Gates-Funded Plan to Dim The Sun’s Rays is Moving Forward.

Steve Milloy talks Bill Gates’ Geoengineering Project with Kara McKinney on OANN

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December 29, 2020 10:09 pm

I suspect Gates gets no sex from his wife.

MarkG
Reply to  Zoe Phin
December 29, 2020 10:14 pm

That’s a dude, dude.

Reply to  MarkG
December 29, 2020 10:57 pm

Behind every meglomaniac is a cold woman. Fact.

John Wilson
Reply to  Zoe Phin
December 31, 2020 4:53 pm

That would be a divorce settlement to be determined.

Notanacademic
Reply to  Zoe Phin
December 30, 2020 1:47 am

I don’t blame her, but I wish she would maybe he’d chill out and do something genuinely useful and charitable with his money

Sara
Reply to  Notanacademic
December 30, 2020 4:54 am

Let’s all get together and send him begging letters, telling him we need money to pay the bills and put food on the table. He really is dumber than a box of rocks.

Notanacademic
Reply to  Sara
December 30, 2020 5:28 am

He might be more inclined to give us some money if we tell him we’ve an idea for a new vaccine that will stop us exhaling carbon dioxide, it’s not as daft as blocking out sunlight but you never know he might go for it.

Reply to  Sara
December 30, 2020 6:06 am

Just last month, I received an email from a concerned member of the public who had yet another scheme for pumping cold benthic water to the surface to weaken hurricanes. I pointed out the problem with the scale needed but he just kept persisting that he could scale up. He seems to think that Uncle Sam just gives us a big bucket of money to carry out any weather modification studies we want. I eventually told him to contact Bill Gates and I haven’t heard from him since.

Reply to  Mumbles McGuirck
December 30, 2020 4:21 pm

Unintended consequence: if you interrupt the hurricane you interrupt its work at removing heat from the hot ocean surace to space and thereby cause warming. You mix the warm water into the cooler subsurface water and retain the heat. We have had a pandemic of stupidity for about 5 decades. Geoengineering the planet is a symptom of this cerebral numbness.

mikebartnz
Reply to  Notanacademic
January 3, 2021 8:47 pm

It is always “Rob Peter to pay Paul” with him. Just look at some of his foundation investments.
The guy is a megalomaniac and like Soros the world won’t miss him when he finally falls off his perch.

Walter Sobchak
Reply to  Zoe Phin
December 30, 2020 6:39 am

They have been together for 33 years. Even the hottest fire burns low.

Bryan A
Reply to  Walter Sobchak
December 30, 2020 5:32 pm

We know they were intimate at least once, he got ADell

Giovanni
Reply to  Zoe Phin
December 31, 2020 1:05 am

Indeed! It’s because it’s micro soft!

Bandit
Reply to  Zoe Phin
December 31, 2020 8:48 am

I don’t think he wants any

jacques serge Lemiere
December 29, 2020 10:18 pm

privatisation of the sunlight.. it is based on the weird idea that even if prediction about rca are true..you d’ont have the right not to regard it as “bad” … even it is obviously good for you…

Reply to  jacques serge Lemiere
December 30, 2020 12:17 am

Privatisation of the right to life, more likely. I happen to have caught onto this idiot’s stupid new plan last year two years ago already. I was inspired to kotch up my own theory for Baal’s idiot idea to chemtrail us into submission.
https://greenpets.co.za/index.php/en/paranoid-goy/213-planet-x
The longer Soros and Gates live, the more believable Icke becomes…

griff
Reply to  jacques serge Lemiere
December 30, 2020 12:42 am

I expect he got the idea from Monty Burns…

Tom in Florida
Reply to  griff
December 30, 2020 8:24 am

Griff,
Not as amusing as most of your posts, but still funny.

Fight Climate Fear. Warmer is Better.

Philip
December 29, 2020 10:29 pm

Hubris x Money x ignorance = determination to throw shiny stuff into atmosphere because …global warming.

Patrick MJD
December 29, 2020 10:37 pm

There is a film called “Snowpiercer” that sort of touches on this.

Reply to  Patrick MJD
December 30, 2020 6:30 am

There is a movie called “Kill Bill” that sort of relates to this…..what if the Big Experiment is done and then…. a super volcano goes off? Can you say “New Ice Age”?

