Specifically, blowing billions of US tax borrowed dollars into the wild blue yonder;
[The president's new science adviser] John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays.











Where is all of the above?
Wait a minute! We're told to cut back, reduce, reuse etc. They're going to tax the crap out of anything that makes a puff of smoke. And then they go and spread crap throughout the atmosphere? On purpose?
Your right to pollute stops when your geo-particles touch my nose!
From the wild blue yonder link:
How about a summer equivalent of Earth Day?
Call it Refrigerator Day.
On August 15 from 12 noon to 1 PM, leave your refrigerator door open to help combat global warming.
/that should help
Unfortunately, you missed a choice.
"The United States of America"
They have figured out the planet is actually cooling. Global Warming became Climate Change and now they intend to claim victory by throwing some crap into the air and saying "See, it works, the atmosphere is getting colder"
I predict we all freeze in the dark.
The B*stards !
Pull my finger!
I guess this is the magical earth-saving pixie dust we have been all waiting for.
I can't wait to see the future under the O-man.....a unicorn in every garage and a mystical-wish-ring in every box of cereal.
And when those scientifically-illiterate clowns blowing reflective particles into the upper atmosphere trigger the next glaciation, it'll be nice to say I told you so, but kinda hard to do once Canada is under a mile thick sheet of ice. If global warming was "so dire" why is it that the oceans are cooling, the artic ice sheet has pretty much recovered and not only has there been no increase in average temperature since 1998, but the evidence is pointing towards a decrease since 2002. I think the real deniers are on the enviromentalist side... their mantra surely is "what are you going to believe? what I tell you or your own lying eyes?"
They won't have to shoot "pollution particles" into the sky. With their current foreign policy approach, these nuts will screw up so badly that nukes will end up being used.
Hello nuclear winter.
He's nuts.
Proof positive that the whole lot of them are as crazy as a chit house rat. Twenty years ago these same lunatics were serious about spreading carbon over arctic ice sheets to combat global cooling.
Other novel attempts at changing the weather FYI:
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/19/when-cloud-seeding-goes-wrong-cement-chunk-falls-from-the-sky/
When Cloud Seeding Goes Wrong: Cement Chunk Falls From the Sky
The Russian Air Force, during a mission to clear the skies of potentially rain-filled clouds, dropped a mixture of silver iodide, liquid nitrogen and cement powder in an attempt to seed the clouds. This form of climate modification is common practice in Russia, when attempting to engineer dry days on public holidays and special events in Moscow. However, during the cloud seeding operation last week, cement dropped from one of the aircraft failed to fragment when falling through the air, falling as a solid mass, crashing through the roof of a Moscow suburban home…
“A pack of cement used in creating good weather in the capital region failed to pulverize completely at high altitude and fell on the roof of a house, making a hole about 80-100 cm (2.5-3 ft).” - Naro-Fominsk Police when talking with agency RIA-Novosti.
Fortunately no one was hurt, but the Russian homeowner is less than impressed. He has shunned the Air Force’s offer of $2,100 to fix the roof and is suing for “moral suffering” damages instead. The Air Force claims this was a freak accident and unheard of in the 20 years of cloud seeding operations.
Looks like the Russians aren't having any luck with climate changing either. Yoot...
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group "True North"
These idiots are going to f@&
Sorry about that... misplaced bracket....imagine my comment is about what others said above about ice ages and stupid ideas but with much more profanity.
We already do that at Christmas. We call it reindeer fecal material but you call it as you like. The unicorns will have to do it the rest of the year however.
Well on the bright side, I didn't encounter any of the normal ecofascist comments on the article. I didn't go through all 10 pages plus of comments as it was pretty well established after 2 pages that the comments were 100% of the "these guys are absolutely nutz" type. Not even the ecochondriacs are showing to support what is obviously nonsense, but also dangerously stupid.
Hubris. Plain and simple.
In late 2008 I saw an interview with Steven Chu , before he was named Obama's Energy Secretary. He struck me as a closed-minded environmental zealot , and at the time I thought this is going to be bad news for the US and Canada.
Anyone with half a brain need only look at the mess "Cap and Trade" has caused in Europe.
My only hope is that given the string of Obama screwups and the impending mess over the auto bailouts / bankruptcies, even some Democrats may balk at Cap and Trade , such that it is indefinitely delayed , as I don't think PM Harper has the stomach to confront the the well funded environmentalists on this issue in Canada.
Chairman Mo must have invented a new way to pump Chinese pollution higher into the atmosphere. Now, in typical form, he is getting the usual lefty culprits to do his bidding. Next up, an expose on PBS, Suzuki claiming this is the only solution and Saint Al flying his GIII even higher to the next climate change crusade gathering
Love the funny posts, all joking aside though, are these people serious? They really want to release pollutants into the stratosphere to reflect the sun's rays? Are they completely and utterly devoid of any form of a brain? I mean don't get me wrong it's a funny story, but frightening to think that they take themselves seriously enough to actually pull this stunt off.
We're in a fog, driving our car toward a cliff.
In Kansas. Oh...did I mention we're driving in Kansas toward a cliff?
Yup, that is a 1 foot(.3M) drop onto a hay bale. Ooooo.....
Wait a minute...do the people in Anchorage know that Obama's been tampering with their volcano? Bet they won't appreciate that as they shovel the ash away.
What could possibly go wrong?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2423
From 2006:
"U.S. Senate Bill 517 and U.S. House Bill 2995, a bill that would allow experimental weather modification by artificial methods and implement a national weather modification policy, does not include agriculture or public oversight, is on the “fast track” to be passed in 2006. This bill is designed to implement experimental weather modification."
