Scientists want to spread dust in the upper atmosphere to see if it will stop climate change.
The idea is to dump calcium carbonate, basically chalk dust, into the stratosphere to block some of the sun’s rays with the hope of halting the climate from warming.
The Controlled Stratospheric Disturbance Experiment has been in the works since 2014. The big-picture idea of ScoPEx is to release enough non-toxic dust into the upper atmosphere to block some of the sunlight that reaches Earth, producing a cooling effect to offset human-caused climate change.
The project is being run by the Keutsch Research Group at Harvard University, and it’s getting ready for an important step in its research process: a test flight that’s scheduled to take place in Sweden in June.
The media calls it Bill Gates’ idea, but Gates is only one of many people funding the research and it isn’t his idea.
Risks include upsetting regional weather patterns in potentially devastating ways, for example by changing the behavior of the monsoon in South Asia; on which the water and food supply of 2 billion people depends. an “unacceptable risk of catastrophically rapid warming” if governments started reflecting sunlight for a period of time, and then later stopped.
Research shows that the side effects would be concentrated in poorer nations.
An example is to protect the interests of poorer countries, accounting for farmers in South Asia whose lives could be upended by changes in rain patterns. The total global rainfall would be less.
German science foundation Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung shows how it could all go terribly wrong. It says of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection that “It is unlikely that cooling of the planet could be achieved in a uniform way. SAI would therefore produce regional winners and losers.
In the past few years, scientists have hatched some pretty crazy-sounding schemes in the name of protecting Earth and its inhabitants. From building an underwater wall 120 kilometers long to try to save a glacier to cloud seeding an area three times the size of Spain to increase rainfall.
The sun is the most fundamental source of life we have perhaps rivaled only by water. Besides making Earth warm enough to be habitable, it gives plants the energy they need for photosynthesis, forming a crucial piece of the food chain.
As NASA put it, “Without the Sun’s heat and light, the Earth would be a lifeless ball of ice-coated rock. “The Sun warms our seas, stirs our atmosphere, generates our weather patterns, and gives energy to the growing green plants that provide the food and oxygen for life on Earth.”
Where does that leave scientists in America the right or the responsibility to tinker with the sun?
Revelations 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Mark 13:31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2 Peter 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
2 Peter 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
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