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Title: Giant mirrors to reflect sunlight away from Earth may be needed to hit climate targets, UN says
Post by: mystery-ak on February 28, 2023, 04:51:25 pm
Giant mirrors to reflect sunlight away from Earth may be needed to hit climate targets, UN says

Anthony Cuthbertson
Tue, February 28, 2023 at 9:15 AM CST

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Giant space mirrors could reflect solar radiation away from Earth (SPL)

Giant mirrors positioned to reflect sunlight back into space may be needed to meet climate targets, according to a report from the United Nations.

Solar radiation modification (SRM), also known as solar geoengineering, is among the proposals from the UN Environment Programme to use radical technology to avoid a climate emergency.

“SRM is the only known approach that could be used to cool the Earth within a few years,” the report, compiled by an expert panel of climate scientists, stated.

“Climate model simulations consistently show that SRM could offset some of the effects of increasing greenhouse gases on global and regional climate, including carbon and water cycles, but there could be substantial residual or overcompensating climate change at the regional scales.”

The report found that more research is needed to be undertaken in order to better understand the environmental and social impacts of geoengineering technologies.

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https://news.yahoo.com/giant-mirrors-reflect-sunlight-away-151531606.html
Title: Re: Giant mirrors to reflect sunlight away from Earth may be needed to hit climate targets, UN says
Post by: catfish1957 on February 28, 2023, 04:58:32 pm
We're here folks....

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Title: Re: Giant mirrors to reflect sunlight away from Earth may be needed to hit climate targets, UN says
Post by: Kamaji on February 28, 2023, 05:10:27 pm
:facepalm2:
Title: Re: Giant mirrors to reflect sunlight away from Earth may be needed to hit climate targets, UN says
Post by: Wingnut on February 28, 2023, 05:10:50 pm
Quote
compiled by an expert panel of climate scientists

I would trust a room full of Gender Studies grads  before this so-called "group of scientists'.
Title: Re: Giant mirrors to reflect sunlight away from Earth may be needed to hit climate targets, UN says
Post by: Kamaji on February 28, 2023, 05:16:03 pm
Quote from: catfish1957 on February 28, 2023, 04:58:32 pm
We're here folks....

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Or here:

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Title: Re: Giant mirrors to reflect sunlight away from Earth may be needed to hit climate targets, UN says
Post by: GtHawk on February 28, 2023, 06:58:29 pm
So the UN decides that a decades old bit of lunacy is a great new idea? A stupid idea proposed by stupid people who have no idea how the Earth works but are more than happy to dick with it. Let's put these morons in their own little biosphere and cut the the suns light and warmth to the same degree they are proposing and let them live in their hypothesis first.
Title: Re: Giant mirrors to reflect sunlight away from Earth may be needed to hit climate targets, UN says
Post by: mountaineer on February 28, 2023, 07:35:52 pm
In my part of the country, we see too little sunlight as it is. wth.
Title: Re: Giant mirrors to reflect sunlight away from Earth may be needed to hit climate targets, UN says
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 28, 2023, 07:40:59 pm
What could possibly go wrong?
Title: Re: Giant mirrors to reflect sunlight away from Earth may be needed to hit climate targets, UN says
Post by: Wingnut on February 28, 2023, 07:43:50 pm
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on February 28, 2023, 07:40:59 pm
What could possibly go wrong?

7 years bad luck when it breaks?
Title: Re: Giant mirrors to reflect sunlight away from Earth may be needed to hit climate targets, UN says
Post by: deb on February 28, 2023, 07:51:08 pm
Quote from: Wingnut on February 28, 2023, 07:43:50 pm
7 years bad luck when it breaks?

 :silly: