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Carbon dioxide in varying concentrations has been around for millions of years. Plants, trees etc. depend on it, and here we are. But climate scientists know best – don’t they? Looks like another trip to cloud cuckoo land here, in pursuit of the absurd climate control illusion.
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A new study lays out the theoretical plan of tethering a giant solar shield to a captured space rock, says Space.com.
Potentially, this contraption could protect Earth from the sun.
To help combat the effects of global warming, scientists are toying with an innovative idea to shield our planet from the sun with a spaceborne “umbrella” of sorts.
“In Hawaii, many use an umbrella to block the sunlight as they walk about during the day,” István Szapudi, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy, said in a statement. “I was thinking, could we do the same for Earth and thereby mitigate the impending catastrophe of climate change?”
The reason carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases contribute to global warming is that they trap sunlight around our planet that should be released back into space, ultimately leading to rising temperatures. [Talkshop comment – not much of an explanation there, just the usual assertions].
But it’s the sun, and not greenhouse gases, that creates the heat to begin with. That opens up the idea of building Earth a shade.
So, Szapudi drew up an “umbrella” of his own. It would rest at the L1 Lagrange point between the sun and Earth, hypothetically joining sun- or solar-wind-observing probes such as the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) that dwell there today.
In theory, a large-enough solar shield could effectively block around 1.7 percent of solar radiation at L1, enough to prevent a catastrophic rise in Earth’s temperatures.
Full article here.
via Tallbloke’s Talkshop
August 1, 2023 at 04:39PM
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