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Save Earth by blowing holes in the moon? Moon dust as a sunscreen for Earth
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In the next great environmental cult moment, “The Science” has a plan to explode a 10-billion-kilogram dust cloud off the moon between the Earth and the Sun. Shimmery white moon dust will dim the evil solar rays and “save us from our addiction to fossil fuels” (at least until we run out of Moon). The dust will disperse every couple of weeks, so we just need to keep topping up our global sunscreen by setting the explosives off. At least it probably won’t kill many whales.

The plan involves getting man back on the moon for the first time in fifty years, setting up a moon base, and a permanent mining colony, but (guard your coffee) — it might be cost effective:

Squirting a carefully calculated stream of Moondust from a future lunar station at the right point between the Sun and Earth might be the most cost-effective, risk-free means of keeping our cool until we come to our senses and cut emissions.

— PLOS Climate

But not as cost effective as spending 0.000000001% of that to check the science and blow up a few climate models instead.

https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/save-earth-by-blowing-holes-in-the-moon-moon-dust-as-a-sunscreen-for-earth/
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These people are nuts.
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These people are nuts.

Even people who are nuts can have a grasp on reality once in a while.
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Earth doesn't need a sunscreen.
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Just suppose for a moment, that they got it wrong and plunged the Earth into another ice age.

How would they clean that mess up?

how would they ever manufacture enough winter gear for the folks who live where it's warm?

Especially if they stop oil production like these nuts want to do.
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Just suppose for a moment, that they got it wrong and plunged the Earth into another ice age.

How would they clean that mess up?

how would they ever manufacture enough winter gear for the folks who live where it's warm?

Especially if they stop oil production like these nuts want to do.
Considering the idiots that come up with these ideas their solution would be to take a page from Spaceballs and want to build a Mega Maid ship to vacuum up all the dust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQAvMUUJr4

These are the people that want to put giant mirrors in space to reflect the sunlight, or distribute all sorts of chemicals or materials into the atmosphere without having a single clue as to what could happen....you know, morons.
 

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Someone seriously needs to do something with these insane people.

They need to be locked up into looney bins, before some equally insane politician thinks it is a good idea.
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There have been a few "post-apocalyptic" films made in which the disaster results after attempts to "save the planet" from environmental ills...