Dumbest guy in congress asks if the Forest Service can change Earth's orbit to fight climate change

[John Clark]

On Tuesday Louie Gohmert cemented his place as the dumbest man in Congress (and that is saying something!) by asking if the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management could cure global warming by changing the moon or the Earth's orbit around the sun. Louie Gohmert is of course a member in good standing of the Stupid Party, aka the Republican party. 

The dumbest guy in congress asks if the Forest Service can change Earth's orbit to fight climate change

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[Lawrence Crowell]

Being in E. Texas I am familiar with him. He is the stupidest man in office. He is Gomert Pyle. What is worse though is he reflects a lot of people in this area, who are dumb as donkey dookie.

LC

[Brent Meeker]

Dumb would be to ask if the orbit of the Earth or Moon could be changed to cure global waming, of NASA.  But to ask if the fucking Forest Service could do it is beyond idiocy!  I must congratulate Ms. Eberlein for maintaining her composure while realizing that people with bat shit for brains vote on our laws.

Brent

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[spudb...@aol.com]

I would be asking NASA myself, especially in light of multiple recommendations from climate scientists to perform mass aerosol sprays into the upper atmosphere to cool us all off, or to drop gigatons of iron filings to offset the weakening of the Atlantic current. It's not just screwy Louie who comes up with untested, unlikely, stuff, it's Harvard. 

https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-six-ideas-to-limit-global-warming-with-solar-geoengineering Moreover, since Biden has reduced the hunt for oil and gas, on public lands, WITHOUT possessing any ready-to-go substitutes for electricity and transportation, replacing the dirty stuff, it seems that having a law degree as both men do, shows how little this really means! Joe thinks its ok to save the earth first without having wind, solar, and batteries massively available to switch over, and Louie thinks we can play 8-ball with planets!!  Forget Louie. Where's my perovskite solar cells, wheres microscale solar, batteries??? Where are the democrats who see this as a solution and push this? The answer may be, they don't because Greenpeace and liked-minded progressives, seem to find a solution in a die-off. The Population Bomb is still ticking, or so Ehrlich asserted and lied about 53 years ago.

https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/the-idea-of-green-growth-is-flawed-we-must-find-ways-of-using-and-wasting-less-energy/

See, you can conserve your way to paradise. Move aside Isaac Newton, Monsieur Carnot!

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[ronaldheld]

Is There anyone really so uneducated to believe any human can significantly change any planet or moons orbits??

[John Clark]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 3:04 PM spudboy100 via Everything List <everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> I would be asking NASA myself, especially in light of multiple recommendations from climate scientists to perform mass aerosol sprays into the upper atmosphere to cool us all off,

Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technical officer at Microsoft, wants to build an artificial volcano. Mt Pinatubo in 1991 became the best studied large volcanic eruption in history, it put more sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere than any volcano since Krakatoa in 1883. There is no longer any dispute that stratospheric sulfur dioxide leads to more diffuse sunlight, a decrease in the ozone layer, and a general cooling of the planet. What was astonishing was how little stratospheric sulfur dioxide was needed. If you injected it in the arctic where it would be about 4 times more effective, about 100,000 tons a year would reverse global warming in the northern hemisphere. That works out to 34 gallons per minute, a bit more than what a standard garden hose could deliver but much less than a fire hose. We already spew out over 200,000,000 tons of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere each year, but all of that is in the lower troposphere where it has little or no cooling effect, the additional 100,000 tons is a drop in the bucket if you're looking at the tonnage, but it's in the stratosphere where its vastly more effective.

Myhrvold wasn't suggesting anything as ambitious as a space elevator, just a light hose 2 inches in diameter going up about 18 miles. In one design he burns sulfur to make sulfur dioxide, he then liquefies it and injects it into the stratosphere with a hose supported every 500 to 1000 feet with helium balloons. Myhrvold thinks this design would cost about 150 million dollars to build and about 100 million a year to operate. In another design that would probably be even cheaper he just slips a sleeve over the smokestack of any existing small to midsize coal power plant in the higher latitudes and uses the hot exhaust to fill hot air balloons to support the hose.

If Myhrvold's cost estimate is correct that means it would take 50 million dollars less to cure global warming than it cost Al Gore to just advertise the evils of climate change. But even if Myhrvold's estimate is ten times or a hundred times too low it hardly matters, it's still chump change. In a report to the British government economist Nicholas Stern said that to reduce carbon emissions enough to stabilize global warming by the end of this century we would need to spend 1.5% of global GDP each year, that works out to 1.2 trillion (trillion with a t) dollars EACH YEAR.

