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Harvard researchers want to try to block the sun but are foiled by protests in Sweden
By adamg on Tue, 04/06/2021 - 9:44am
The Crimson reports Harvard researchers who hoped to release particles into the atmosphere to see if they could reduce the amount of sunshine hitting the earth were blocked by protests from the Saami Council, which represents Saami living in an area of Sweden where the tests were to be done.
The researchers are looking at sunlight blocking as a possible way to reduce global warming, not as a future plot of a James Bond movie.
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Simpsons predicted it (again)
Didn't Mr. Burns try to bock the sun?
I don't want any part of this project
It's unconscionably... fiendish.
Block out the sun, you say?
What could go wrong?
I've seen this movie
ditto
Was gonna say the same thing - the exact plot of the movie/series/book.
Can't recall the name just now, but there's at least
one other SF novel I've read where an attempt to reduce global warming by injecting particulates into the upper atmosphere goes horribly wrong. Earth in the wake of anthropogenic eco-catastrophe and, to a lesser extent, disastrous attempts to remedy it, are a whole sub-genre of SF.
Let's not forget the lessons
Let's not forget the lessons of Highlander II: The Quickening.
Didn’t I already read this plot in the Bible?
In the Four Horseman part?
Or maybe it was Moroni who warned about it.
Throwing shade on my parade!
Throwing shade on my parade! Wait until I'm done drinking in the sun!