Only the other day this site reported on the news that some scientists are being provided with taxpayer funds to bankroll a project to suck carbon out of the sea in a bizarre BBC story that confused carbon and carbon dioxide.
It seems that’s not the only such initiative to enjoy the benefits of taxpayer funds. The Telegraph has a story about the imminent announcement by the Government to give the go ahead for experiments to blot out the Sun. The £50 million provided makes the £3 million for the sea carbon project look like pocket money:
Outdoor field trials which could include injecting aerosols into the atmosphere, or brightening clouds to reflect sunshine, are being considered by scientists as a way to prevent runaway climate change.
Aria, the Government’s advanced research and invention funding agency, has set aside £50 million for projects, which will be announced in the coming weeks.
Prof Mark Symes, the Programme Director for Aria (Advanced Research and Invention Agency), said there would be “small controlled outdoor experiments on particular approaches”.
Of course, the danger is side effects, but such concerns are apparently brushed aside in the race to collapse carbon dioxide levels:
Geoengineering projects which seek to artificially alter the climate have proven controversial, with critics arguing they could bring damaging knock-on effects, as well as being an unhelpful distraction from lowering emissions.
However, scientists are increasingly concerned that carbon dioxide levels are not falling fast enough and that further action may be needed to prevent catastrophic warming.
One major area of research is Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM), which includes Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) whereby tiny particles are released into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight.
Another potential solution is Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) in which ships would spray sea-salt particles into the sky to enhance the reflectivity of low-lying clouds.
Believe it or not, scientists have been ironically inspired by pollution from shipping fumes which in the past caused cooling, but now their sulphur dioxide emissions have been controlled, global warming has increased. Undaunted by the evidence that meddling with such matters might make things worse, the next plan is to start deliberately inserting reflective particles into cloud:
Prof Jim Haywood, of Atmospheric Science, at the University of Exeter, said: “If you inject small particles into clouds, you can brighten them hence reflecting more sunlight back out to space.
“How do we know this could work? Well there are a couple of very strong pieces of evidence.
“Ship emissions from the smoke stack into the marine environment lead to bright lines in clouds over the ocean.
“Then there was a volcanic eruption in Iceland in 2014 which spilled out a lot of sulphur dioxide. What this does is it brightens clouds and cools the planet. What we need to do is some form of field experiments.”
Cirrus clouds and aviation are on the radar:
Other ideas for geoengineering include seeding cirrus clouds to allow more heat to escape into space. Currently, the wispy high-altitude clouds act as a blanket, trapping in heat.
Dr Sebastian Eastham, a senior lecturer in Sustainable Aviation at Imperial College London, said: “Every time you fly, sulphur, which is naturally present in jet fuel, is emitted into the lower most stratosphere causing a small cooling effect.
“Similarly, aircraft contrails cause accidental cirrus cloud modification but in this case accidentally causing, rather than preventing or thinning, cirrus clouds.
“This points to the fact that it’s theoretically possible (to cool the planet) with current day technology but there are many practical questions that would need to be answered before they could be done at scale.”
Let’s hope he reads Snowpiercer first, the plot of which is summarised on Wikipedia here:
In 2014, an attempt to stop climate change via stratospheric aerosol injection catastrophically backfires, creating a new ice age that destroys much of life on Earth. For 17 years, the remnants of humanity shelter in a state-of-the-art self-sustaining circumnavigational train, the Snowpiercer, run by reclusive transportation magnate Wilford. The passengers on the train are segregated, with the elite in the extravagant front cars and the poor crammed into squalid tail compartments overseen by armed guards.
Another story worth reading is Arthur C. Clarke’s History Lesson (1949) when the Earth enters a final ice age and the human race is wiped out. One of the strange things about science fiction is that it so often turns out to be true.
The Telegraph’s story is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: BBC Radio 4’s World at One today featured Dr Sebastian Eastham (see above). Presenter Sarah Montague challenged him on unintended side effects. You can listen to the interview here. Spin through to 35:15 in.
Stop Press 2: Were the scientists inspired by the Simpsons and Monty Burns’s Sun Blocker?
The Sun Blocker was a device developed by Charles Montgomery Burns. As the name suggests, it was created to blot out the sun outside, in order to ensure Mr Burns’s electricity was sold in a monopoly, covering Springfield in perpetual darkness otherwise.
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Yes, it’s a double.
Morning
Very kind.
“Is the death toll of the vaccines becoming impossible to ignore?” The question seems well overdue.
But it can be ignored a while yet, at least until R V U becomes passé.
Mask Formation Psychosis
Nothing suggests mass formation psychosis like a legion of lurching mask zombies.
If a narrative is distributed through the mass media, indicating the object of anxiety – the invisible coronavirus, and providing a strategy for dealing with it – mask-wearing, then the mass is overly willing to direct its psychological energy towards complying with the strategy. A new form of social bond is forged.
