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It’s finally come to this: in a report mandated by Congress, the White House cautiously expressed support for exploring the possibility of combating global warming by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface. The climate change religion has once again managed to prove there is no limit to its absurdity.“A program of research into the scientific and societal implications of solar radiation modification (SRM) would enable better-informed decisions about the potential risks and benefits of SRM as a component of climate policy, alongside the foundational elements of greenhouse gas emissions mitigation and adaptation,” the White House report reads. “SRM offers the possibility of cooling the planet significantly on a timescale of a few years.”So, I guess we’re back to “global warming” instead of the broader term “climate change” now?If this idea sounds familiar to you, you might be remembering a classic episode of The Simpsons where power-hungry Mr. Burns builds a device to block out the sun.(Insert video of Mr. Burns)While Burns’s plan is nonsensical, the method under consideration by the Biden administration is called solar radiation modification (SRM), and naturally, it’s a controversial concept. It involves altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere to block sunlight. Which sounds completely terrifying.Think about it: how many times has man tried to tinker with nature and it actually worked out as planned? To name just one example, introducing predator species as a form of pest control has often had unintended consequences as the invasive species takes over. Yet the Biden administration is literally open to the idea of chemically altering the atmosphere.On the plus side, the White House insists that “there are no plans underway to establish a comprehensive research program focused on solar radiation modification.”
But the fact that such a concept was even seriously considered as an option is frightening — and climate change evangelicals might just go through with it if they believe it’s necessary to “save the planet.”“Climate change is already having profound effects on the physical and natural world, and on human well-being, and these effects will only grow as greenhouse gas concentrations increase and warming continues,” the report said. “Understanding these impacts is crucial to enable informed decisions around a possible role for SRM in addressing human hardships associated with climate change.”It’s not just the United States that opened the door to the possibility of SRM as a means to combat climate change/warming/whatever. European Union leaders have recently signaled their willingness to engage in international discussions regarding the idea.In a joint statement released Wednesday, the European Parliament and European Council indicated support for “international efforts to assess comprehensively the risks and uncertainties of climate interventions, including solar radiation modification and promote discussions on a potential international framework for its governance, including research related aspects.”
https://pjmedia.com/uncategorized/matt-margolis/2023/07/02/biden-administration-considers-blocking-the-sun-to-slow-global-warming-n1707836Biden Administration Considers Blocking the Sun to Slow Global WarmingI wasn't sure to put this in MNS or to throw it in the Daily Junk Drawer. Actually, to parse words a little, both the SharterJoe Morons-in-Charge and the EU favor a process that chemically alters the atmosphere. What possibly could go wrong? If you believe this garbage, you've not been paying attention. The WH routinely lies.
Sorry, my friend. I beat you to this one:https://conservativecave.com/cave/index.php?topic=132524.0
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Democrats should take action so they can get back to getting Supreme Court decisions they approve of. How might they do that? Investigate justices (conservative only) for bogus “conflicts of interest,” for one. Impeachment for another: “There also must be impeachment on the table.” Not sure how that is going to happen with Republicans controlling the House, but practicality has never been a concern for AOC.
The White House grounds were evacuated on Sunday due to the discovery of an initially unidentified package.“U.S. Secret Service Uniform Division Officers located an unknown item on the White House complex,” a Secret Service spokesman confirmed. “As a precaution, the White House grounds were evacuated, and the DC Fire Departments Hazmat team responded.Curiously, there hasn’t been a lot of news coverage of this incident. This seems odd because the evacuation of the White House and the response of a Hazmat team seems like a significant story. It’s true that the item was eventually deemed to be “non-hazardous” by D.C. Emergency Medical officials, but that’s not the whole story.An audio recording from D.C. Fire Hazmat revealed the test results showed the substance found was cocaine hydrochloride.
Where’s Hunter? White House Evacuated After Cocaine Foundhttps://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/07/03/wheres-hunter-white-house-evacuated-after-cocaine-found-n1707971Maybe Brown did a stop, drop, and run for Hunter? Or USPS did a Sunday Amazon delivery for Hunter?More seriously, it would be a good idea WH security to figure out how a package of cocaine got into WH grounds. This should be a major WTF?!
‘I Predict A Riot’ is a song by UK indie rock outfit ‘Kaiser Chiefs’ from the mid-2000s. I was aggrieved to learn on Twitter recently that this is now “old people’s music”, but the message remains modern enough. Riots broke out in France on Friday following the police shooting of a teenager who had been pulled over and found to be driving without a license. President Emmanuel Macron described the killing as “inexplicable and inexcusable”, which it undoubtedly is. The incident has reignited smouldering social tensions in France, and led to the largest protests since the Yellow Vest demonstrations against rising cost of living and economic inequality. The FT reports that some 45,000 police and various armoured vehicles were mobilised to counter the demonstrations. That’s almost double the strength of Wagner PMC, which successfully marched to within 200kms of the gates of Moscow just over a week ago.France has a long tradition of manning the barricades in the fight for social change, but it would be wrong to think these latest protests are simply a continuation of the Gallic love of a good riot. To paraphrase Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: “All happy societies are alike; each unhappy society is unhappy in its own way”. Most observers of international politics would by now have identified a theme of growing discontent among disenfranchised groups across the developed world who have grievances about worsening economic inequality and perceived institutional injustice, but these grievances manifest themselves in different ways. Readers may recall the situation in the United States following the death of George Floyd in 2020, where one expression of popular dissatisfaction was the short-lived autonomous zones in Seattle and Portland, where protestors occupied parts of the civic centre and proceeded to set up their own anarcho-syndicalist communes.Further popular backlash may be on the way in the United States after the Supreme Court last week struck down Joe Biden’s signature student loan forgiveness program. This presents a new social flashpoint, as it affects some 40 million (mostly) young people with precious little asset wealth and increasingly gloomy views on their future prospects in an age of declining real wages, extortionate house prices and ChatGPT. Indeed, students are a particularly fertile group for fomenting social unrest. Peter Turchin’s Elite Overproduction Theory provides a neat explanation for why this is the case, essentially contending that societies run into trouble when they start producing more ‘elites’ than the power structure can accommodate. In a recent podcast with Bloomberg, Turchin notes that lawyers are particularly troublesome because of their understanding of institutions and power structures. This perhaps informs the political theories of ‘Dick the Butcher’ in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, who suggests that “first, let’s kill all the lawyers.” After all, Vladimir Lenin, Maximilien Robespierre, Marius Pontmercy... All lawyers.
"I Predict More Riots"https://zerohedge.com/markets/i-predit-more-riotsCould there be more riots in the horizon? Very startling to think about.
