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Climate change is just global warming in a clown suit. Andrew Yang is just one of its cultists.

Andrew Yang proposes ‘giant space mirrors’ to combat climate change

“Space mirrors would involve launching giant foldable mirrors into space that would deploy and reflect much of the sun’s light [away from the planet],” he said.

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Presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s climate plan aims to get the US to net-zero carbon emissions with a range of new initiatives — including investing in major geoengineering projects like giant mirrors in space.

Like many of his fellow Democratic presidential candidates, Yang has proposed using a wide range of tools to ramp up renewable energy, reduce reliance on fossil fuels, establish new standards on emissions for buildings, cars and the entire electric grid and boost nuclear energy capacity.

However, his 20-year, $4.87 trillion climate plan differs in one way and that’s in terms of geoengineering — the notion that humans should take deliberate and large-scale action concerning climate in order to stop or slow down the planet’s warming.

Yang’s plan would provide $800 million to NASA, the Department of Defense and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to research geoengineering, which includes investigating “giant foldable space mirrors” as an emergency measure of last resort.

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“Space mirrors would involve launching giant foldable mirrors into space that would deploy and reflect much of the sun’s light [away from the planet]. This method would be extremely expensive, which is why it should be investigated as a last resort. However, since we would be able to ‘undo’ the mirror after deployment if needed, it’s less permanent,” Yang has written.

The entrepreneur proposed that America become a global leader in green technology.

“We’re the most entrepreneurial country in the history of the world. It’s time to activate the American imagination and work ethic to provide the innovation and technology that will power the rest of the world,” Yang wrote.

Although most mainstream climate plans proposed by Democratic presidential candidates have a technology investment component, one expert urged a bit of caution.

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“I think that he’s essentially on the right track to focus on science and technology, but I think that his faith in technology may be a little bit misplaced,” Steven Cohen, director of the research program on sustainability policy and management at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, told The Verge.

“It’s one thing to do the research … but another thing to count on it to save the world.”

 

[Vecr]

These people DO realize this will increase the debris around our thermosphere right?

I assume the mirrors would be quite big, and easy to remove if necessary.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

This is the best way to beat climate change AND get civilization into space at once. It's the ultimate project to fix the planet and at the same time requires us to expand beyond it.

I think he knows that, and he would have to do the calculation to figure out if it would be a good investment to prevent loss from climate change to the United States.

A hell of a lot more than 5 trillion, which is about 1/4 of the US GDP. Although it kind of sucks because that's a lot of Yangbux we'd be using for something else. China should pitch in too, and they probably will to establish a Winnie-the-Pooh free corner of space.

These people DO realize this will increase the debris around our thermosphere right?

Only the initial launches needed to start the thing. Any realistic proposal of this calls for the mirrors to be placed at L1 and for the use of space manufacturing to assist in the assembly.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

First a wall, then a big train, and now mirrors?! What's with politicians and expectational ideas?

The wall isn't exceptional though.

 

[Silent]

I’d rather take the Hurricane nukes, thank you very much.

 

[byuu]

He has to make the plan catchier: "Build the mirror and make the oil companies pay for it!"

Yang 2020. Make America cool again.

 

[Caesare]

I thought Chinese people were supposed to be smart? Wtf Yang? You're a disgrace to your people.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

Putting aside how ridiculous this is: I don't understand why it would have to be a mirror. Any opaque structure ought to do it: it just needs to shade the Earth, after all.

 

[Vecr]

Putting aside how ridiculous this is: I don't understand why it would have to be a mirror. Any opaque structure ought to do it: it just needs to shade the Earth, after all.

I think it would overheat, as there is only radiation cooling in space.

 

[Foxxo]

Climate change is just global warming in a clown suit.

Global warming was climate change in a clown suit, before the politicians re-branded it from "we're gonna melt!" to "It's the extremes that are happening!" after it snowed that one time.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

I think it would overheat, as there is only radiation cooling in space.

Overheat? And that would do what, precisely? It's an umbrella, not an engine.

 

[Vecr]

Overheat? And that would do what, precisely? It's an umbrella, not an engine.

I mean, these mirrors would be blocking a large portion of the sunlight hitting the Earth, that is a massive amount of energy.

 

[Coldgrip]

I thought Chinese people were supposed to be smart? Wtf Yang? You're a disgrace to your people.

No, that's the Japanese. The chinese are the assholes who's workmanship is so shoddy even Somalians would tell them to shape the fuck up.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

I thought Chinese people were supposed to be smart? Wtf Yang? You're a disgrace to your people.

It is smart from the standpoint of helping whinnie the pooh take down American white devirr

 

[Barnard]

Nonsense. We should instead use these mirrors to flash Morse code light signals at aliens. Just as useful and just as likely to work.

 

[IN 041]

This is bait, right?

 

[Vecr]

This is bait, right?

I mean, it could work, sort of, but it would be very expensive.

It would reduce solar heating of the planet, but would not reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, that reduces mental capacity, or so I have heard.

 

[LetterlandMafia]

I remember watching an interview with some academic who was proposing pretty much the same idea, though he did make it clear that it was not a one-stop solution. Carbon reduction was the main thing, using the space mirror is meant to prevent short-term heating - even if we totally decarbonized right now the planet's still gonna heat up as the residual effect of years of pollution continues; this plan is to mitigate the effects of that until the heating period passes.

I dunno how the climate situation's gonna be dealt with, tbh. I dunno why so many people still deny it. Yeah, academia types can be biased as fuck, but when one side of a debate has hundreds upon hundreds of scientists, and the other has a bunch of no-name Twitter bloggers who do nothing but sneer at people all day, I'm inclined to believe the first lot over the second.

 

[Male Idiot]

Well why not build a giant solar panel that harvests the energy? We could make it out of diamondillium, right Flexo?

 

[Tasty Tatty]

 

[Sped Xing]

Bear in mind that communists will take.any gambit to destroy the capitalist economy and pave the way for superiah fyootchya!