Masks have been used throughout history in ritual to ward away evil spirits. Sometimes the masks are worn to transform the identity to that of the being represented by the mask. Other times the masks themselves represent the diseases that cause the sickness.
People were tricked and coerced on mass to wear masks that they were led to believe would ward away an evil spirit. In fact, they were having their identity assimilated into a mask-formation psychosis in an imposed ritual of compliance intended to wear away at empathy and autonomy.
When Logic and Proportion have Fallen Sloppy Dead
https://hughboone.substack.com/p/covax-through-the-looking-glass-part?s=w
There seem to be different types who still wear masks:
There are people who run businesses who are still insisting that their staff wear masks, and still have all the paraphernalia in place, including ludicrous “…for your safety, and the safety of our staff…” notices. The staff are on the receiving end of coercive regular memos. It’s a living hell, and the sooner someone cracks down on it, the better. Some hopes!
I encountered such a business yesterday. All staff masked and wearing ‘2m Please’ T-shirts. Very sad.
Including the NCS, within which organisations include staff in their comms strategies as useful tools to get messages out to the public – because you know if NCS staff believe something they were told at work, and feel sufficiently driven to lecture friends and family about it, it must be true and serious.
They’re ugly and they look better in a mask.
Obvious choice for 3..
Zombies all.
Number 3 – utter cretins.
Shouldn’t that be the ‘mask media’?
“Masks have been used throughout history in ritual to ward away evil spirits”
Can you give some examples of that?
I’ve heard about them being worn by Venetian plague medics, poachers in the New Forest, at masqued balls, and by shamans and in all sorts of festivals but not really for warding off purposes.
Rolls Royce, among others, are developing what is called an SRM (Small Modular Reactor). Because they are factory made they don’t require the massive on-site installation effort required by traditional reactors. This sounds like a good option for easing back into nuclear as the green scam inevitably goes down the gurgler.
Unfortunately thousands are needed to power the British economy. Don’t get distracted by Boris’ fanciful ideas again.
We cannot “ease back in to nuclear,” We need to go hell for leather and PDQ.
I don’t know how people can be neutral (let alone on Russia’s side). Are the Ukrainians bombing Russian civilians? Did they start the war? Sure, their government is even more corrupt than the Russian government (5th worst in the world, compared to Russia’s 7th) but it’s the citizens being bombed.
Peter Hitchens has a view on this;
https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/
People are neutral about this war because in a grown up world there is no good guy/bad guy binary. There is only those in power, who win and don’t die, and those without power, who lose and die. The Ukrainian people, the Russian conscripts, the Yemeni civilians, the Afghan civilians, Iraqi civilians, etc etc and so forth, rinse and repeat, all die because people far away who have power over them don’t actually care about them.
Neutral doesn’t mean you don’t care. It means acknowledging that this isn’t a movie, its real. The situation is far to complicated to be reduced down to “I support blah blah”. And we can’t do a blessed thing about it. Because we are just like them, its just that we are not being bombed. Yet.
Very well put.
I would add that remaining neutral (or calmly objective and rational, looking for the truth) is far more likely to end the trauma for the people than the feverish virtue signalling hysteria of ‘pick a side as long as it’s Ukraine’ that currently prevails.
People know how these wars are arranged, and it’s always done in the same place –
http://www.youtube.com/
Rats! Wrong webpage.
How do you edit mistakes on this site?
Meant reference to 1997 film Wag The Dog.
If you hover over your comment, there should be a little icon in the bottom left of your post that looks like a flower? Hover over that, in turn, and you’ll open a manage comments box which will allow you to edit the content of your post.
That’s bizarre. I am against a government which is invading its neighboring country, destroying its infrastructure and killing its civilians. I am not neutral between an aggressor and the victims of that aggression.
Never heard you complaining of the neo-Nazi Asov battalion invading Donbass…………
Stop watching the BBC.
I don’t think it is bizarre to think that the aggressor in this war is not only the obvious one. I am not a scholar in war but even I can see that this is a war between governments in which the victims are the ordinary people. Winning against the Russian Government will not solve this. It may stop the obvious face of war so we can go back to our happy pocket of “I’m all right Jack” but it won’t stop the killing of civilians.
Yes. Spot on. Putting money into China by buying a Ukrainian flag on Amazon may not be the answer.
How do you reply to a neighbour who puts on the streets social page they he is thinking of taking in a Ukrainian family. He is asking the rest of us for our thoughts on that.
You say: “Do what you like, mate. Just be sure your insurance covers you for it…” Most don’t, apparently – and, unless you have specific ‘lodger insurance’ you might find yourself in a bit of a jam.
Unless, of course, you don’t want him to and want to put him off, in which case you might direct them to the pictures of the first arrivals in Ireland, which may come as a bit of a shock to those expecting strapping young blondes and their offspring.
