Liberals latest plot: Blocking out the sun

Why o' why, dear moderator, would you start a thread on Too Hot that involves science and the government?

"viruses the sun doesn't exist" comments to start in 3, 2, 1...

 

Highly, highly risky, but maybe less risky than not trying some geoengineering

 

I think the key point is the government is studying it, not implementing it. Some on this thread will undoubtedly confuse the two.

The law of unintended consequences weighs heavily on this approach to mitigating rising temperatures. The earth does love its ice ages.

 

Reminds me of the old "Polack" joke (insert any group you want to offend here):

The Americans went to the moon - that's NOTHING!
We are going to go to the sun!

Won't you burn up in going?

Hah! Idiot! We'll go at night!

 

Since the earthy is flat wouldn’t it be easier to turn it upside down an hour a day? Or for whatever time is needed to cool it down.

 

Seems like pollution would take care of that. Burn more coal!

 

oh shit!!!!

nevermind

 

Blaire Erskine in a parody of Kandiss Taylor, who is real and was a candidate for Georgia governor

 

Science seems interesting, but sounds like a bad idea with no control. It can be done unilaterally by zealots. Sounds like a WME (weapon of mass extinction). I suspect the “study” is really to determine how hard is this to do, and which countries have the capabilities to launch a particle blocker into the atmosphere.. This study is not being done for benevolent purposes.

 

Yet another instance where The Simpsons have predicted the future:

 

Finally somebody taking common sense in here. ‘Bout time.

 

Gravity dude. Don’t be so stupid!

 

Well it’s not really gravity. It’s this:

Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

 

Could we put a tactical nuke inside an active volcano and let the ash do the work?

 

Been there, done that

 

This was actually a plot point for one of the episodes of Extrapolations series on Apple TV (not bad)