White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by reflecting back sunlight

Re:White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by re... by jongjong on Friday October 14, 2022 @08:37AM (#33202700)

Because humans are apes. Would you trust a bunch of monkeys to tamper with one of the most complex and critical systems in existence? No. Humans are not smart enough and too corrupt to be tampering with such complex and critical systems. The elites can spray as many aerosols into their homes as they like, they can inject whatever substance they want into their bodies and plug their brains into whatever infernal machine they want but don't subject me to these experiments.

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Re:White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by re... by usrusr on Friday October 14, 2022 @08:41AM (#33202749)

But those apes already did tamper. For centuries. Even the worst hobby surgeon should better be allowed to finish the job than leaving the wound open if there isn't someone better qualified at hand.

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Re:White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by re... by jongjong on Friday October 14, 2022 @08:47AM (#33202817)

Yes, and the result of this tampering doesn't inspire much confidence. I doubt humans understand what's actually going on. How can they come up with a solution when they don't even fully understand the problem? The problem of climate change is insanely complex with billions of variables.

Also, how can they possibly understand all the side effects of spraying aerosols into the atmosphere of a massive, highly complex planet which supports an incalculable number of living organisms? They didn't know that burning fossil fuels would lead to climate change when they started doing it, who is to say that spraying massive amounts of aerosols into the atmosphere will not lead to something else which they did not anticipate?

This proposed solution is akin flawed scientific practices of earlier times such as blood-letting or whacking people over the head with a stick to chase out daemons. At every point in history, people with fancy academic certificates have always been certain that they knew what they were doing and they've been proven wrong over and over.

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Re:White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by re... by o_1 on Friday October 14, 2022 @08:54AM (#33202888)

Yeah tampering with the atmosphere is literally insane.

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Re:White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by re... by dwringer on Friday October 14, 2022 @09:26AM (#33203211)

A passenger tampering with the flight controls of a 747 is also insane, but if there are no pilots and the plane is in an uncontrolled dive, then it's still not necessarily a bad idea.

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