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December 19th, 2023
Techniques for solar climate intervention have been widely discussed to increase the quantity of solar radiation reflected back into space.
Image credit: Chelsea Thompson, University of Colorado/CIRES and NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory
A group has been formed to study and promote a based-in-space sunshade to help fend off global climate change.
The idea has been discussed for years, but the Planetary Sunshade Foundation is cranking out support papers that spotlight the practicality of the approach.
A sunshade would be installed at the Sun-Earth Lagrange-1 point to reduce radiative forcing — the trapping of heat in the atmosphere due to greenhouse gas emissions — by reflecting sunlight back into space.
Image credit: Planetary Sunshade Foundation
A planetary sunshade, they advise, could be the best solution for solar radiation management and should be viewed as a key part of countering worrisome indications of alterations in Earth’s climate.
For more information, go to my new Space.com story – “These scientists want to put a massive ‘sunshade’ in orbit to help fight climate change” – at:
https://www.space.com/sunshade-earth-orbit-climate-change
Keeping an eye out on the puzzle pieces of climate change. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado safeguards society by issuing space weather forecasts, warnings, and alerts.
Image caption: NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center
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The worrying part is that this will reduce solar insolation.
As there is no “climate change” to worry about from a small amount of extra CO2 (the root cause of the “concern”) these people should be regarded as dangerous. See Prof Will Happer.
We are in an interglacial for the last 11000 years. Enjoy. The ice will be back soon enough and then things on Earth will be grim.