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Daily News Stuff 4 August 2024

Dissolve The People Edition

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  • Should we try cooling the planet with sulphur dioxide? (Japan Times)

    I mean, we know that it works. What's the catch?
    "The whole notion of spraying sulfur compounds to reflect sunlight is arrogant and simplistic," Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki said. "There are unintended consequences of powerful technologies like these, and we have no idea what they will be."
    Yeah, we have no idea what would happen if large amounts of sulphur dioxide were suddenly released into the upper atmosphere because such a thing has never happened before.
    Raymond Pierrehumbert, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Oxford, said he considered solar geoengineering a grave threat to human civilization.

    "It's not only a bad idea in terms of something that would never be safe to deploy," he said. "But even doing research on it is not just a waste of money, but actively dangerous."
    I'll just pause here to say that this is a wonderful case of nominative determinism, because this is precisely what you would expect to hear from someone named Raymond Pierrehumbert.
    Opponents of solar geoengineering cite several main risks. They say it could create a "moral hazard," mistakenly giving people the impression that it is not necessary to rapidly reduce fossil fuel emissions.
    In other words, I don't want to solve the problem. I want global communism.

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1 Colder climate is almost always associated with famine.  And _they_ keep telling us _they_ want a colder climate.

Posted by: normal at Sunday, August 04 2024 11:00 PM (bg2DR)

2 Basically, this. The whole environmentalist boondoggle seems a response to agricultural improvements that otherwise promised that food stress revolts would be a thing of the past. So they have tried to backdoor mass starvation, and do so in a way that they can blame other people, 'society'.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, August 05 2024 02:32 AM (rcPLc)

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