Kpar
Reply to  Anti-griff
December 30, 2020 12:46 pm

Or if the Sun cools down…

VicV
December 29, 2020 10:45 pm

Gates: While secure in his bunker, anything to kill as many as possible in one fell swoop.

Kpar
Reply to  VicV
December 30, 2020 12:46 pm

He can always burn money to keep warm.

Bryan A
Reply to  Kpar
December 30, 2020 5:35 pm

It’s all on just paper

Stephen Wilde
December 29, 2020 10:49 pm

All our space junk is already increasing Earth’s reflectivity way more than Gates ever could.
Still pretty much insignificant.
Anyway, whatever materials or processes seek to disturb the hydrostatic equilibrium of our atmosphere their effect is always neutralised by convective adjustments otherwise atmospheres could not be retained long term.

Richard M
Reply to  Stephen Wilde
December 30, 2020 7:50 am

The “convective adjustment” would also lead to a dryer climate. Less evaporation and less rain would cause some desertification. Maybe his real goal is to produce a worldwide famine to kill off billions of people.

Alan
December 29, 2020 10:53 pm

Is he trying to bring on the next ice age?

Mainer
Reply to  Alan
December 30, 2020 1:15 am

I seem to remember in the sixties we were going to blacken the ice to avoid a new ice age 🙁

Alan
Reply to  Mainer
December 30, 2020 9:46 am

I remember that.

Kpar
Reply to  Mainer
December 30, 2020 12:48 pm

Well, I thought that was to melt icebergs in shipping lanes. You might be right, though…

December 29, 2020 10:58 pm

“… Plan to Dim The Sun’s Rays …”

What could possibly go wrong?

StephenP
Reply to  Steve Case
December 30, 2020 3:49 am

Seeing the effect of the Mt Tambora volcano explosion in 1816 causing ‘the year without a summer’, that in fact lasted for 3 years, and resulted in widespread decline in agricultural production, how good would their ‘control knob’ need to be?

Reply to  StephenP
December 30, 2020 8:38 am

StephenP  December 30, 2020 3:49 am

I’ve given your comment a little over a minute, and it still doesn’t make sense.

Bryan A
Reply to  StephenP
December 30, 2020 5:39 pm

Twould need to be very precise and reversible once the next Milankovitch cycle kicks in

Reply to  StephenP
December 31, 2020 7:13 am

The Krakatoa eruption in 1883 had the same effect over 5 years. Blew half the island into the sky.

Neo Conscious
Reply to  Steve Case
December 31, 2020 8:02 am

Yes, like so many of the misguided ideas of environmentalists, it’s a recipe for disaster. Their obsession over global warming as our greatest threat is dubious if not laughable, for the IPCC predicts the worst feature of warming will be only a very gradual rise in ocean levels over the next century. Faster plant growth is a far more significant feature of rising CO2 levels than warming, and they never mention this because it is mostly a good thing. 

However, one negative feature of faster plant growth is a rise in the number and severity of wildfires due to excessive fuel buildup and overly restrictive regulations on attempts to manage this risk. If better forest management and fire prevention aren’t actively promoted, smoke levels may rise to a level that results in atmospheric cooling and could even result in the far greater threat of a new ice age.

Reply to  Neo Conscious
December 31, 2020 9:32 am

“…one negative feature of faster plant growth is a rise in the number and severity of wildfires due to excessive fuel buildup…”

Hmmm, never gave that one any thought. Factoids like that are always welcome, but it’s up for grabs if our leftist friends in the press (Is there any other kind?) will report that. Probably not as I haven’t seen it so far.

Ian W
Reply to  Neo Conscious
December 31, 2020 12:01 pm

If you go to temperature.global you will see:

The Earth’s Temperature

Currently: 57.2°F/14°C

Deviation: 0°F/0°C

What global warming?
What climate emergency?

Seems that just the thought was enough to cool the earth back to 14C

Russ R.
December 29, 2020 11:05 pm

Where is the original James Bond, when we need him?

Photios
Reply to  Russ R.
December 30, 2020 5:56 am

Sadly, Big Tam’s deid… 🙁

Reply to  Russ R.
December 30, 2020 8:36 am

New Bondian villain, Ernest Stavro Gates.

