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Reading the New York Times on Friday was like picking up one of those tabloids in the supermarket checkout line. You know, the ones with articles entitled TAYLOR AND TRAVIS CANOODLE IN THE CARIBBEAN and HOW TO LOSE SIXTY POUNDS WHILE EATING ONLY CHEESECAKE AND ICE CREAM, along with crazy stuff, such as SCIENTISTS PLAN TO LAUNCH GIANT UMBRELLA TO BLOT OUT THE SUN. But this was, after all, the New York Times, and there was the article, all dressed up in Gray Lady language but still just as tarty a tabloid story as you could imagine: “Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis?”
Yes, it’s real. The author, Cara Buckley (or “Buckely,” as the scrupulously careful and accurate Paper of Record refers to her in one mention), is identified as a “reporter on the climate team at The Times who focuses on people working toward climate solutions.” That’s enough in itself to know she’s crazy, and she proves it with the opening paragraph of her article about the latest on the crisis that could destroy the world as we know it (no, Taylor and Travis aren’t breaking up; I’m referring to global warming).
“It’s come to this,” Buckley writes breathlessly. “With Earth at its hottest point in recorded history, and humans doing far from enough to stop its overheating, a small but growing number of astronomers and physicists are proposing a potential fix that could have leaped from the pages of science fiction: The equivalent of a giant beach umbrella, floating in outer space.”
Which astronomers and physicists? Dr. Jekyll? Dr. Strangelove? Dr. Frankenstein? Dr. Yakub, the evil scientist who, according to Nation of Islam lore, created white people on the island of Patmos, and thereby introduced evil into the world? The New York Times, which is supposed to be a serious paper, is actually taking seriously a scheme to launch a gigantic umbrella into space to shield us from the sun’s rays?
And I do mean gigantic: “To block the necessary amount of solar radiation,” Buckley informs us, with no indication that she has ingested any hallucinogenics, “the shade would have to be about a million square miles, roughly the size of Argentina.”
Oh. Okay. So “scientists” are plotting to launch an umbrella the size of Argentina into space to protect us from global warming, and this is the Paper of Record, and we should trust the science, eh? Dr. Roy Spencer, who is an actual scientist and a leading skeptic regarding the left’s climate change mythology, disputes the central premise of Buckley’s article and the giant umbrella plot: the idea that the earth is hotter now than it has ever been, and that it’s the fault of human activity. Spencer explains:
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Rick Olsha says
More stupid nonsense !!!
AM ISRAEL CHAI !!!!
JOHN LLOYD SCHARF says
Well, I love conspiracies, so I point to the Nazi Scientists who were researching creating a way to focus the Sun’s rays to make a death ray as a weapon of mass destruction. This could also be a way for those who want to reduce the world population to either freeze or toast human population centers.
mike says
what an Idea by people with money then brains
let’s see
This will totally stop the sun rays
no food,
no satellite communication
no weather satellite
NO SOLAR panel operation
once it’s up and all the foliage dies
who will be left to take it down
SC says
We can perfirate it with the ICBM’s on their way to whateveristan
Noah Andeark says
Another win by The Simpsons. They did that years ago!!!
But wait…….don’t we need the sun to run them solar panels?
deze MN bee says
Buckley’s chance.
E T says
It is called weather modification — Gates is behind it 100% as is the UN, EU, WHO and of the WEF.
They have been spraying the area where I live for a few years now. Carbon is bad for all living things the climate crisis loons will tell you. MILLIONS OF TREES HAVE BEEN CUT DOWN, then “they” planted solar panels, so then they cloud seed to block out the sun. It is that simple.
One must read the 2030 agenda.
Reduce carbon, reduce you.
What are they spraying ? Two main chemicals calcium chloride and ice flares, which are a combination chemical of acetone, silver iodide, sodium perchlorate, paradichlorobenzene and ammonia iodine that create an ice nucleus of iodide-silver, chloride-salt and carbon dioxide.
Silver iodide particles are injected into the atmosphere, not just jumping up the concentration of particle matter but also playing a role of a trigger for other pollutants. It is a potential health mess trying to control the weather.
This spraying can lead to health problems for humans (perhaps the real reason for such nonsense). RESPIRATORY issues, skin irritation, gastrointestinal problems.
Cloud seeding has been blamed for flash floods, droughts serious harm to humans. what is it doing to the ecosystem, wildlife, plant life, the water we drink? They don’t have a clue. Some real scientists are concerned about if this could actually throw off the earth’s natural balance of moisture.
I marked down for the month of January how many times I saw the sun shine on the snow. 1 day and I saw stars one night. I live in a “dark sky” area, where one used to be able to see millions of stars. Now the sky is grey.
most people refuse to read anything about it, they would rather laugh in your face. Geeez, why do I keep trying to fix stupid?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So once we block the sun, how do we get all that solar power that we’re supposed to replace our fossil fuels w/? Or have this scientists given up on the latter ever happening & have decided to block the sun so that solar energy is reduced instead?
Also, to cover the earth, such an umbrella will have to be closer to the sun, but the earth will still fall within the penumbra of the shadow: there will be no umbra. So essentially, we’ll be getting less sunlight, making the northern regions even colder. Maybe we’ll see climate refugees to places like Indonesia, Central Africa and Ecuador
SC says
Is it April first on the monkeyslum calender. After all they are still living in 1400 and change.