The White House cautiously endorsed the idea of studying how to block sunlight from hitting Earth’s surface as a way to limit global warming in a congressionally mandated report that could help bring efforts once confined to science fiction into the realm of legitimate debate.

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Where oh where is the Highlander when you need him?

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

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If this is what we are aiming for instead of just fixing the things causing the problems

Then maybe we should just consider letting global warming do its thing.

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You say “just fixing the things causing the problems” as if that’s something that’s easy, or even doable. It’s not.

I really don’t get why people are so opposed to simply studying options like this. If you’re really convinced that the world is doomed anyway, why does it bother you whether studies like this are done?

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I think it’s too late to actually fix the problems.

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Pretty much. Guess I should have Saud “work on the problems.” Like we could be trying to do better, and instead of working on the things that got us to this point, a lot of them were left alone. And instead the plan is to work on blocking out the sun.

Yes, it’s obviously more complex. And yes, there has been a bigger push for green energy. But we could be forcing even more change instead of this

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And we are fucked: https://youtu.be/dSu5sXmsur4 (kurtzgestat)

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I plan to give more credence to whatever results the climatologists who study this come up with over what a science popularizer on Youtube says.

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Kurtzgestat is generally one of the best YouTube channels for actually researched topics. If you wait till they end or skip to the end they provide a full list of actual papers and their citations. You are welcome to back check their work as well.

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Since the dawn of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun…

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Does that mean conservatives will have to admit that climate science is real? They would rather die (and kill us all) than admit any form of science is real, so I can’t imagine they’d agree to any helpful resolution on climate change.

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