Good job, you absolute morons. Lets blot out the sun that feeds us because some lib ■■■■■■ out there is too weak and pathetic to handle a bead or two of sweat in the summer.
If any of them had a brain in that dumbass skull, they’d welcome the end of the Glacial Cycles (which causes plagues and famines every single time).
Lemme guess, this dumbassery funded by the US Taxpayers?
Last paragraph: “ History has shown us that when we insert ourselves into modification of nature, there are always very serious unintended consequences,”
nothing says “science” like doing things in secret, to avoid scrutiny
“The experiment, which organizers didn’t widely announce to avoid public backlash, marks the acceleration of a contentious field of research known as solar radiation modification. “
They hid it because they knew how people would respond. People would say “this sounds like a plan right out of a Roger Moore Bond movie villain’s head.”
So what happens to solar energy generation if we succeed in lowering the amount of solar energy reaching the solar panels? Solar radiation in the light spectrum is the input required for solar energy production by these panels. If enough solar radiation is reflected by the atmosphere to actually reduce global temperature through this artificial process, then a corresponding significant drop in solar panel electricity generation can obviously be expected.
If one actually reads what these researchers are doing they are developing this technology with the hope that it will never have to be used. They still agree that the best option to control global climate change is the reduction of CO2 emissions.
They are looking at what was already happening with cloud brightening with ships which they think accounted for 5% offset in warming because of emissions but that effect has been reduces because of regulations that reduce pollution emitted by ships.
This tech is looking at if the same effect can be reached but using salt instead of pollutants.