"This experimental weather modification bill will impact residents across the United States not just in California. Many current and ongoing weather modification programs (80 listed by NOAA in 2005), including the one in Wyoming that is designed to increase the snowpack, may be diverting rainwater away from Oklahoma and Texas, two states that are currently fighting fires caused by a lack of rainfall. We have no idea what the unintended consequences of the Wyoming action or other experimental weather modification programs might be now or in the future.
In addition to the experimental weather modification programs listed by NOAA, there are both private and ongoing government sponsored atmospheric testing and heating programs underway in Alaska and across the United States."
I guess these idiots have learned nothing from the Australian cane toad importation. These people are certifiably nuts.
A Long Decline: Seven years cooling at 3.6 F (2 degrees C) per century vs IPCC predictions.
A Long Decline
As seen at DBKP (not work safe)
For the first time in my adult life, I am getting really pissed.
This idiot is making Carter look good.
I think this is good news, because it will tend to prod lethargic political opposition to climate change into a more defined stance which can only be a good thing in the long run; also, it will tend to alarm the soft support for climate change politics that exists among those (and I think there are many out there) who cynically figure that climate change is just a way to get stronger environmental protection and perhaps speed up technological change ... when it becomes clear that the stakes are higher now, that some madman might gamble with the heat balance of the earth to see through their nightmare scenario, then possibly this boondoggle will fall apart under the stress of more and more criticism and defections from the cause.
Of course, the down side is, they just might be nuts enough to do this and as people are speculating here, it could very easily shift the climate into a glacial phase, the way the past two years have gone, it wouldn't take much.
Ratt
Its much worse than that. By the time this is over Carter will look like George Washington compared to the Obama.
This is distresing for Canadians. After all, most of us thought if it got to bad uo here from socialists we could high tail it down their.
Now where both is the same pressure cooker of greedy bunglers.
JMO
"Simpsons did it!"
It didn't end so well for the last guy that tried to block-out the sun. I'm not joking, this is just wrong.
This is f*&^ing insanity. The earth is cooling except you won't hear any of this in the MSM which is filled with the usual climate porn. Perhaps all the stories were written years ago and just get published in the appropriate year based on the IPCC computer models.
I don't feel like living under a mile of ice and I am fed up with having to wear a parka when I take my cat out for a walk at night. About the only good thing that the Obama administration is doing is uniting the opposition to his innane policies which will hopefully make a very strong statement of what they think of these policies in the midterm elections.
Heh... no leftie troll in sight yet. They do tend to stay away from the threads that really put a dent in their mindless beliefs. Must be heck to go through life with an uncritical mind.
Oh Bleet.... AGW denying going on here - I need my daily "relic of a long gone age" compliment to lift my spirits.
This would be hilarious if it wasn't so serious. Can you imagine the ensuing mockery and laughter that would be going on right now if the legacy media was interested? By now obumble would be getting the full dan quayle treatment. But, as we all know, it's not nice to be funny about pres obumble's crew.
If it was only the insane asylum the loonies have taken over and not the government of the world's most powerful nation.
God help us.
OMG! This guy is crazy! Obama can say and do anything. The media just sucks it up. He is beginning to sound as nuts as Kim from North Korea. The world is in such a sad state of affairs.
Does anyone know if Obama was a contactee of the Visitors? Perhaps he like Hilary are just Reptilian space chamelons.
Obama wants to get rid of US nukes. So I'd suggest he give some to the Norks, some to the Iranians, and set the rest off in the Mojave Desert, to give us nuclear winter.
Seriously, folks, the Obama administration and the most powerful Democrats in Congress constitute the greatest collection of crackpots and nutcases ever to attempt to run a country. And, unfortunately, my suggestion in the first paragraph is not beyond possible.
We were in Beckley, West Virginia, Monday night coming home from Hilton Head and shoveled 3 inches of global warming off the car Tuesday morning in -3c temps. Snow on the ground and snow squalls all the way home. My buddy just phoned and said there were 4 foot drifts in Thornbury yesterday. Cold temps all the way into Florida Tuesday.
Where is Algore now and how can these leftist turds deny what is right in front of them!
O it is cooler when it rains, yes? Clouds reflect the heat, yes? Been done dude.
This will all be with unanimous United Nations approval, right? It won't be one of those unilateral things?
Wow... it's past 10PM in the EST zone, and no leftards coming to bleat about AGW notwithstanding the denier-fest happening here on SDA. Evidence scaring the kids, eh. Not suprising
I can only conclude that there is a whiff of moral cowardice skunk smell in the air.
Sad, really. I'm feeling deprived of the supercilious ad hominem attacks equating AGW denial with denying the laws of gravity, as pronounced by individuals who are pretty much illiterate when it comes to hard science (as opposed to the b*llsh*t science referred to as "Social").
Yoo-hoo... lefties... come out and plaaaay
Yeah just when we thought the world could be mch crazier.....
Frankly I always did think Holdren was a first class nutter...barking even.....
Wait until Henry Waxman steps up to the mike....
U.S. Senate Bill 517 and U.S. House Bill 2995
Whatchacallit when one proposes something extreme with the eventual goal being to move outraged reaction closer towards one's true aim? Surely there's a word, phrase, name or easily-understood "I get it" shortcut to that type of political manipulation technique.
The impossible has happened. Within 2 months Obama has changed everyones opinion to ... hey ... that G.W.Bush guy was not so bad after all .....
A caller to Dennis Miller's show made the point that this is an admission that it is not CO2 that is warming the planet, but the Clean Air Act, and its counterparts accross the globe. Think how much cheaper doing nothing back then would have been.