The New York Times has taken eco-nuttiness to a new level by publishing a podcast speculating whether the solution to fighting climate change will include — wait for it — dimming the sun.
Times opinion columnist Ezra Klein took his new interview podcast of global warming fearmongerElizabeth Kolbert and turned it into an op-ed.
Klein began his piece with a creepy quote from environmentalist Stewart Brand, “‘We are as gods and might as well get good at it.’”
He later spewed that one solution he was obsessed with for fighting climate change was “solar geoengineering … Are we really going to dim the sun?” [Emphasis added.]
Klein’s predominant disagreement with Brand was that he was “overly optimistic. We did not get good at [being gods]. We are terrible at it, and the consequences surround us.”
In effect, according to Klein, we should consider that we may end up having no other choice than to be “gods” and “dim the sun.”
“Dim[ming] the sun” sounds about as realistic as when climate change extremists were advocating for “melting the arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot” to stave off global cooling in the 1970s.
The idea is also just as crazy as when George Soros-funded economist Mariana Mazzucato raised the possibility of a global “climate lockdown” if the world didn’t undergo a “green economic transformation.”
Klein had to quickly defend his position on the possibility of dimming out the thing that makes life possible on Earth by scolding people who only want comfortable solutions:
[A]ny reasonable analysis of the mismatch between our glacial politics and our rapidly warming planet demands that we deny ourselves the luxury of only contemplating the solutions we would prefer. With every subsequent day that our politics fails, the choices that we will need to make in the future become worse.
The transcript of Klein’s interview with Kolbert was just downright scary:
Ezra Klein: You have a wonderful quote in the geoengineering chapter of your book from Andy Parker, who is a project director for the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative. He says, ‘We live in a world where deliberately dimming the [expletive] sun might be less risky than not doing it.’ That feels like quite an indictment of the human race and where we’ve gotten ourselves to with all our knowledge and all our power.
Elizabeth Kolbert: I think that does sort of sum things up. We are in this very deep — there are only wrong answers, only hard choices at this point. Nothing easy from here on in.
Ezra Klein: What do you think of geoengineering?
Elizabeth Kolbert: I very consciously avoided coming down very clearly on that. But some very, very smart people are thinking about it and are very worried that it may be our best option at a certain point. And I think they may, unfortunately, be right — but wow, it’s dimming the [expletive] sun, you know?
Make it stop.
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As long as man has dominion over nature we should be able to do stuff like that.
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We are not fooled by these self-appointed enviro-overlords. Their goal is to enslave everyone with draconian laws and regulations to supposedly “fight” climate change. They’ve told us CC is our fault because we use fossil fuel and the sun is not the problem! Now they want to dim the sun? The fight is against us; our wealth and freedom are under constant attack! The CC movement under Biden has become a deadly cancer that must be eradicated!
He even has the look of a total idiot all he needs is a Dunce Cap
How can solar panels provide sufficient power if the sun is dimmed.
Regular volcano emissions dim the sun.
The greatest fraud in the history of mankind is lunacy personified.
“… the mismatch between our glacial politics and our rapidly warming planet …”
Exactly backwards.
What causes cold? Lack of sunlight. Want to make winters even worse? Block the sun.
Right then can they get Ray an to manufacture a giant pair of sun glasses for this!?
Some people have rearly stupid ideas over this Global arming/Climate Change and so this Dweeb suggests dimming the Sun? From what asylum did this screwball escape from? better call the guys with the Net
A common flaw of climate change activists is they assume we have technology that in fact does not exist. For instance, we do not have feasible technology that can store power on the scale to run a power grid for when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. I’m sure that dimming the sun is way beyond our technology.
We need to just turn off the lights permanently at the NY times and their idiotic communist propaganda.
So now the New York Pravda suggests dimming the sun? Just who is that stupid enough to call for this? Here folks we have Dim-Bulb so dim they work for the NYT’s
If these dim-witted urbanites were not so dangerous, they would be hilarious.