Bill Gates, the Microsoft gazillionaire, is funding a geo-engineering project that aims to form white clouds to reflect the Sun’s rays and ‘reduce global warming.’
…the Microsoft billionaire, is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every second and spray it upwards. This would seed vast banks of white clouds to reflect the Sun’s rays away from Earth.
The British and American scientists involved do not intend to wait for international rules on technology that deliberately alters the climate. They believe that the weak outcome of December’s climate summit in Copenhagen means that emissions will continue to rise unchecked and that the world urgently needs an alternative strategy to protect itself from global warming.
Artificial white clouds will do what scientists expect them to do, prior research into the effects of volcanic ash in the stratosphere show that cooling can be promoted by particles.
But, what gives Gates the right to tinker with the planet? If global warming science is as shoddy as it appears to be and dire predictions of doom are wrong, what damage might this geo-engineering do? Some IPCC ‘scientists suggest that Earth is entering an extended cool period:
…research has been carried out by eminent climate scientists, including Professor Mojib Latif. He is a leading member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He and his colleagues predicted the cooling trend in a 2008 paper, and warned of it again at an IPCC conference in Geneva in September.
Reckless lone wolf solutions could make a bad situation worse. Crop yields are sensitive to temperature in a simple way: warm is good, cold is bad. Gates might well believe in global warming and think his solution a good one, but if he’s wrong there could be a high body count when there isn’t enough food to go around.
Even warmists are worried about geoengineering:
Sir David King, former chief scientific adviser to the Government, said that experiments with potential consequences beyond national borders needed international regulations. He told The Times: “I do not see any geoengineering solution which does not have unintended consequences or is not far too expensive.”
Someone needs to sit the world’s richest man down and explain that the planet doesn’t come with a Ctrl-Alt-Delete function.
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He wants to tip us into an ice age and so exterminate nearly all of us, as he can’t not know that AGW is a lie, and also that the next ice age of 100,000-250,000yrs duration is due after this current 12,000yr gap during which warm interlude our numbers exploded.
I put together a Blue Screen of Death image. Have fun.
Good grief. I’m beginning to think that I’m living in some kind of **** cartoon here.
First Al Gasbag Gore, and now this.
Incredible.
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I made the widget here: http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/countdown-clock
For the embed, if you use WordPress, add a text box as a sidebar widget, paste your code, save, wait for adulation, done.
The Al Gore Doomsday Clock is great. How did you embed the java script?
The well is poisoned.
I’m annoyed by their arrogance but not alarmed by their prospects for success. I’m guessing that the force required to lift 10 tons/second to a height of 1000 meters is also sufficient to sink anything that floats.
This jerk already polluted the entire plant with his crap software, now he wants to finish the job. If there is a hell Bill Gates is going to spend eternity rebooting Vista.
Oddly, Sir David King misses the obvious: there are unintended consequences to EVERY action.
As to Bill Gates, he is trying to squander his money before Obama taxes him into poverty. He ran out of giant condoms, or so I heard ;)
Yeah, I sent it off to a few folks around the hyperverse. I figure, if art punking Bill Gates can’t go viral, where’s the cosmic justice?
That’s an expensive piece of hardware, I’m not sure a grunt can make that call…
Glad you liked the pic CB :)
Someone should tell Bill that Thermageddon Dogma does not attribute any warming to the sun–so he can scrub his LV-426 terraforming plan.
Otherwise, we’ll have to take off and nuke the site from orbit–only way to be sure.
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