Bloody idiot. I feel very bad about people fleeing their homes and their country, the thought alone is enough to curdle my stomach but what safeguards are in place?
Once you accept people in to your home have you got the right to kick them out? What if they challenge your eviction?
Some dozy bastards are going to get horribly burnt through this.
Bozo and his murdering colleagues can put them up. Evil tw#ts the lot of them.
And it’s a situation which does not threaten our interests or serve them to get involved. To incur cost, as we are, for no benefit is madness.
We have enough at home to put right.
So in a grown up world Stalin, Pol-Pot, Hitler etc weren’t bad guys? They just happened to be in power?
“people far away who have power over them don’t actually care about them.”
But who propaganise us to support and side with Ukraine.
Excellent post.
I am not on one side or the other but I am sorry for ALL of the civilians who are caught up in it and impacted by it, with a consciousness in the back of my mind of “when will it be us?”
Yes, they DID start the war – by killing Russian speaking civilians and hosting US/NATO facilities.
In collusion with the Oh! so peaceful EU.
That is just stupid.
I think you need to start acting like an adult instead of an over emotional ten year old..
Correct. It was stupid of Ukraine to kill Russian speaking civilians in Donbass and host bio weapon facilities of foreign powers.
Are the Ukrainians bombing Russian civilians.. yes.. from 2014 after the West’s organised/financed coup. Research the atrocities carried out in Gorlovka by the so called ‘peaceful’ Ukrainian army.. its horrific.. eight years and counting..
https://poorworld.net/Ukraine/Ukraine-Gorlovka1.htm
And if you want a bloody tragedy involving a young mother and her 10 month old daughter to convince you look at the link below. Its heartbreaking. Warning.. the content is very graphic..
https://poorworld.net/Ukraine/Ukraine1A.htm
Yes, the Ukrainian’s have been bombing the Russian speaking people of the Donbass region for years with tens of thousands killed. Where’s your virtuous indignation about that? Not that you ever knew about it.
With around 1,500 civilian deaths since the beginning of the invasion, if the Russians are targeting civilians they are not very good at their job.
Well, we used to be on Saddam Hussein’s side when he was invading and bombing Iran… then later we hunted him down and hanged him.
Nicolae Ceaușescu was fated by the Government, given a State banquet by the Queen, then when his people shit him no tears were shed.
Jimmy Saville was everybody’s darling – then he wasn’t.
It pays not to join the good guy/bad guy game with all the naïve stupids; to be neutral, then you don’t look a fool in due course.
I meant ‘shot’, but shit works too.
There are two sides to every argument.
Damning evidence for the Hallett Enquiry: Fourteen different ways to record Covid fatalities, but almost untraceable. Fourteen!
”People will riot if another lockdown is enforced” like a mangy dog with an old bone, they just cannot leave it alone. There are reportedly 11,595 patients in English NHS hospitals with a +ve covid test result, this is about 1/3rd of the max figure for 2021. So far for 2022 the ONS has been reporting weekly total registered death figures below the 5 year average. So pretty much nothing going on but still they mither on about covid and restrictions. I only hope that when free covid tests end at the end of March we will see a decline in the reported ‘case’ numbers.
Just breathe and they will register you as another ‘case’, which will justify Westminster shovelling more money into the pockets of their friends.
I’d like to believe this headline, but unfortunately I think the majority (still) would probably be quite content, especially if Sushi’s magic money tree starts to bear fruit again. Is it worth braving the Mail website to read the article?
Yes, sadly, I have to agree about the likely mass acceptance of further idiocy. Let’s face it, there are still hordes of people who wear masks for shopping.
It’s a trust thing, I think? Generations of people who have, by and large, trusted the government and done what they are told. But, when they are told that it’s okay to relax the mask mandate because they’re of limited value, and then they see the NHS (who after all are the health people for the country) all insisting that, like them, you should wear a mask at all times, a degree of uncertainty manifests and people cling to what they believe is the right thing to do… and so they carry on.
You might, but the plethora of advertisements and auto-run videos will make the experience tiresome, at least.
Brits won’t riot. The best you’ll get is waving some placards in Parliament Square. And “boycotting Tesco” means… err… “shopping in Tesco” !
The Sun on line: “Covid death figures MAY have been completely wrong due to poor statistics”!!!!
WELL,WELL,WELL, WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT?????
MSM reporting yesterday’s fake news.
Dear Rog
People won’t riot. They will just ignore the stupid anti science nonsense endorsed by Gates / Fauci / Pharma Owned academics.
Ta!
Keep on fearmongering.
Church was down to about 20% mask wearing today, TWO of whom were wearing theirs under their noses. I totally got wearing it under your nose before, but why now????
Inertia?
