White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by reflecting back sunlight

[Elderberry]

CNBC by Catherine Clifford 10/13/2022

Key Points

•   The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is coordinating a five-year research plan to study ways of modifying the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth in order to temporarily temper the effects of global warming.

•   There are several kinds of sunlight-reflection technology being considered, including stratospheric aerosol injection, marine cloud brightening and cirrus cloud thinning.

•   Stratospheric aerosol injection involves spraying an aerosol like sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, and because it has the potential to affect the entire globe, often gets the most attention.

•   While arguments of moral hazard have handicapped research efforts, the idea is getting more urgent attention in the worsening climate crisis.

The White House is coordinating a five-year research plan to study ways of modifying the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth to temper the effects of global warming, a process sometimes called solar geoengineering or sunlight reflection.

The research plan will assess climate interventions, including spraying aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space, and should include goals for research, what’s necessary to analyze the atmosphere, and what impact these kinds of climate interventions may have on Earth, according to the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Congress directed the research plan be produced in its spending plan for 2022, which President Joe Biden signed in March.

Some of the techniques, such as spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, are known to have harmful effects on the environment and human health. But scientists and climate leaders who are concerned that humanity will overshoot its emissions targets say research is important to figure out how best to balance these risks against a possibly catastrophic rise in the Earth’s temperature.

Getting ready to research a topic is a very preliminary step, but it’s notable the White House is formally engaging with what has largely been seen as the stuff of dystopian fantasy. In Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction novel, “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave in India kills 20 million people and out of desperation, India decides to implement its own strategy of limiting the sunlight that gets to Earth.

Chris Sacca, the founder of climate tech investment fund Lowercarbon Capital, said it’s prudent for the White House to be spearheading the research effort.

More: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/what-is-solar-geoengineering-sunlight-reflection-risks-and-benefits.html

[aligncare]

Lunacy conceived by lunatics—without any tangible evidence it’s even necessary; and, an infuriating waste of public money—without the public’s consent. If they are going to do something this asinine there should be legislative approval for it.

[mountaineer]

It's so hard to tell whether this is pure insanity, or insanity with a large dose of evil.

[Free Vulcan]

Given their penchant for population reduction, I trust this about as much as Vinnie and Tommy telling the cops they only do interest free loans.

[Wingnut]

A solution in search of a problem?

[Smokin Joe]

A solution in search of a problem?

Worse. A problem presented as a solution for something that isn't a problem.

But I bet they haven't considered that a reduction in sunlight means a reduction in photosynthesis, which means less food from the bottom of the food chain upwards.

(or have they?)

But to produce the same amount of food, more 'fossil fuels' would have to be consumed, adding more 'greenhouse gases'.

In the meantime, people starve, shivering in the dark.

P.S. Chemtrails, anyone?

[LMAO]

I remember during the 1970s, when global cooling was all the rage and the next Ice Age was just around the corner, there were some scientists talking about doing things like putting soot on the ice caps to absorb more sun and prevent the next Ice Age or delay it

[EdinVA]

The estimated price tag has gone up since then. The current estimate is that it would cost $10 billion per year to run a program that cools the Earth by 1 degree Celsius

meh... a drop in the bucket... I am sure we can spend more than that...   

[GtHawk]

I can't imagine anything worse than a bunch of religious fanatics that don't actually know how the Earth works implementing insane experiments that affect a large segment of the Earth's population. This is just a recycled idea by a bunch of morons sucking at the government teat.

[DefiantMassRINO]

There is no climate crisis.  The climate is fine.  These nitwits cannot accept than mankind is not the ulitmate omnipotent power in the universe.

That money would be better spent on more resiliant building codes, infrastructure, and restoration of natural elements that mitigate natural disaster damage.

 

If they want to cool the Earth, all they have to do is nuke some volcanoes.  We've already paid for the nukes (sunk cost).  The television tells me that a Yellowstone Super-Eruption would do the job.

[Hoodat]

So the White House is admitting that sunlight causes global warming, and not the oil industry?

[Bigun]

Just one more way to drain the public treasury into private pockets. 

[BellyAche]

 Stratospheric aerosol injection involves spraying an aerosol like sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, and because it has the potential to affect the entire globe, often gets the most attention. ?????   What?????

We'd all be guinea pigs!!! (Unless we are already?)

Re-stock (check expiration dates) your bunkers! 

[Hoodat]

Stratospheric aerosol injection involves spraying an aerosol like sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, and because it has the potential to affect the entire globe, often gets the most attention. ?????   What?????

These same leftist idiots have been fighting against SO₂ emissions for decades, at least in the US.  In China, not so much.

Not only is SO₂ a greenhouse gas, it turns to acid when contacting water.  Leftist idiots.

[Fishrrman]

GT:
"I can't imagine anything worse than a bunch of religious fanatics that don't actually know how the Earth works implementing insane experiments that affect a large segment of the Earth's population"

For an interesting film about the consequences of an attempt to prevent global "warming", see the film "Snowpiercer".

It can be "found", if you know where to "look".

[christian]

mountaineer:
It's so hard to tell whether this is pure insanity, or insanity with a large dose of evil.

As this 'harmless' experiment could succeed in doubling the temperatures on planet earth, wiping out all life on the then desert planet.  It fits right in with the globalist culling the human herd, except more like exterminating said herd.  Bill Gates could even finance most of it, as it advances his agenda for humanity.  Planet ZERO, (of human life)