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To Fight Climate Change, We Could Block the Sun

6 points by deegles 3y ago

k99x55 3y ago
No. To Fight global warming* we must stop drilling oil and gas. Fancy futuristic magic tech isn't going to save us. This sounds like the flying-cars-solves-traffic BS: dark PR funded by the Fossil Fuel industry. Dark PR talk (regarding the road lobby): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP41Hsr4fMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP41Hsr4fMA * climate change is term coined by Big Oil PR to make global warming sounds less scary -
- avmich 3y ago
  > No. To Fight global warming* we must stop drilling oil and gas. So what if we can't stop drilling, or can't do that soon enough? We're trying for quite some time already, we see some results of our attempts, it's probably a good question to ask.
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- Two4 3y ago
  To your footnote, you're not wrong, but climate change is a better and more encompassing description for what people experience: more extreme weather, be it heat, cold, precipitation or drought. We can't feel an average temperature rise of 1.5 degrees, but I can certainly tell you that we just experienced the hottest summer peak temperatures on record.
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nh23423fefe 3y ago
Seems like climate change is a meme which deranges the adopters into thinking this kind of planetary alteration is good.
- itishappy 3y ago
  You interpret this article as saying this is good?
- marssaxman 3y ago
  Your attitude reminds me of the religious fundamentalists I grew up with, who were still arguing about "evolutionism" and expressing skepticism over the idea of geological time as recently as the '80s and '90s.
  - nh23423fefe 3y ago
    You inferred too much
itishappy 3y ago
> It would take at least 400 dedicated rocket launches a year, for ten years... The project would weigh in at 550,000 tons: at its lightest. That's quite the scale. > The solar sail model, to its credit, is capable of being dismantled if things go wrong. I'm sensing a potential issue here...
dingensundso 3y ago
The Simpsons predicted it: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Sun_Blocker https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Sun_Blocker

6 points by deegles 3y ago

No. To Fight global warming* we must stop drilling oil and gas. Fancy futuristic magic tech isn't going to save us. This sounds like the flying-cars-solves-traffic BS: dark PR funded by the Fossil Fuel industry. Dark PR talk (regarding the road lobby): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP41Hsr4fMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP41Hsr4fMA * climate change is term coined by Big Oil PR to make global warming sounds less scary -

avmich 3y ago
> No. To Fight global warming* we must stop drilling oil and gas. So what if we can't stop drilling, or can't do that soon enough? We're trying for quite some time already, we see some results of our attempts, it's probably a good question to ask.
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Two4 3y ago
To your footnote, you're not wrong, but climate change is a better and more encompassing description for what people experience: more extreme weather, be it heat, cold, precipitation or drought. We can't feel an average temperature rise of 1.5 degrees, but I can certainly tell you that we just experienced the hottest summer peak temperatures on record.

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nh23423fefe 3y ago

Seems like climate change is a meme which deranges the adopters into thinking this kind of planetary alteration is good.

itishappy 3y ago
You interpret this article as saying this is good?
marssaxman 3y ago
Your attitude reminds me of the religious fundamentalists I grew up with, who were still arguing about "evolutionism" and expressing skepticism over the idea of geological time as recently as the '80s and '90s.
- nh23423fefe 3y ago
  You inferred too much

itishappy 3y ago

> It would take at least 400 dedicated rocket launches a year, for ten years... The project would weigh in at 550,000 tons: at its lightest. That's quite the scale. > The solar sail model, to its credit, is capable of being dismantled if things go wrong. I'm sensing a potential issue here...

dingensundso 3y ago

The Simpsons predicted it: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Sun_Blocker https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Sun_Blocker