth seal: Angel blows the trumpet and 1/3 of the sun, and the moon will turn dark"
Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-02 15:23||   2023-07-02 15:23|| Front Page Top

#16 I look forward to the 572 years of EPA/NEPA review:

"Progress is being made. We request boodle in the next budget"
Posted by Frank G 2023-07-02 16:42||   2023-07-02 16:42|| Front Page Top

#17 Even if it was launched does any 'warmist' proponent understand that we are in a Interglacial during an Ice Age? The stupidity boggles the mind.
Posted by magpie 2023-07-02 18:06||   2023-07-02 18:06|| Front Page Top

#18 We have seen bad ideas gone rogue, before.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-02 19:30||   2023-07-02 19:30|| Front Page Top

#19 If you tried to swim across that you would die. Hopefully Tic Toc will not go there.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-02 20:54||   2023-07-02 20:54|| Front Page Top

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