Kpar
Reply to  Robert Austin
December 30, 2020 12:49 pm

I thought that was “Ernst”. You got the last name right, though.

Kevin R.
Reply to  Russ R.
December 30, 2020 1:03 pm

It is definitely evil villain stuff. If Hollywood had any talent this would make a great movie fitting of our time. It certainly makes for a frightening reality.

December 29, 2020 11:16 pm

Of all the issues that could start WW3, this has to be at the top of the list.

saveenergy
Reply to  Phil Salmon
December 30, 2020 12:22 am

No need for WW3 …
a few well placed assassinations would do

Reply to  Phil Salmon
December 30, 2020 4:04 am

Exactly, because the Russians want it to warm their frozen land.

Kpar
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
December 30, 2020 12:51 pm

There’s a reason Canadians do not (much) worry about Global Warming…

They’ve got Justin for that, he’s got it covered.

Ian W
Reply to  Phil Salmon
December 31, 2020 12:03 pm

You missed it then

WW3 has been in progress for a few years and the final battle is about to happen just as the general on the USA side has been replaced by someone who has [been paid to wave] a white flag.

Admin
December 29, 2020 11:42 pm

The sun dimming thing is one of the dumbest green plans ever.

A study in 2018 of the impact of volcanic eruptions on crop yields showed injecting aerosols into the upper atmosphere reduces plant growth. Turns out plants need sunlight.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/08/09/climate-geoengineering-oops-injecting-sulphates-into-the-stratosphere-to-reflect-sunlight-would-starve-crops-of-sunlight/

Loydo
Reply to  Eric Worrall
December 30, 2020 12:42 am

“A study…” Funny how a “study” based 100% on modelling can suddenly become credible, acceptable evidence if it supports the right narrative. Don’t get me wrong, I think their modelling, like most modelling, is probably pretty accurate. You obviously do too Eric.

fred250
Reply to  Loydo
December 30, 2020 1:10 am

OMG, the same Loy idiot that can’t produce a skerrick of evidence of warming by atmospheric CO2..

……. thinks plant don’t need sunlight.

How much more PERSISTENTLY DUMB and BLATANTLY IGNORANT can a person or trollette get !!!

fred250
Reply to  Loydo
December 30, 2020 1:19 am

What is it about plant BIOLOGY that you don’t comprehend, loopy-loy ?

Increase atmospheric CO2 => Increase plant growth

Decrease sunshine => Decrease plant growth

Please try not to show your ignorance of EVERY SINGLE FACET OF EXISTENCE in every single post you make !!

Bill Toland
Reply to  Loydo
December 30, 2020 2:58 am

Loydo, you actually think that “most modelling is probably pretty accurate”? You clearly have no understanding of computer modelling. I have been writing computer models for almost 50 years and I am very aware of their limitations. If even one of the assumptions used in a model is incorrect, the output from the model is worthless. This is especially true in climate modelling where there is an enormous range of modelled outcomes.

Reply to  Loydo
December 30, 2020 5:17 am

Don’t confuse science models with modelling

BTW, Loydo, do you have any pets?

Photios
Reply to  Redge
December 30, 2020 5:59 am

He used to keep a Triffid,
but it died of veganism…

leowaj
Reply to  Loydo
December 30, 2020 7:07 am

The model can be easily verified. Grow the same plant in multiple different shades of light. Check model against results. Repeat with different plants.

Unsurprisingly, anyone who tries to grow plants indoors knows this problem. Model not needed.

MarkW
Reply to  Loydo
December 30, 2020 8:34 am

What is it about trolls and their belief that if one model is good, this proves that all models are good.
Then again, it’s not like Loydo has ever demonstrated an ability to think for itself.

The Dark Lord
Reply to  Loydo
December 30, 2020 9:38 am

the study wasn’t a model you tool … it was comparing eruptions to crop yields … not modeled eruptions to modeled crop yields …

Reply to  Eric Worrall
December 30, 2020 9:49 am

@Worrall
“The sun dimming thing is one of the dumbest green plans ever.”

Actually, it is absolutely essential to keep the ‘global warming’ narrative alive.

If the climate, on its own, suddenly quits warming, or actually starts cooling, then they can claim the sun dimming was successful, and saved the world etc.

December 29, 2020 11:53 pm

Leave…the sky…..alone!

