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

I suspect Gates gets no sex from his wife.

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…

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

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

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

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.

Is he trying to bring on the next ice age?

“… Plan to Dim The Sun’s Rays …”

What could possibly go wrong?

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

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

Leave…the sky…..alone!

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’

The only Dim thing about this project is BG himself!

That should make solar panels more efficient

The Simpsons did it…

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

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 !

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

He is mad.

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

…powered by Microsoft Joke…

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.

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)

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.

From the man who brought us the “Blue Screen of Death” next will be his “Not So Blue Sky of Death”. What could possibly go wrong?

I see chinas planning weather modding to make the deserts get rain
wonder what the flow on effect in reduced rainfall for areas further over will be? because the rain they normally would get may be dropped elsewhere , low to no cloud etc?

No one gets thrown out of office as long as the elections in the USA remain fixed.

cooling a planet teetering on the edge of a fading interglacial

what could go wrong

It would be far easier, and safer, if Gates SAYS the project has gone forward, but actually does nothing. He can claim to have “stopped the warming”, while bilking the rest of us out of billions.

Actually Gates has a lot of experience with dampening. Microsoft has decades of experience in slowing down computing power with software overburden.

Would some crooked accountant or investment advisor PLEASE infiltrate the Gates Foundation and embezzle or mal-invest their assets?

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, is the old saying, and is appropriate here.

The Earth’s atmosphere ain’t broke, Bill Gates. There is no need to fix it.

Before messing with the Earth’s sunlight, you should first establish that Human-caused Climate Change is real. This has never been done, so you are operating on a *huge* assumption, which appears to be easily disproven if all the evidence for the benign nature of CO2 is considered.

In other words: You are going off half-cocked, Bill. You are operating solely on assumptions and assertions from others. This is not a reason to block out the Sun.

Two words “Unintended Consequences”

Any preventive action recommended by the Central Authoritarian Bureaucratic State and the mega wealthy, Blue Bloods and the Nouveau Riche that own them, should scare the shite outta ya.

Hold on there Lone Ranger, if a couple of degrees rise in temperature can push us over the edge what will a couple of degrees lower do? Dim the Sun, the Sun does that periodically on it’s own! And the lifetime of Gates or any of us is insignificant compared to the Sun.

An education will not necessarily guarantee good judgement and the ability to become very rich in an unrelated field does not guarantee good judgement.

It can be so cheap to accomplish: just stop desulfurizing jetfuel for airliners.

Gates could turn out to be the biggest mass murderer in history.

At what point does this sort of action constitute a direct and imminent threat to life?

Playing God never works. There is a law of unintended consequences.

I think Baal & Medusa Gates need to f’off and hide. He just keeps painting a bigger bullseye on himself.

We need a giant shiny-on-one-side venetian blind that automatically reflects more sunlight as the surface warms. Changing the Planet’s Albedo from .30 to .31 will cool by 1.6 C…..

Oops we already have that, called CLOUDS controlled by the vapor pressure of water at the ocean surface as that surface warms….problem solved.

Well, I’m all for it as long as it does not make our northern latitudes colder or reduce the power coming to our solar panels.

Why not wait until the airplanes fill the sky’s again? Contrails anyone?

Where is the solar going to come from to power those millions of inefficient solar panels?

So they dim the light from the sun and a bunch of “unanticipated effects” end up killing a lot of people (likely a cold event). Then they get sued into oblivion. (Except of course it will be our government that implemented the idea and they claim its “just weather”)

The Mannians will quickly see this as unacceptable- it might fix AGW without re-distributing income. Mr. Gates doesn’t understand “the science”; the solution to AGW must include stopping people from doing what they want to do, especially stopping anything prosperous and beneficial to humans. We can’t save the planet without breaking a few eggs, you know. So greens will oppose Gates on this.
Gates may be able to convince them that blocking the sun will indeed increase human misery, and compromise- only disperse the sun-blocker at night. A wildly expensive ineffectual program, that’s the American way!

Will this extend the ski season?

Brings to mind the so-called ‘cobra effect’.

I don’t see the problem. If it turns out to be an unmitigated Climate disaster just press Ctrl/Alt/Delete and reset the system.

What could go wrong?

The Gates Plan: The rest of us starve in the cold and the dark.

Note to Bill- why not just throw a 10km wide asteroid at a sulfur-rich limestone deposit (Chicxulub, perhaps?)

