Eco Baloney: Bloomberg Opinion Editor Suggests Blotting ‘Out the Sun’ to Fight Warming

[rangerrebew]

Eco Baloney: Bloomberg Opinion Editor Suggests Blotting ‘Out the Sun’ to Fight Warming
Joseph Vazquez
February 3rd, 2022 11:32 AM

 
A Bloomberg Opinion editor actually suggested humanity just blot out the sun to fight global warming.

Bloomberg Opinion Editor Michael Newman wrote a senseless blog headlined, “What if We Blotted Out the Sun to Fight Global Warming?” He probably subconsciously realized the suggestion was insane, as he hedged in his subheadline: “It’s risky, but then again the path we’re on now may be even riskier.” Newman called “solar geoengineering” one of the “great hopes” to “stop or slow climate change.” He explained the idea as “an attempt to figure out a way to cool the planet by deflecting some of the sun’s rays before they reach us humans.” Newman based his argument on an equally absurd article by Bloomberg Opinion columnist Clara Ferreira Marques headlined: “Solar Geoengineering Research Is a Risk Worth Taking.”

As Newman summarized, “Clara argues it’s ‘terrifying and terrible in the way that chemotherapy is: We don’t want it, but can we deny ourselves the possibility?’” But Newman undercut himself by admitting that “The science isn’t yet there,” and that “a group of scientists argue it should be banned now — and they are not wrong that it is a risky and last-resort proposition.” Or, perhaps dimming the thing that makes life possible on Earth is just as crazy as it sounds, and Newman pushing it as a solution makes no sense at all.

Climate Depot founder Marc Morano slapped down Newman’s blot “out the sun” as a “last-resort” argument in comments emailed to MRC Business. Morano referenced his book Green Fraud (2021), which pointed to a Newsweek article from April 28, 1975 showing how climate change extremists advocated for “melting the arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot” to stave off global cooling. According to Morano, Newman’s argument is “a redo of the 1970s. Before fossil fuels caused global warming, fossil fuels caused global cooling and the ice age in the 1970s!”

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2022/02/03/eco-baloney-bloomberg-opinion-editor-suggests-blotting-out

[rangerrebew]

Then governments should delete any mention of the sun so people never ask about it again, not for their own health, not for crops, not for trees, not for nothin!  Then global warming will be solved.  But they had better get hot, in a manner of speaking because Leonard Dicaprio says we have only 9 years before we bake to death.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Wasn't one of the greatest species extinction events ever occurred when ash from volcanoes blotted out the sun's rays and caused life on earth to be almost totally wiped out?

[Free Vulcan]

So he's admitting that the Sun has the ultimate impact on planetary temperatures?

[rangerrebew]

So he's admitting that the Sun has the ultimate impact on planetary temperatures?

While he is doing that, he would never admit it.  This is pure Cloward/Piven which is nothing more than muddying the waters to add confusion to the subject.