Loydo
Reply to  Mike
December 30, 2020 12:31 am

um, bit late for that.

Reply to  Loydo
December 30, 2020 12:41 am

co2 is just going back where it came from. There’s no ”engineering” behind it. It’s perfectly natural.

Loydo
Reply to  Mike
December 30, 2020 1:13 am

no ”engineering”?

Hoisting 1.5 billion tonnes into the air didn’t take some engineering?

You must be making a distinction between good engineering and bad engineering.

Reply to  Loydo
December 30, 2020 2:28 am

Scuttle off and find out the total mass of the atmosphere. Then return and tell us what percentage of the total 1.5 billion tonnes is.

Chaswarnertoo
Reply to  Right-Handed Shark
December 30, 2020 2:34 am

Loydo can’t do math. Feelz are important to it.

MarkW
Reply to  Loydo
December 30, 2020 8:44 am

Fire takes engineering?

Reply to  Mike
December 30, 2020 5:42 pm

Don’t you get tired of losing every single argument?
There is a lesson in there somewhere……

fred250
Reply to  Loydo
December 30, 2020 1:14 am

Humans haven’t, until this monumentally stupid idea, done anything but replenish much needed CO2.. We have cleaned up most real air pollution.

Your WHOLE LIFE depends on that CO2, mindless drone

If you HATE CO2 .. you HATE LIFE.

The beneficial CO2 we have released back into the shorter term CARBON CYCLE has not caused ANY changes in climate.

Prove me wrong, empty sock..

1… Do you have any empirical scientific evidence for warming by atmospheric CO2?

2… In what ways has the global climate changed in the last 50 years , that can be scientifically proven to be of human causation?

Derg
Reply to  Loydo
December 30, 2020 3:36 am

Loydo are you a Malthusian?

December 30, 2020 12:06 am

1) Am in absolute agreement with Zoe.
Bill Gates was in the vanguard of sexually dysfunctional young males – boys who lacked self-confidence, any sense-of-humour and were generally shy and awkward in the presence of women.
So they turned to computers.
We can think of a few more now can’t we, esp those who set up the (haha) Social Media.
Pretty well = the definition of ‘Geek’

2) Anyone who has read my ravings on the subject of ‘dirt’ (NO, nothing to do with #1 above), I will say “Yes Mr Gates, bring it on” ##

Why:
Maybe, just maybe and not at all for the first time, Climate Science has got it all completely back-ass-wards.

You (may) know what I call volcanoes = “Fountains of Ambrosia” for plants.
Thus, maybe Pinataubo cooled the planet.
Inside Modern Science it certainly would because Everybody Expected It To
Via the clever sounding and misunderstood ‘aerosols’
Big hand for Lame Handstand for that bit of junk, along with the Truly Epic misunderstanding of Green House Gas

Maybe Mount Potato (how do you spell that Mr Gore?) fed the plants.
Maybe Mt. Potato lowered temps by raising the Earth’s albedo via the extra greenery it created.
Greenery having a typical albedo of 0.4 compared to 0.15 for dry dirt and 0.1 for wet dirt.

Maybe that’s why gardeners around the world recognise the value of ‘Rock Dust’
Why farmers recognise that sulphur is equally as important a fertiliser as nitrogen, phosphorus and potash
Why Scandinavian foresters were ‘disappointed’ when UK coal-burning power stations started scrubbing their flues – forest productivity dropped 20%
A lot of water soluble nitrogen floated over the Noth Sea too.

So yes, pump sulphur into the sky. It can only fall back down to earth and when it does, almost every plant down there is just waiting, begging and pleading for it.
They will reward you by becoming big, green, verdant and lush.
And have more protein inside them
Maybe also they are just gagging for all the dust, ash and smoke as well. Stuff we call ‘pollution’ – in the truly insane way we now refer to CO2 as pollution.

Complete madness has broken out.

(##) maybe there’s more to being A Contrarian than ‘just saying so’

Geoff Sherrington
Reply to  Peta of Newark
December 30, 2020 1:45 am

Hi Peta,
For some years I did practical trials, factorial designs to measure the effects of various nutrients on plant growth. Sulphur was one of the key foods. Yet, in all this discussion about what falls from the atmosphere onto the plant kingdom, I can recall very little work. To me, it is one of the central easpects of plant nutrition, but I cannot learn much from recent work because it is either rare or hard to find, compared with other related topics like what CO2 can do.
Geoff S

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  Geoff Sherrington
December 30, 2020 1:18 pm

Geoff
What is missing in serpentinites that it only supports sparse, specialized plant life?