One great thing about Myhrvold's idea is that you're not doing anything irreparable, if for whatever reason you want to stop you just turn a valve on a hose and in about a year all the sulfur dioxide you injected will settle out of the atmosphere. And Myhrvold isn't the only fan of this idea, Paul Crutzen won a Nobel prize for his work on ozone depletion, in 2006 he said efforts to solve the problem by reducing greenhouse gases were doomed to be “grossly unsuccessful” and that an injection of sulfur in the stratosphere “is the only option available to rapidly reduce temperature rises and counteract other climatic effects”. Crutzen acknowledged that it would reduce the ozone layer but the change would be small and  the benefit would be much greater than the harm. And  diffuse sunlight, another of the allegedly dreadful things associated with sulfur dioxide high up in the atmosphere, well..., plant photosynthesis is more efficient under diffuse light. Plants grow better in air with lots of CO2 in it also, but that's another story.

But maybe things are improving.  In a report issued on March 28 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said the US should spend at least $100 million on Geoengineering research, specifically on injecting aerosols into the upper atmosphere to reflect more sunlight and cool the planet. Although constantly screaming about how global warming will lead to a world ending holocaust environmentalist refuse to even consider such a solution; even though in the entire history of life there has never been 8 billion animals as large as human beings alive at the same time, they seem to think all 8 billion people can be made to be happy and healthy without changing the overall biosphere one teeny tiny bit, and all can be accomplished with just moon beams or somesuch. But then environmentalists are not serious people. Bernie Sanders for example doesn't even want to talk about such a thing and says Geoengineering should be grouped with other ridiculous ideas that "obviously" won't work, such as nuclear power, he says global warming is leading the entire human race straight to extinction but we shouldn't even think about Geoengineering as a solution because it might be dangerous. That's about what I would expect him to say because Bernie Sanders is an environmentalist, and environmentalists are not serious people. 

Reflecting sunlight:Recommendations for Solar Geoengineering Research 

> or to drop gigatons of iron filings to offset the weakening of the Atlantic current.

The idea is that even a small amount of iron added to the southern ocean would fertilize the production of photosynthetic organisms which suck CO2 from the atmosphere and expel oxygen. And sure enough when Mount Pinatubo erupted it injected about 40,000 tons of iron into the ocean and  a noticeable increase in atmospheric oxygen and a decrease in CO2 was observed. The trouble is every time scientists try to test this further environmentalists throw a hissy fit.  Keeping 8 billion large land animals of the same species well fed, happy, and healthy has never been done before in the entire 3.5 Billion year history of life on this planet, so it would be unrealistic to expect to be able to do it now and do it without causing any changes to the biosphere that might have a negative effect on other species. It's unfortunate but that's just the way it is, you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs.

> Joe thinks its ok to save the earth first without having wind, solar, and batteries massively available to switch over,

You're never going to replace fossil fuels entirely with just solar and wind power, the energy density is just too low. You're going to need nuclear power too, it is after all the safest form of energy production and it produces no greenhouse gases at all. And liquid thorium reactors would be even better than the ones we have today if somebody would put up the paltry amount of money needed to develop them a little further and if environmentalists would just get out of the way. 

 

> The Population Bomb is still ticking, or so Ehrlich asserted and lied about 53 years ago.

Ehrlich's population bomb turned out to be a wet firecracker, the global birth rate has been declining for years. That's what always happens when people become more prosperous and the child mortality rate drops, and human beings have never been healthier or richer than they are right now.

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[spudb...@aol.com]

Sure John, I follow all this stuff on a daily basis. From Rolf Landauer early CO2 absorber stuff of the 90's to more sophisticated units, often far small, to storing CO2 with limestone. I am just duly noting that Gohmert is not fool out there. Look, everyone here is familiar with bringing in a new computer system. Unless things are unusually smooth, it usually takes a concurrent practice to fully install the new system, run both simultaneously, then cut over once the software and financials are seen to be working. This is not what has been done under the ruling party since January. The thing to kill fossil fuels, or create pollution catchers, is to build these, install the same, test, and then monitor. If everything is running excellent, cut over! If not, inspect what is the hold up? Do not proclaim a great success (for no material reason) and then shut down oil and gas exploration. Do not transplant a new heart into a patient until one has a replacement heart. I am a pragmatist and will view with favor anything that works. 

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[Brent Meeker]

Those are examples that assume the existing system is working fine and we're just upgrading.  But in the case of fossil fuel it's waste IS the problem.  So shutting it down is what you do when you're deep in the CO2 hole...stop digging.

Brent

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[spudb...@aol.com]

We cannot stop until there is something at the ready to replace it. You cannot transplant a heart unless there is another one to replace it. You cannot go solar until solar and wind and battery are ready to install. No conjuring no imagining, no reading and article on Reddit and then walking away. I go thru all these articles there, and where is the replacement sources of electricity? It's either ready to cut over, or its not. If it's not, than are we going walk off smiling even though this would kill our species, massively, within a few months? Plan, Fund, Execute, Done. Am I expecting you to provide this? No, we are just serfs in the field discussing how best to plant. For the masters of this society, if they wish to get past slogans, they need to invest, more, faster, in engineering and chemistry, physics, not so much. Meanwhile, oats and beans, and barely, grow, how does it grow? I don't know.... CO2 being slurped out of the atmosphere is something we shouldn't ignore.

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