Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
Scientists desperate to stop or reverse climate change are dumping chemicals in the ocean and spraying saltwater in the air. What can go wrong? I discuss the short and long term.
The Wall Street Journal reports Scientists Resort to Once-Unthinkable Solutions to Cool the Planet
Dumping chemicals in the ocean? Spraying saltwater into clouds? Injecting reflective particles into the sky? Scientists are resorting to once unthinkable techniques to cool the planet because global efforts to check greenhouse gas emissions are failing.
These geoengineering approaches were once considered taboo by scientists and regulators who feared that tinkering with the environment could have unintended consequences, but now researchers are receiving taxpayer funds and private investments to get out of the lab and test these methods outdoors.
Tweaking the Climate
Experiments Underway
- Marine Cloud Brightening: Researchers aboard a ship off the northeastern coast of Australia near the Whitsunday Islands are spraying a briny mixture through high-pressure nozzles into the air in an attempt to brighten low-altitude clouds that form over the ocean. Scientists hope bigger, brighter clouds will reflect sunlight away from the Earth, shade the ocean surface and cool the waters around the Great Barrier Reef, where warming ocean temperatures have contributed to massive coral die-offs. The research project, known as marine cloud brightening, is led by Southern Cross University as part of the $64.55 million, or 100 million Australian dollars, Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program.
- Stardust Solutions: In Israel, a startup called Stardust Solutions has begun testing a system to disperse a cloud of tiny reflective particles about 60,000 feet in altitude, reflecting sunlight away from Earth to cool the atmosphere in a concept known as solar radiation management, or SRM.
- Dumping Lye in the Ocean: In Massachusetts, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution plan to pour 6,000 gallons of a liquid solution of sodium hydroxide, a component of lye, into the ocean 10 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard this summer. They hope the chemical base will act like a big tablet of Tums, lowering the acidity of a patch of surface water and absorbing 20 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, storing it safely in the ocean.
This reminds me of a half-baked idea in the 1960s we discussed in grade school.
The idea back then was to spray charcoal on the artic ice to stop global cooling.
In Need of Volcanos?
Experiments aimed at cooling the atmosphere by reflecting sunlight away from Earth are an attempt to mimic what happens when a volcano erupts. In 1991, Mount Pinatubo, an active volcano in the Philippines, spewed sulfur and ash into the upper atmosphere, lowering the Earth’s temperature by .5 degrees Celsius (. 9 degrees Fahrenheit) for an entire year.
But until a few years ago, many scientists opposed human interventions, fearing a slippery slope that would allow society to avoid making tough decisions about reducing emissions and could ultimately backfire.
Solar Climate Intervention
Solar climate intervention diagram from White House document linked to below.
Yeah, let’s toss ash into the air. What can possibly go wrong? Lye in the ocean? Hey, why not?
If we get too much ash in the air and lye in the ocean, we can take it out, right?
White House Guidelines
Not to worry, President Biden has Guidelines on Solar Radiation Modification.
This Research Plan was prepared in response to a requirement in the joint explanatory statement accompanying Division B of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, directing the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to provide a research plan for “solar and other rapid climate interventions.”
Not only do we need brighter clouds, we need more ash in the sky to darken it.
I am sure that if we can spend trillions of dollars to brighten clouds by spraying saltwater into the air while simultaneously darkening the sky, that everything will be great.
More seriously, does anyone really think these idea can possibly scale globally? At what cost?
Short and Long Term Risks
Ironically, the short term risk is that one of these plans is actually successful.
And bear in mind data will be manipulated to show success if for no other reason than to get more funding. Then we will ramp up spending to the tune of tens of trillions of dollars, messing with mother nature, only to encounter the long term risk.
The long term risk is we do something really stupid like dumping charcoal on the Arctic as proposed in the 1960s to melt the ice in the arctic.
In other climate-related news ….
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Bloomberg reports a 48% Surge in Costs Wrecks Biden’s Much-Lauded Wind-Power Plans.
Even with massive subsidies, these projects are not economical.
Biden’s Biggest Tool
White House spokesperson Michael Kikukawa said Biden has “used every available tool to advance the growing American offshore wind industry.”
Indeed!
His biggest tool is a pack of lies starting with a claim that these projects are cheaper and will pay for themselves.
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“climate change”
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Depop is their only concern – by every means available.
When?
Mar 25th 8:45 am GMT
Hahaha, what’s the over/under on that?
Who in all human lore lusts for the destuction of God’s creation?
Especially the corruption of those “Made In His image”
All of this “climate” insanity is satanism.
A train….keeps running.
Yeah, no.
The premise is absurd.
Puts a whole new spin on peein’ out da window!
What happens when they are reducing the temperature if a big volcano blows its top and sends earth into another maunder minimum or worse?
Won’t all this deliberate interventionist cooling be amplified by the natural cooling?
Sure do seem like it. Seems that is more likely their goal.