Oh don’t forget – they are doing it to protect you. This is the best things that happened to a lot of people. Suddenly they have a purpose in life again
Some babies cling on to their dummies longer than others. Some babies don’t have them in the first place.
My mum went yesterday – was given mask to wear on entering which she was told to wear when entering and leaving and when singing the hymns
I told her the virus was a clever bugger to know that that is when it can get people – it fell on deaf ears unfortunately, so on with the covid fear and hysteria and next stop “Spring” booster
Ukraine news:
President Zelensky is to address the Israeli parliament today. As I understand it, the said parliament is in recess and many of its members are away attending to their affairs either in occupied Palestine or in other countries around the world, but never mind that – the point of the effort doesn’t concern “parliamentary democracy”. Zelensky’s speech will be shown on live TV and on a big public screen in Tel Aviv. Presumably the audience in front of the big screen in Tel Aviv will be shown on live TV too. (Think “synergy”.) OK, it won’t be as big as the 1961 Eichmann trial which was screened live to schools, but this is still big – both in Israel and in the world’s organised Jewish community.
Here is an article by Bernard-Henri Levy published in the Britain-based Jewish Chronicle, calling for a “no-fly zone” over the Ukraine, i.e. calling for WW3.
Speaking of Monsieur Levy: somebody is destabilising France right now. I don’t mean on a scale of years or even months… I mean short-term, on the scale of days and weeks, and focused on Corsica. Yvan Colonna’s getting attacked in prison was no accident. The latest is that he is “between life and death”. That is the hallmark of destabilisation. Somebody is exerting serious power here. “I can do what I like. I can make THIS happen, or I can STOP it from happening. So you’d better do exactly what I say.” (Cf. the Monica Lewinsky story with USA President Clinton for a classic example of this kind of operation.)
Somebody’s doing a “Catalonia” on Corsica, mutatis mutandis of course – and there is scope for a much more powerful (and rapid) explosion of violence in Corsica (as ongoing events and the Paris government’s reaction to them show) – and not just in Corsica but related to Corsica, which suits the instigators down to the ground.
Don’t be surprised if there is story soon from Dnipro in the Ukraine too – one involving a “wicked” provocation and a highly “specialist” evacuation.
The Menorah Centre in Dnipro – which is 20 storeys tall and built to look like a menorah candelabrum – is said to be the largest Jewish community centre in the world (presumably excluding in Israel).
Air strikes against Dnipro started last week.
Will it only be the Ukrainian president, Volodomyr Zelensky, who appears on screens today in Israel?
According to the BBC this morning, Zelensky will stress his Jewishness.
So I was wondering whether the Ukrainian prime minister (Denys Shmyhal), foreign minister (Dmytro Kuleba), defence minister (Oleksii Reznikov), or health minister (Viktor Liashko) might appear too, because they would all be able to speak similarly..
Wow! Zelensky wore a cross on his tee-shirt when he addressed screens in Israel today!
The following is from the Times of Israel. It suggests there is a major division among among the rulers of Israel at the moment regarding the Ukraine and Russia. But if (when) a decision is taken it will be kept to – there will be effective unanimity (as usual). That has always been the case throughout Israeli history.
Remember – an events or event in Dnipro (formerly Dniepropetrovsk) could crystallise the position fast. Air strikes against that city started about a week ago.
Apart from the humanitarian disaster it represented, the worst thing about the Holocaust is that it’s been hijacked by the left to be trotted out as an emotional appeal for everything under the sun.
he really is all things to all men isn’t he, “tailoring” his message to his audience – tends to make me think he isn’t a man of principle, but one of convenience and therefore hard to trust
“Most workplaces have one of these characters. And you can never tell if they’re (a) doing this to annoy someone, or if they’re (b) genuinely stupid. The answer seems to float somewhere between those two options.
“Unfortunately for Western Australia, the workplace is the state parliament and the irritating employee has somehow become the boss.”
https://gregoryno6.wordpress.com/2022/03/20/lockdownunder-update-the-interminable-ineptitude-of-masky-mark-mcclown/
Doctator Roger Kirby should be struck off, lockdown is mediaeval superstition, not science, not medicine.
Imagine if the MSM reported daily mRNA pseudo-vaccine ‘cases’ and deaths. Maybe Neil Ferguson (may the fleas of a thousand camels infest… etc) could do a computer model showing hospitals swamped with mRNA pseudo-vaccine injuries and 500 000 death from them.
Then all the experts, Ministers, civil servants, Pharma CEOs, doctors, nurses, others complicit could be put in lockdown awaiting trial.
Sanctions war against Russia is failing. China and India harden their stance against sanctions on Russia
Rouble has not dropped as catastrophically as Biden regime wished. Could not collapse Russian economy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLBC1xXRZp4&ab_channel=TheDuran
People are daft enough to imagine Putin wouldn’t have calculated all of this carefully.