UK Prime Minister is really Seedy

[Uncle Gizmo]

I heard recently that the UK government are going to approve an experiment to make clouds more reflective to stop the sunlight reaching the earth, thereby cutting down global warming…

There are many doomsday scenarios: nuclear war, asteroid impact, virus developed somewhere like wuham…

I am amused to think that maybe it's Gordon Brown who brings about the total destruction of the human race!

UK Government-Backed Solar Geoengineering Research (2025):
The UK’s ARIA is set to approve a £50 million ($66.5 million) program to experiment with solar radiation management (SRM) techniques, expected to be greenlit within weeks as of April 2025. These experiments aim to reflect sunlight away from Earth to temporarily cool the planet, addressing climate change tipping points like collapsing ocean currents or melting ice sheets.

Methods include stratospheric aerosol injection (releasing reflective particles into the stratosphere) and marine cloud brightening (spraying sea-salt particles to enhance cloud reflectivity). These are controversial due to potential side effects, like altered rainfall patterns or ozone depletion.

A separate £10 million NERC program, announced April 3, 2025, focuses on modeling SRM impacts using existing data (e.g., volcanic eruptions) but avoids outdoor experiments.

 

[Pat Hartman]

I wonder if they've looked at the accidental impact on local climate that all the shade grown crops have had on southern Spain. There are miles of light colored greenhouses and the reflection by all that white has impacted the climate. Seems that the sea of plastic greenhouses have resulted in climate cooling.

The Greenhouses of Almeria

www.amusingplanet.com

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

John Campbell on Sun Dimming....

https://twitter.com/x/status/1915794597529166227

 

[Cotswold]

Quite unbelievable. Why would other countries allow us to do this. I'd not be surprised if it was Gordon Broon's crackpot idea.
Although Moribund Milliband is contesting him for cretin in chief. Apparently, he has employed 2,000 people into his British Energy, when he has nothing to sell, not is he ever likely to. To the best of my knowledge everything Milliband started has failed. After getting a degree the only job he could get was as a gofer, or researcher in the media. That lasted maybe 12 months, then off into politics.

You just despair. How do these people end up being in a position of such power and influence? Rayner and Cooper are a couple more.

 

[Pat Hartman]

I thought the problem in the UK was not enough sun. I'm very confused.

 

[Cotswold]

One problem with this is that once distributed into space, if an issue arises, like all of the redundant satellites it cannot be removed. Plus it cannot be tested first. It will be probably crazy ideas like this that will destroy the planet. Let's face it: when exactly has a politician ever understood consequences, or responsibility? Not a man-jack of them could start a business and avoid bankruptcy.

We are happily polluting the rivers and oceans and have been since the start of time. Now we are well into polluting the space around our planet with the same carelessness. Musk and others have permission to send thousands of satellites into near space.

Back in the 60s the USA decided that it would be a great idea to surround the Earth with copper pins. The Project West Ford.

See: Why did the United States launch nearly 500 million copper needles into space in the 1960s?What is the truth?

Project West Ford - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

Musk and others have permission to send thousands of satellites into near space.

There are currently around 6000 musk satellites in low earth orbit which I think is around 400 miles... There are plans to put up to 40,000 satellites into orbit...

This is an apparently terrifying figure to many people, however, there are around 10,000 aircraft flying at any one time and they are usually concentrated in air corridors and around airports. In other words, near conurbations... But people rarely see an aircraft, even though at 6 mi high and travelling at 300 mph you can occasionally see their contrails but no one hardly notices them... Aeroplanes have a very thin shell to operate in. It has to be over a certain height where the air is thinner and promotes higher speeds through less air friction... The satellites operate in similar shells but there is no restriction on The number of shells The satellites can be stacked in. I understand that the satellites can also maintain their orbit with ion thrusters basically powered by solar power. But they are designed to Re-Enter the atmosphere and break up at the end of their useful life.... I'm sure they are replaced by more and more advanced satellites on practically every launch! I suspect it won't be long. Maybe 4, or 5 years when there will be special missions to recover And or refuel the satellites so that they do not re-enter the atmosphere.

 

[Isaac]

Could we send garbage to space? Would it be a good idea - meaning, would it be better than our current alternatives?

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

Could we send garbage to space?

No, not yet, would need a space elevator....

 

[CJ_London]

Or a very good throwing arm

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

Or a very good throwing arm

They are nearly there!

SpinLaunch

www.spinlaunch.com

 

[Isaac]

Wow! I'm just wondering if it would be a good idea to put garbage in space instead of landfills, all else being equal, if the cost was worth it i.e.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

just wondering if it would be a good idea to put garbage in space instead of landfills,

I'm sure the environmentalists would object... Not withstanding space is infinite.....

 

[Cotswold]

As I remember it isn't long since New York and other cities on the East and West Coasts of America sailed barges out into the Atlantic to dump waste instead of landfilling it. Then other people noticed huge islands of debris floating about hundreds, or thousands of miles away. Consisting of mainly plastic. They then blamed people who went to the beach who threw their plastic bottles into the sea instead of taking them home. Apparently fish eat some of this and we then eat the fish. Some ends up in rivers and rainwater. Maybe they are still dumping waste into the oceans from barges?

Then of course there is the excellent and supadupa Teflon. Which is used in all all food production, from factory to restaurant, to your own kitchen. (except ours) It is on your pans and inside your air fryers and no doubt has a some sort of guarantee but always manages to disappear over time and display the aluminium below. Little doubt that food manufacturing and restaurants will be less reluctant to replace than you may be. a Teflon type product is also used on carpets, clothes etc. From which particles drop off and distribute themselves in use.

Now it is claimed that there isn't a living person without plastic, or microplastic inside them. Same for tap water. Tiny particles of plastic are in bottled water that are leached from the containers with every drink poured. This being the case it contradicts the claim that: "plastic isn't a problem if eaten, as it just passes through".
Today it is virtually impossible to buy any liquid from milk to water, to kids drinks, that isn't in a plastic bottle. Just about every food is in plastic. Including the ready-meals that are often enthusiastically scraped out with knives to make sure none of the food inside the trays is missed. Nice.

Which it begs the question: Is it the additives, or is it the plastic that gives ready-meals their pleasant taste"?
Is it plastic that is blocking our arteries and not fat? - That is apart from coffee that coats our insides with a dark film of course.

 

[Cotswold]

I thought the problem in the UK was not enough sun. I'm very confused.

You and me also Pat.
We have the climate fantasist and nutjob Milliband, Minister for net zero who is spending £billions on solar panels from China. Then the same time another crackpot, who sits at all the same meetings, is attempting to reduce the amount of sun shining on them.

It makes total sense.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

climate fantasist and nutjob Milliband

All you have to do is look at what Musk is doing in the United States at the moment with "Doge" ----- The way for British politicians to wealth and power is somewhat similar --- create NGOs ... create fear and confusion .... and then extract vast sums of money to tackle the manufactured problem and then you can siphon off as much money as you want into your own pockets ... that makes more sense than anything else ....

 

[Cotswold]

On the day that our illustrious leader Lenin Starmer announced proposed restrictions on illegal immigrants. ( starting from 2030 of course )
Some guy took umbrage and firebombed his house.

 

[Pat Hartman]

Some guy took umbrage and firebombed his house.

So did they arrest him and then release him because he only firebombed the house because he was a victim and therefore not responsible for his actions?