The Maunder Minimum was not a volcanic or other earthbound phenomenon … it was a severe decrease in solar activity that led to a mini ice age … but your concern is certainly valid that the combination of decreased solar activity (such as we’re experiencing now) plus a volcano of sizable impact would be a double whammy … but that is obviously no concern of those behind these programs to deliberately eliminate as much of the human race as possible.
My bad.
A “maunder minimum type” temperature drop.
Much better.
Nah, just start up the coal power plants, turn on the air conditioning, raise animals that fart like cows and let people drive gas vehicles again! (sarc if you didn’t already get it)
Those are actually good ideas for improving global agricultural output.
The limiting cases mean the Earth is always in danger of ice ages, but never threatened by warmth.
Those whom the gods would destroy they first make insane or something like that. These people are insane. Blocking sun and carbon dioxide is obviously some sick attempt to destroy food production. I guarandamntee you these coquesuqueres have hydroponic farms in their bazillion Dollar end times bunkers and likely 100,000 gallon propane storage tanks to run them.
These people — like the FauciFlu folks — are NOT insane or stupid … they are an enormous embodiment of evil here on Earth. Anyone doubting that need only look at the course of events these days to see the presence of evil in so many aspects of life … pushed upon US by the same folks that pushed the Weimar era in Germany 100 years ago.
Ok, but I don’t get the Weimar comment. Most would agree that Weimar was better than Hitler.
Ad populum is a logical fallacy.
Many people agree with the proposition that Hitler came to power to end the moral and other decay in Germany that was promulgated by the jews … same as here …
They had openly flaunted everything disgusting in the US today … transgenderism and other sexual perversions on a grand scale … and the fake news clips showing the Germans burning books was that they were burning books pushing these agendas on the public — including on the children … again, just like here in the US.
Are you insane or ignorant?
Most would agree that Weimar was better than Hitler.
Must be opposite day again.
Brain teaser of the day:
Why is it that every Progressive on the planet wants shit to STAY THE SAME? You’d think they would WELCOME Climate CHANGE!
Change is always “best”, right? So why y’all be fukin wid da weaver n sit?
Yeah, like why are Progressives so against “progress?” Really, at the end of the day this is all a form of blasphemy. They are enraged that having declared they possess god-like powers and brilliance that they are still petty little losers that have no god-like powers and that WE laugh at them and hold them in utter contempt.
Change is the great engine put into motion in this Creation … without it, everything would come to a halt …
No … these folks don’t want to change the planet … they want to eliminate those of US that they don’t like and that they consider somehow inferior.
Progressives want to live in a conservative climate.
The Science is in. We can end racisms and inequality by convincing White people to dilute, degrade, and eliminate themselves – and “whiteness” in general. And so it goes that we can end Climate Change with the same $cientific method.
Since there is no global climate crisis, some “scientists” need to go to prison for these insane interventions….
At the very least.
“…global efforts to check greenhouse gas emissions are failing.”
That’s because there are no “greenhouse gas emissions” to check. It’s all a ruse.
It’s really an effort to stop people from moving into the 5D transition that the earth is going through. A transition in which the ‘old powers that be’ will be exposed for their satan worshipping ways and will lose their grip on power over the masses.
These are the things science fiction movies are made of.
The tiny turbines will save green energy.
Just imagine, all highways lined withthese idiotic things;
https://www.greencoolearth.com/articles/alpha-311s-innovative-small-turbine-harnesses-the-power-of-passing-cars/
Been going on for years….But it’s YOUR fault…….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_modification
Chem trails
If leftist bent scientists are proposing or doing it, it is guaranteed to be bad and overpriced.
The High Priests of Scientism Try Risky Air And Water Experiments Hoping To Stop Climate Change
Fixed.
The High Priests of Scientism Perform Risky Air And Water Rituals to Con the Peasants, Claim Gaia is Being Appeased
Is it true that humans are trying to stop human caused climate change by deliberately trying to change the climate?
Sounds pretty fucking retarded if you ask me.
Been stating a form of that dictum for decades. Apparently it is far too complex for the average homonid to parse.
If companies and actions like the above are the real extent of it, and things like cloudseeding which is quite in the open, then you could actually oppose them. It’s a relatively small amount of agencies, institutions, and startups.
This is one reason why ‘chemtrails’ are a psyop (though many of the forms of weather modification are quite real). If every contrail is a chemtrail, then the operation is impossibly big and unstoppable. But I think people find comfort in the lie, because then they can shake their fist at every airliner in the sky and feel absolved.
Ding ding ding! We have a correct answer.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848017-the-brothers-vonnegut
They’re not trying to stop climate change They’re cropdusting humans like insects
Chemical trails, lol, just a ridiculously fringe conspiracy theory… with multi-agency oversight, a billion dollar budget, confidential contract numbers, and phase II execution criteria.
And stealth airplanes.
It’s all bullshit ans miss-direction. Whatever they are doing with the Chemtrails and other atmosheric BS has nothing to do with climate change. That’s the cover story.
If they really manage to f*** things up, kill them all.
You know not of what horrors you have spoken into existence.