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2025-04-28 Science & Technology

The mission to dim the SUN: How controversial geoengineering technique could cool the planet using existing aircraft

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-28 10:20|| || Front Page|| [119 views ] Top

#1 Step 1: waste billions on solar panels.
Step 2: waste billions blocking out the sun ☀️

Posted by Airandee 2025-04-28 13:32|| 2025-04-28 13:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Anyone advocating this should be burned at the stake, according to environmentalists who FOUGHT this pollution for years. I happen to agree with that given that when I look to the Houston skyline, it's not covered in brown haze anymore.

And if they trigger the next ice age? The answer is scaphism on pay per view and betting in vegas. I would bet none last more than a week.

Posted by Silentbrick 2025-04-28 14:16|| 2025-04-28 14:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Surely King Boasberg, the First of His Name, will issues a planet-wide injunction against this.

Posted by Matt 2025-04-28 14:27|| 2025-04-28 14:27|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought there already was a plan in effect.

Shocking list of cities where polluted air is slowly killing its residents

Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-28 14:29|| 2025-04-28 14:29|| Front Page Top

#5 before sulfur was eliminated from airplane fuel, there was a high level of particulates in the air at flight levels (5000' to 40,000')

there was plenty of sunlight back then

the sulfur was almost completely eliminated by the end of the 1990s

the sulfur was eliminated as a health benefit measure, not for climate control
the change in world temperatures is complex and difficult to actually measure as the atmosphere is quite complicated; the particulates had a number of offsetting effects, some cooling, some warming

this geoengineering experiment is designed to do substantial measurement at different altitudes

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-04-28 16:19|| 2025-04-28 16:19|| Front Page Top

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