On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 10:05 AM William Flynn Wallace <foozle...@gmail.com> wrote:
*> John, you are judging all environmentalists by a tiny group of > extremists. * > Tiny? I didn't see a larger group of environmentalists lobbying in favor of SCoPEx or The Thirty Meter Telescope! I am judging environmentalists by those who manage to get things done, or rather those who are successful in making sure that nothing ever gets done. They'd rather cry about global warming than do anything to try to fix the problem, unless of course the solution involves a vast amount of suffering, then fixing it would be OK. Otherwise they'd prefer the problem remain unsolved. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 966 Environmentalists claim global warming poses an existential threat to the entire human race, and yet they oppose even exploring the possibility of stopping it unless it involves a vast amount of human suffering. The pressure from environmentalists proved to be too great and SCoPEx has been canceled by Harvard University, who financed it. SCoPEx was a sort of small high altitude maneuverable blimp that would go up into the stratosphere and release at most 2 kg of calcium carbonate particles (just ground up over the counter antacid particles like Tums) and then turn around and fly through the cloud of particles to measure how they dispersed and how well they reflected sunlight. They finished building the vehicle and we're ready to launch it in the summer of 2021 from northern Sweden, but environmentalists made them stop, they claimed that 2 kg of Tums risks "*catastrophic consequences*" the worst consequence being that if it was scaled up it might actually work by reflecting enough sunlight to stop global warming and thus reduce "*the world’s necessary efforts to achieve zero-carbon societies*" and so they insisted there is "*no acceptable reason for allowing the SCoPEx project to be conducted either in Sweden or elsewhere*." Could reduce the world's needs to reach zero carbon emissions <https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/18/1089879/harvard-halts-its-long-planned-atmospheric-geoengineering-experiment/> Since 2021 SCoPEx had tried to find another high northern or southern latitude place to launch their balloon, but environmentalists are really good at finding ways to stop things from getting done, they stopped the launch every time, and today Harvard has given up. SCoPEx is dead, killed by environmentalists. Nine years ago environmentalists, with the help of native Hawaiian barbarians and believe it or not Aquaman, also killed the wonderful Thirty Meter Telescope even though construction was almost half finished. So I am not a huge fan of environmentalists, they just are not serious people. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2FJJMOZHoNbntPWQxnacb3AXdKXc9pNsAp3FvtX1yQTA%40mail.gmail.com.
