Climate scientists’ taxpayer-funded plot to create ‘global cooling’

By Paul Homewood

h/t Philip Bratby

In the classic 1995 Simpsons episode Who Shot Mr Burns?, the devious Montgomery Burns conspires to increase his vast fortune by forcing Springfield to pay for round-the-clock heat and electricity by blocking out the sun.

“Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun,” he says. “I will do the next best thing: block it out!” His plot to blot out our star’s rays, using a giant mirror on top of a mountain, is decried by his assistant, Smithers, as crossing the line from “everyday villainy to cartoonish supervillainy”.

While attempts to alter the climate by interfering with the sun were once fodder for cartoons or science fiction novels, today’s scientists are actively considering the idea for a more altruistic purpose.

By finding a safe way to dim the sun’s rays, advocates argue humans could bring about a controlled period of “global cooling”, mitigating the catastrophic impacts of climate change.

Theoretical approaches include releasing particles into the upper atmosphere that deflect the worst of the sun’s radiation, thinning high-altitude clouds that contribute to the “greenhouse” effect, or even building vast mirrors in space to block the Sun’s light.

The idea of attempting radical geoengineering has proved controversial, with academics concerned about the risks involved in manipulating our planet’s atmosphere rather than focusing on emissions reduction.

But with growing fears the world could fail to limit global warming to 2C, the British Government is preparing to put taxpayer cash from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria) towards field trials that can test whether sci-fi climate engineering could become a reality.

Aria is an innovation lab that was the brainchild of Dominic Cummings, the former No 10 adviser to Boris Johnson. Armed with £800m, it is tasked with pursuing scientific research to unlock “breakthroughs at the edge of the possible”.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/08/31/how-taxpayers-cash-funnelled-climate-manipulation/

It is hard to know where to start!!

The idea of lunatic scientists, and I use that adjective deliberately, should be let loose messing with the Earth’s atmosphere is frankly frightening. It has repeatedly been proved that modelled projections of global warming have been grossly overestimated for years now. Yet these scientists, for whom climate change is a religion, could be given the tools to send us back into another Ice Age in their quest to “save” the planet.

Meanwhile at the more mundane end of the scale, why on earth are UK taxpayers being paying £800 million to “save” the rest of the world who are happy to keep pumping out more CO2 regardless. If there is a blackhole in UK finances, maybe Starmer should start with cancelling this waste of money.

And the award for the most fraudulent graph of the week?