Short Takes — 09
Signals of growing desperation, we are considering this.
Using dust from the Moon to slow the effects of climate change. We are now willing to talk seriously about this being an “idea” worth investigating.
The Biden administration is currently reviewing comments from last years “public input” on a proposed five-year research project aimed at a “scientific assessment of solar and other rapid climate interventions” to slow climate change. The input period closed on September 22nd 2022.
If you have no idea what they are talking about, that’s because you aren’t really supposed to notice things like this. This is the “fine print” of government where real “stuff” gets done. The “details” where “the devil” can be found.
Here’s what happened last year.
In the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in coordination with relevant Federal agencies, was directed by Congress to develop a five-year
“Scientific assessment of solar and other rapid climate interventions in the context of near-term climate risks and hazards”.
The report shall include:
(1) the definition of goals in relevant areas of scientific research.