Bad idea. Sunlight is needed to grow plants, even if it was practical to reduce sunlight. Present maps/diagrams like this one showing global solar heating are meaningless because they do not show ocean heating and land heating separately. Oceans are about 3/4 of the earth’s surface, and human water pollution dramatically affects the temperature of the upper ocean layer. Human water pollution is off the charts and the effects are obvious along all coasts and particularly asian river: The oceans viewed from space show large algae blooms almost everywhere near human population or some industries. Algae blooms are caused by polluted water. Clean water reflects most sunlight but algae evolved to absorb sunlight. Ocean dead zones are similar: The darker water absorbs more sunlight than clean water. Oceans are 75% of the planet surface and direct solar heating is the biggest effect on ocean temperature. The modern world uses the oceans as a convenient toilet. Now even the Ganges has dead zones. These dead zones are caused by water pollution, not CO2. 

Ocean surface temperature rise is just one symptom of water pollution. Human water pollution consists of: human biological waste, farm waste, phosphates, nitrates, plastics, garbage, toxic industrial wastes from chemicals to oil, carcinogens, not nice, etc. This water pollution is what causes ocean oxygen depletion, dead zones, acidification, algae blooms, and artificial rising ocean temperature. More efficient treatment of sewage and agricultural runoff is needed even if the population is greatly reduced. Plus conscientious economic ways of handling industrial waste. Perhaps the worst untreatable stuff could go to some badlands if it doesn’t hurt the water table. Using the oceans generally as a toilet is the problem. Cheap, efficient waste disposal and water treatment are desirable.

People with too much money and delusions of grandeur are dangerous.

All geoengineering experiments should first be done in a separate sandbox to isolate the effects of ‘unintended consequences’. Mars awaits.

Should put off some of this foolishness for a couple centuries at least. By then a large enough holodeck could just run simulations. The proponents could watch from inside, with the emergency exit lights turned off.

Happy New Year.

Bill Gates needs to be taken down. He is out to kill as many is possible. So many crimes against humanity.

Part of me thinks this is a stunt by Gates designed to show the world he really believes in global warming and therefore, a carbon tax is needed (where the bulk of the funds flowing into government coffers via carbon taxes would come from the middle class, thereby getting the rich off the hook to be taxed at a higher rate).

I notice “cloud seeding” in the diagram.

Quote:

As in the case of all scientific research, the several groups and individuals who are working in this field have criticized one another’s experiments and interpretations. This normal scientific interchange has been unduly accentuated by the glare of publicity which has caused some of those concerned to be more dogmatic than is justifiable in view of the present incomplete information. 

In the view of the public the meteorological world has been divided into believers and nonbelievers. This is an unfortunate and ridiculous concept. The fact is simply that the information at hand is not sufficient to permit an unequivocal conclusion regarding the possibilities of the artificial control of precipitation.

End Quote.

“An Appraisal of Cloud Seeding as a Means of Increasing Precipitation”. Henry G. Houghton, Head of the Department of Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From “The Smithsonian Report For 1951”, reprinted in “Smithsonian Treasury of 20th-Century Science”, 1966.

So, what’s changed in 70 years?

Dimming the sun will reduce the radiation that humans need to create vitamin D which is vital for an effective immune system. Without the sun being “dimmed” those living in the northern hemisphere are largely Vitamin D deficient which in turn means poor immune systems. Dim the sun and millions of people will have to take supplements every day – check to see if greedy Gates is cunningly busy in the area of making vitamin pills.

Simon says you will all look like Seattle weather, no debate.

Gate knows nothing about science and climate yet uses his BIG MONEY to do whatever he imagines the world needs him to do to be our savior. BULL. Lock him up and discard the key.

Man’s been watching too many movies. Ice ages aren’t nearly the fun they’re cracked up to be.

However, I thought that the UN convention on biodiversity had a long-standing (non-binding) moratorium on geo-engineering – specifically with regard to climate. This was primarily used to attack the ocean fertilisation experiments which, in fact, appear to have only produced benefits to the marine ecology. Ocean fertilisation is only tenuously described as geo-engineering as some of the increased biological activity was expected to seqester some carbon componds on the sea floor. It would be just as credible to label agriculture as geo-engineering. As for re-forestation, well that is clearly geo-engineering with the aim of affecting bio-deversity! Whereas the Gates plan is geo-engineering for its own sake.

This brings to mind the old joke:
Qu: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Answer: None, Bill Gates just redefines the meaning of Darkness.
🙂

The reason he is doing this is because the warmanistas will need to show a reason why the planet hasnt dangerously warmed : “Its because we injected our magic pixie dust into the sky! You need us”

Gates needs to be stopped from interfering with nature before he does damage.

What happened to the fusion project Gates?