Ron Long
Reply to  Peta of Newark
December 30, 2020 2:02 am

In reference to Bill Gates “sexually dysfunctional young male-…” comment he is an Asperger’s Syndrome person, identified by many and verified by himself. This condition is now identified as “high-function Autism” due to the condition falling on the spectrum of fMRI studies. Persons so affected tend to be innovative thinkers because their brain patterns are not traditionally constrained. Also, they tend to go off down side roads without proper mental alerts on their part, ie, dim the sun.

Reply to  Ron Long
December 30, 2020 12:41 pm

…or take off school every Friday “In Protest”.
Another idea where the consequences if fully implemented were not thought out.

Derg
Reply to  Peta of Newark
December 30, 2020 3:39 am

Very interesting 🤔

Kevin
Reply to  Peta of Newark
December 30, 2020 7:12 am

Maybe the jocks were on to something when they would beat the crap out of the nerds in the locker room.

Meab
Reply to  Peta of Newark
December 30, 2020 9:26 am

According to your “dirt” theory, you would expect a dramatic greening of the earth soon after the ash from a huge volcanic eruption has settled across the planet Hasn’t been a big effect. In fact, there’s often a (temporary) reduction in crop yields from reduced sunlight and temperatures after the largest ash particles have settled but before the smallest particles have cleared. Your “dirt” theory doesn’t seem to hold up.

Steve Wood
December 30, 2020 12:18 am

The only Dim thing about this project is BG himself!

December 30, 2020 12:27 am

That should make solar panels more efficient

Kevin
Reply to  Redge
December 30, 2020 7:17 am

Doesn’t an attempt to dim incoming sunlight imply that the sun actually has an effect on climate?

Reply to  Kevin
December 30, 2020 7:23 am

In fairness, Kevin, I don’t think anybody is saying the sun has no effect on climate.

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  Redge
December 30, 2020 1:21 pm

The official position of advocates of ‘The Cause,’ is that small variations in solar insolation has negligible effect on the climate and therefore the ‘Control Knob’ has to be CO2.

a happy little debunker
December 30, 2020 12:42 am

The Simpsons did it…

Alex
December 30, 2020 12:53 am

These “geoengineers” must be jailed.
Other countries should destroy their apparatus.

atticman
Reply to  Alex
December 30, 2020 2:25 am

Errr… but isn’t dimming the sun going to reduce the output of all those ‘essential’ solar panels?

Vuk
December 30, 2020 1:59 am

Depriving people wherever they are especially those who live in high latitudes even of a small amount of natural sunshine is interfering with their human rights. Human rights warriors stand up, be counted and take your fight to Gate’s gates !

Ed Zuiderwijk
December 30, 2020 2:05 am

In criminal history this must be unique: the culprit announcing he is going to perpetrate a crime against humanity.

Richard M
Reply to  Ed Zuiderwijk
December 30, 2020 7:54 am

I do believe this type of activity could easily be considered terrorism. Any plans along these lines should lead to his arrest.

December 30, 2020 2:07 am

He is mad.

Notanacademic
December 30, 2020 2:12 am

This could actually be a brilliant idea, if you want to reduce the global population to 300 million. Sarc

fretslider
December 30, 2020 2:25 am

…powered by Microsoft Joke…

Reply to  fretslider
December 30, 2020 4:27 am

Microsoft Woke

Chaswarnertoo
December 30, 2020 2:32 am

Irreversible géoengineering, what could possibly go wrong? Glaciation!
Try solar powered cloud making ships in the Pacific, totally reversible in two weeks. Just switch them off.

Harry Passfield
December 30, 2020 3:39 am

As much as I like Chinese food I don’t see that flooding the world with Dim Sun is the answer.
(then again, it could be a case of Yuk Sung)

Sara
December 30, 2020 4:52 am

Someone tell that dipstick Gates that you don’t mess with Mother Nature. She’s easily annoyed.

Does he WANT an ice age?

This is where Mother Nature says, “Be careful what you wish for, you might get it” and then she turns up and smacks that useless idiot up side his head.

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